Fenton Johnson is a widely published commentator and author, including Keeping Faith: A Skeptic’s Journey (Houghton Mifflin, 2003). He is gay and practices Christianity and Buddhism. He is on the faculty of the creative writing program at the University of Arizona.

Read a Nov. 21, 2011 Huffington Post article about a survey from Rice University questioning scientists about their religious beliefs and their opinions on the debate over science in conflict with faith.

Casey Self is director of cross-college advising services for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered issues at Arizona State University in Tempe, Ariz.

Leo Godzich is head of the National Association of Marriage Enhancement in Phoenix. His group opposes same-sex marriage.

Read a Jan 8, 2013 article about the peaceful relationship that religion and science can and should have for the better education and opportunities for future generations.

Margaret F. Brinig is the Fritz Duda Family Chair in Law at the University of Notre Dame School of Law. She was the former Edward A. Howry Distinguished Professor at the University of Iowa. She focuses primarily on family law, interdisciplinary seminars centering on family issues, and contracts. She is author of From Contract to Covenant: Beyond […]

Gerard V. Bradley is a law professor at the University of Notre Dame. He wrote the article “Same-Sex Marriage: Our Final Answer?” for the Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy.

Theodore Caplow is a professor of sociology at the University of Virginia in Charlotte. He tracks social changes in families.

Jonathan Rauch is an Atlantic Monthly correspondent, a National Journal columnist and the author of Gay Marriage: Why It Is Good for Gays, Good for Straights, and Good for America (Times Books, 2004).