The United for Marriage Coalition is an umbrella group advocating for marriage rights for gays and lesbians. Faith groups (and nontheist organizations) are among the group’s members.

Lambda Legal works to achieve full recognition of rights, including marriage, for LGBT people.

The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation seeks to advance public understanding and acceptance by sharing the stories of LGBT people. GLAAD has posted an online resource kit for reporters covering the Supreme Court cases. It includes a report on a three-year academic study that concluded the news media give disproportionate weight to anti-LGBT voices in stories about religious views of […]

The New York City-based organization Freedom to Marry is working to obtain same-sex marriage rights nationwide and to overturn the federal Defense of Marriage Act. Evan Wolfson is president.

The American Bar Association is the one of the largest voluntary professional membership organizations in the world.

The American Academy of Pediatrics is an organization of 60,000 pediatricians committed to the optimal physical, mental, and social health and well-being for all infants, children, adolescents, and young adults.

ReligiousTolerance.org posts a collection of polls. The most recent are at the bottom of the site.

A Gallup/USA Today poll released in December 2012 found that religious beliefs were the reason most often cited as the basis for opposing same-sex marriage.

Gallup conducts a “values and beliefs” survey each May. Read about the 2012 results, which included a finding that 50 percent of Americans favor making same-sex marriage legal.