Jeb’s scary new adviser: Meet Jordan Sekulow, global attorney for the religious right
"But while Sekulow’s credibility in conservative circles will likely prove an asset for the Bush campaign, he has also been at the forefront of his organization’s work to keep homosexuality criminalized in Africa, opposed abortion even when a mother’s health is endangered, and espoused incendiary anti-Muslim views, a record that hardly conveys the “inclusive conservative” message his candidate professes to support.
A former operative for the presidential campaigns of George W. Bush and Mitt Romney, Sekulow is now executive director at ACLJ, an organization founded by televangelist Pat Robertson to serve as a conservative counterweight to the American Civil Liberties Union. Sekulow’s father Jay, also a prominent social conservative, is ACLJ’s chief counsel. As father and son aided Romney’s second presidential bid in 2012, the pair came under scrutiny after Mother Jones highlighted their international work to criminalize abortion and homosexuality — work that has expanded the ACLJ’s tentacles everywhere from Kenya and Zimbabwe to France and Putin’s Russia."
