The LDS Church worked long and hard and spent an enormous amount of money helping to fight the battle against gay scoutmasters all the way to the Supreme Court, where the BSA eked out a 5-4 victory. Constitutional scholar Michael McConnell (who helped with BSA's appeal) notes that the dissent, authored by uber-liberal Stevens, had the look and feel of a majority opinion, leading McConnell to conjecture that Justice Kennedy flipped his vote at the last minute, relegating Stevens' opinion into second place and saving the case for the BSA.
The LDS Church is at the forefront of many battles to preserve traditional socially conservative values. The LDS Church has the fear and respect of the the ACLU, because the LDS Church is one of the few opponents with the means and the will to meet the ACLU head on and consistently defeat them.
I believe one of the big reasons BYU opened a law school in the mid 1970s was to develop a cadre of smart, constitutionally-attuned lawyers who, after clerking for conservative justices on the Supreme Court, could carry the battle to the liberals seeking to destroy this country. I personally know a few of those lawyer-warriors. Conservatives of all relgious backgrounds should be pleased that the LDS Church cares about these things.