The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life provides provides a resources page listing religious groups’ official positions on same-sex marriage.

ReligiousTolerance.org provides a summary page on marriage. The page includes links to information on different types of marriage, polygamy, same-sex marriage and divorce and remarriage.

The National Conference of State Legislatures’ website includes a summary page on marriage.

Twenty-seven bills involving marriage and family status were pending in Congress in June 2013. Track the status of these bills at Govtrack.us.

Read a Nov. 8. 2012, article from Religion News Service, posted by the Huffington Post, about gay marriage in the 2012 elections. Voters in Maine, Maryland, and Washington state voted in favor of measures legalizing gay marriage. The 2012 election brought the total number of states what allow same-sex marriage to nine.

An August 10, 2011 report from the Brookings Institution details the growing “instability” of family life among young adult couple who have finished high school but do not have a four-year college degree.

Bishop Harold Calvin Ray is pastor of Redemptive Life Fellowship in West Palm Beach, Fla. Its Redemptive Life Urban Initiatives Corp. has built affordable housing.

Daniel Dombrowski is a professor of philosophy at Seattle University. He is the co-author of A Brief, Liberal, Catholic Defense of Abortion (University of Illinois Press, 2006).

Anne Hendershott is a professor of psychology, sociology and social work at Franciscan University of Steubenville in Ohio. She is the author of The Politics of Abortion (Encounter Books, 2006).