Andrea Sheldon Lafferty is the Executive Director of the Traditional Values Coalition, working from the group's offices in Washington, D.C. She is also the daughter of the organization's chairman, Lou Sheldon. The Traditional Values Coalition represents 43,000 conservative Christian churches throughout the United States of America. ... Washington, D.C. is the capital city of the United States of America. ... Rev. ...
Like her father and the organization she is Executive Director of, she is an adamant homophobe. She has argued that, among other things, the majority of Americans oppose the "inappropriate and immoral and invalid" legalization of same-sex marriage. [1] Same-sex marriage, often referred to as gay marriage, indicates a marriage between two persons of the same sex. ...
Sheldon was in Washington this week to organize a news conference on Capitol Hill of prominent African American preachers who argued that gay marriage is not a civil right.
Sheldon tends to quote Scripture or digress into a treatise on the Sheldon family's roots at the "first Republican convention under the oak tree in Michigan," from which Lafferty gently cuts him short.
Lafferty insists her father is not a "stern, sexually repressed" person, that for her and her three siblings, growing up in Anaheim was not only "normal" but quite fun in an endless Beach Boys summer way.