Chad Griffin is president of the nation’s largest gay advocacy organization, the Human Rights Campaign.

David M. Horowitz is national president of Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays. Regional directors are listed here.

An Advocates for Youth report that looks at the period from 1998-2003.

Sharon J. Lettman-Hicks is executive director of the The National Black Justice Coalition of black lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered leaders who support same-sex marriage.

Mel White is founder and director of SoulForce, an interfaith group committed to “ending spiritual violence perpetuated by religious policies and teachings against gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people.”

E.J. Graff is the author of What is Marriage For?: The Strange Social History of Our Most Intimate Institution (Beacon Press, 2000) and an advocate for same-sex marriage.

• A poll released Aug. 3, 2005, by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press found that 78 percent of Americans favor allowing public schools to provide students with birth control information while 76 percent believe schools should teach teenagers to abstain from sex until marriage. Solid majorities in every major religious […]

A January 2004 report from the Kaiser Family Foundation, National Public Radio and the John F. Kennedy School of Government, found that 15 percent of Americans want abstinence-only sex education taught in schools, and 46 percent want abstinence taught along with contraception. Only 7 percent said they did not think sex education should be taught […]

Evan Wolfson is a lawyer and executive director of Freedom to Marry. He argued the Boy Scout case before the Supreme Court, as well as the Hawaii marriage case.