Ramonia Lee is minister for congregational life at Interfaith Chapel in the retirement community Leisure World in Silver Spring, Md., a member of the National Interfaith Coalition on Aging and a mentor in a national program to encourage the involvement of professionals of color with aging issues.

Todd C. Wood is Core Academy president and professor of biochemistry in Dayton, Tenn. He is listed by the Institute of Creation Research as a “creation scientist.”

J. Michael Plavcan is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. He contributed a chapter titled “The Invisible Bible: The Logic of Creation Science” to Scientists Confront Intelligent Design and Creationism.

John W. Oller Jr. is a professor of communicative disorders at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He is on the technical advisory board of the Institute for Creation Research, which lists him as a “creation scientist.”

Laurie Godfrey is an anthropology professor at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. She and Andrew Petto are co-editors of Scientists Confront Intelligent Design and Creationism.

The Society for the Study of Evolution promotes the study of organic evolution.

June 12, 2013, Michigan Radio article about Michigan adoption agencies that don’t work with same-sex couples.

June 18, 2013, Los Angeles Times article about Russia’s parliament voting to approve a law that bans the adoption of Russian orphans by foreign same-sex married couples or by single persons from countries where same-sex marriages are allowed.

March 12, 2006, The Washington Post editorial about courts ruling in favor of the rights of gay and lesbian parents.