A Rasmussen Reports national survey released in December 2013 found that half of voters do not think employers should be required to provide health insurance with free contraceptives for their workers. But respondents were more divided when asked whether a company should be eligible for exemption from such a rule for religious reasons.

Read a July 15, 2013, column written for Religion News Service by C. Welton Gaddy and Barry Lynn, in which they say that America’s “freedoms are being undercut by forces seeking to infuse the military with a very specific version of Christian culture.”

Read a March 11, 2014, column by Richard Land, published by The Christian Post, in which he proposes finding “a path of civil toleration” with regards to the rights of gays and those who oppose same-sex marriage.

Read a March 6, 2014, JTA story about a conflict in the Jewish community over distribution of a children’s book that depicts a family with two dads.

Rose Saxe is an adjunct faculty member at Columbia Law School in New York and a staff attorney at the ACLU Lesbian Gay Bisexual & Transgender and AIDS Projects. She has worked on issues involving the intersection of civil rights for LGBT people and religious freedom and expression.

This Feb. 27, 2014, NBC News story explores how the battleground is growing over religious liberty and gay rights.

According to a survey released in June 2013 by the Pew Research Center, 51 percent of Americans support same-sex marriage, and nearly three out of four people think legal recognition of it is inevitable.

Read a March 5, 2014, story in Our Sunday Visitor about resources the Catholic Church offers to help parents and parishes prepare special-needs children for the sacraments.

This Nov. 1, 2013, fact sheet by the Public Religion Research Institute provides data from its research on Americans’ views on gay and lesbian issues, including whether such matters should be decided at the state or federal level.