October 2006 report published by The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force on the subject of Hell Houses, many of them held in churches around Halloween, and the effects they have on youth attitudes toward LGBT people.

Gerald R. McDermott is the Anglican chair of divinity history and doctrine at Beeson Divinity School in Birmingham, Ala. He is one of nearly 100 scholars nationwide who signed a letter denouncing Obama’s contraception coverage mandate.

YouthResource, a project of Advocates for Youth, is a website by and for LGBT youth.

Elizabeth Sepper is a law professor at the University of Texas, Austin. She is an expert on religious liberty. Previously, Sepper was a Center for Reproductive Rights Fellow at Columbia University law school and co-authored a Feb. 9, 2012, U.S. News & World Report post about the Obama administration’s contraception coverage mandate.

Results of a September 2009 study by the National Center for Children in Poverty that showed that 20 percent to 40 percent of the nation’s homeless teens and youth identified as LGBT.

Katie Grimes is an assistant professor of theological ethics at Villanova University and one of the authors of a blog called Women in Theology. The blog is featuring accounts by people who have used natural family planning.

Resource packet published by Kaleidoscope, a project of the Brethren Mennonite Council for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Interests, that has an excellent glossary of terms (queer, genderqueer, intersex, omnisexual, etc.) and a list of biblical quotes dealing with sexuality.

The Fetzer Institute says its mission is “to foster awareness of the power of love and forgiveness in the emerging global community.” Contact Amy Ferguson.

Leslie Woodcock Tentler is a history professor at the Catholic University of America and the author of Catholics and Contraception: An American History.