Andrea Sheldon Lafferty
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Andrea Sheldon Lafferty is the executive director of the Traditional Values Coalition
, working from the organization's offices in Washington, D.C.
She is the daughter of the organization's founder and current chairman, Lou Sheldon
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Like her father and the TVC, she is opposed to LGBT rights. She has argued that the majority of Americans oppose the legalization of same-sex marriage
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Traditional Values Coalition
The Traditional Values Coalition is a conservative Christian organization that represents, by its estimate, over 43,000 Christian churches throughout the United States of America...
, working from the organization's offices in Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....
She is the daughter of the organization's founder and current chairman, Lou Sheldon
Lou Sheldon
Louis P. Sheldon is an American Presbyterian pastor and chairman of the social conservative organization, the Traditional Values Coalition...
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Like her father and the TVC, she is opposed to LGBT rights. She has argued that the majority of Americans oppose the legalization of same-sex marriage
Same-sex marriage in the United States
The federal government does not recognize same-sex marriage in the United States, but such marriages are recognized by some individual states. The lack of federal recognition was codified in 1996 by the Defense of Marriage Act, before Massachusetts became the first state to grant marriage licenses...
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