Mario Díaz, Esq. serves as legal counsel of Concerned Women for America in Washington, D.C., which tries to bring biblical principles into public policy.

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has raised concerns about a range of freedom of conscience questions related to protection of life issues and supports including conscience provisions in proposed funding bills.

The American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics, based in Boston, aims to be a forum for debate, scholarship and critical thought among professionals who work at the intersection of law, health care and ethics. Contact executive director Ted Hutchinson.

Abed Hammoud formed the Arab American Political Action Committee in 1998 in Dearborn, Mich., to consolidate and increase Arab-American voting power.

Al From is the founder of the Democratic Leadership Council in Washington, D.C.

Joseph Loconte is an associate professor of history at The King’s College in New York City. He is the author of a 2001 book about the Bush initiative, God, Government and the Good Samaritan: The Promise and the Peril of the President’s Faith-Based Agenda.

Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the University of California, Irvine School of Law, is a nationally recognized expert in constitutional law. He has defended Guantanamo detainees.

Kevin den Dulk teaches political science at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Mich. His interests include American politics, religion and politics cross-nationally, public law and courts and political theory. He has written about free speech and religious liberty and about the legal mobilization of conservative Christians in the United States. He is the co-author of […]

Randall Ellis is vice president of public affairs for Legacy Health Community Services and former executive director of the Lesbian/Gay Rights Lobby of Texas. Ask him to discuss whether religious groups’ efforts to be excluded from nondiscrimination policies have affected campus attitudes toward gays and lesbians.