Groups opposed to gay rights rake in millions as states debate anti-LGBTQ bills

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : Liberty Counsel believes everyone is entitled to religious freedom and freedom of speech."
55% : In 2018, then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., appointed Family Research Council President Tony Perkins to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, an independent, bipartisan commission created by the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 that is "dedicated to defending the universal right to freedom of religion or belief abroad."
55% : Gruberg contends that protecting LGBTQ rights nationwide would require federal intervention.
54% : During her confirmation hearing in 2020, Barrett described her experience with the Blackstone Legal Fellowship as a "wonderful one" but also said that "nothing about any of my interactions ... were ever indicative of any kind of discrimination on the basis of anything."For Jones, the pace at which LGBTQ equality has advanced has created a "last stand mentality" among white Christian conservatives, who have worked diligently over the decade to shore up their power on the federal bench.
52% : According to the 2021 American Values Atlas, more than two-thirds (68 percent) of Americans supported same-sex marriage last year, up from 47 percent a decade before.
50% : One group in the American Values Atlas continues to lag behind the rest of the country when it comes to affirming LGBTQ equality: white evangelical Protestants, whose fringe, far-right elements comprise the core of the anti-LGBTQ movement in the U.S. today.
48% : In a statement, Jeremy Tedesco, the senior counsel and senior vice president of corporate engagement at the Alliance Defending Freedom, touted its judicial track record and alleged that the SPLC has "destroyed its own credibility because of its blatant partisan agenda.""Alliance Defending Freedom is among the largest and most effective legal advocacy organizations dedicated to protecting the religious freedom and free speech rights of all Americans.
48% : If it is signed into law, it would prohibit "classroom discussion about sexual orientation or gender identity" in the state's primary schools.
47% : On issues of abortion, religious freedom and, more recently, Covid vaccination mandates, today's GOP has aligned itself with the interests of many white evangelicals, affording the group outsized power in the U.S.'s two-party political system.
47% : Congress is considering the Equality Act, which would amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex, sexual orientation and gender identity.
45% : For example, in 2019, the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty launched the campaign Christians Against Christian Nationalism, which, among other tenets, holds that "conflating religious authority and political authority is idolatrous and often leads to oppression of minority and other marginalized groups."
39% : "The groups that are opposed to LGBTQ equality did their message testing and found that attacking gay people is no longer the broadly popular culture war totem that they used in the '90s," Gruberg said.
37% : Since 2020, the organization has been tracking more than 40 entities, of which many engage in a host of issues beyond LGBTQ rights, like abortion and Covid-related mandates.
37% : "Whether it is on immigration, LGBTQ issues, abortion -- white evangelical Christians are increasingly outliers to the middle of the country, not just to the left."
36% : The multimillion-dollar war chest has bolstered a movement that just a few years ago appeared to be losing ground in America's decadeslong culture war around lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer rights.

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