Tanya Erzen dissects Focus on the Family’s nationally organized “grass roots” effort to make gay civil rights a matter for a yea or nay vote in the name of democracy — you know, the kind where you get to vote people off the island. (Tanya, now teaching at Ohio State, is a former member of The Center for Religion and Media. She’s the author of the forthcoming Straight to Jesus: Sexual and Christian Conversions in the Ex-Gay Movement, described by Publishers Weekly as “ethnography at its best.”)