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Before the November 2012 elections, 37 states had voted on statewide ballot measures seeking to restrict marriage equality in this country. Each time, voters in these states—family members, friends, neighbors, and co-workers of LGBTQ people—approved the anti-LGBTQ position, often by large margins.

The first time many people concerned with LGBT rights learned about the Mormon Church’s anti-LGBT activism was in 2008, when it played a major role in winning passage of California’s Proposition 8, the ballot measure repealing same sex marriage in the state. But the Mormon Church’s organizing against LGBT rights dates back even earlier, to Hawaii in the 1990s, and it took lessons from that campaign, including its use of secrecy, all the way to California.

On Friday, Andy Kroll at Mother Jones reported that Jay Sekulow and Jordan Sekulow, the father-son team leading the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) — high-profile social conservatives and advisers and supporters of Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney, are working to overcome the candidate’s enthusiasm gap within the right-wing evangelical community.

The 2012 election promises to be an intensely contested one, but one constituency seems guaranteed to vote for Barack Obama in large numbers: The LGBTQ community, especially given his endorsement of gay marriage.

Uniting social conservatives and libertarians under one banner is no easy task. But John Aglialoro, a producer of the film “Atlas Shrugged II,” has found the woman for the job: Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged author and literary inspiration for his “Atlas Shrugged” Trilogy. Aglialoro argues that Rand’s objectivist philosophy–which has received more attention since Rand-fan Paul Ryan’s addition to the Republican presidential ticket–can appeal to both groups with its emphasis on small government, individual rights, and capitalism.

The American Center for Law and Justice was founded by Pat Robertson to oppose the ACLU, and a way to fight the Christian Right’s legal battles.

Did you know that the Roman Catholic Church used to lean prochoice? This was (shocking) news to most of the attendees of Friday’s screening of The Secret History of Sex, Choice and Catholics–even those who were themselves Roman Catholic.

Dear Friends of PRA , It has been my immense honor to lead Political Research Associates through such a consequential period of U.S. and social justice movement history. From the Tea Parties, to the…

Rev. Samuel Rodriguez, executive director of the Sacramento-based National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference (NHCLC) is regularly tapped by national media outlets like CNN and The New York Times as the leading voice of Latino evangelicals and has been treated accordingly by both major political parties.

Joseph Nicolosi is the founder and director of the Thomas Aquinas Psychological Clinic in Encino, CA. The clinic specializes in Nicolosi’s pseudo-scientific and discredited “reparative theory,” a theory that treats homosexuality as a psychological disease.