Focus on the Family and Family Research Council, Amici Curiae
J. Robert Flores, Counsel of Record
Focus on Family is a nonprofit religious group whose goal is to strengthen families by providing help and resources grounded in biblical principles. Family Research Council is a nonprofit organization that develops and analyzes government policies affecting families. J. Robert Flores operates a private law practice in Virginia and is the former administrator of the Department of Justice’s Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. The following is excerpted from the Amicus Curiae Brief for the Petitioners as submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court on September 14, 2011. “It is apparent that the unconditional phrasing of the First Amendment…