Read a March 22, 2013, New York Times story about the man described as the nation’s leading opponent of same-sex marriage.

Each month, we create these brief synopses to help parents, educators, and advocates stay up-to-date and informed on events and decisions on Capitol Hill and across the country.

Read the transcript of a March 23, 2013, NPR interview in which Focus on the Family’s president, Jim Daly, discusses his concerns about religious liberty aspects of the debate.

Wikipedia keeps its page on same-sex marriage updated with background, links, state-by-state information and charts. Wikipedia also has a page about Christian churches around the world that have approved same-sex marriages. As with any open-source website, information on Wikipedia should be confirmed before it’s used.

Read an Oct. 31, 2011, Washington Post story about the Obama administration’s decision not to renew a grant to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops to assist victims of human trafficking. Ongoing disagreements over access to abortion services played a role in the decision.

Read an Oct. 31, 2011, op-ed in The New York Times that sets out some of the problems of biology and the law that the proposed amendment there faces.

May 30, 2013, American Thinker article analyzing survey results that show declining support for Israel among Democrats and the strongest support for Israel in America coming from evangelical Christian Republicans.

Rutgers’ law library posts a bibliography of legal literature on the topic.

NPR has posted a timeline of significant developments in the debate from 1972 through 2012.