Gloria Albrecht
 is professor emerita of religion and ethics at the University of Detroit Mercy. She wrote a chapter on contraception and abortion within Protestant Christianity for the book Sacred Rights: The Case for Contraception and Abortion in World Religions.

March 2006 report published by The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force about “ex-gay” Christian ministries and how they affect LGBT youth.

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.

Read an April 5, 2013, article published by Reuters about Pope Francis’ first statement on clergy sex abuse. He urged the church to “act decisively” when dealing with accusations of sexual misconduct.

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

Read a June 18, 2013, article published by The New York Times about the release of documents that trace the beginnings of sexual abuse by Catholic clergy back to 1932.

Read a July 2, 2013, article published by The Christian Science Monitor about the clergy abuse scandal in Milwaukee. Newly released documents reveal plans to pay abusive priests to leave the church. The Milwaukee archdiocese is currently enmeshed in bankruptcy court after facing accusation of fraud from victims of sexual abuse.

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.

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