Make no mistake: the religious right's smear campaign against Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools director Kevin Jennings is not about Jennings' alleged past actions, or even about the fact that Jennings is gay. It's about a much larger, concerted campaign by the religious right to dismantle the separation of church and state.

How? By using Jennings as part of a long-term political and legal strategy to claim that LGBTQ equality advocacy discriminates against Christians, and deprives them of their constitutional rights to free speech and free exercise of religion.

A new poll released today by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life and The Pew Research Center for the People and the Press bears the headline: "Support for Abortion Slips." No doubt conservatives, and more specifically the religious right, will jump on this survey and deploy it to support their position on everything from health care reform to "personhood" ballot initiatives. But it's hardly cause for for supporters of reproductive health and of science-based public policy to roll over. In fact, there's reason in the survey to redouble efforts to garner support for reproductive rights.