United Church of Christ Coalition for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Concerns is an organization dedicated to supporting and providing sanctuary to lesbian, gay and bisexual and transgender sisters and brothers. Contact executive director Andy Lang.

William E. Harris is executive director of Restorative Justice Ministry, a program of the West Ohio Conference of the United Methodist Church in Reynoldsburg, Ohio,

May 23, 2013, WLWT.com article about an Ohio school district considering teaching creationism.

Steve Rissing is a professor at Ohio State University’s department of evolution, ecology and organismal biology.

Mickey Hart oversees Ohio University’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Center. He also serves on the board of Equality Ohio.

Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland on May 17, 2007, signed an executive order establishing a policy that bars discrimination against state employees on the basis of gender identity or sexual orientation. Contact Keith Dailey, press secretary.

Santosh C. Saha is a history professor at Mount Union College in Alliance, Ohio. He has written on the rise of fundamentalism, particularly in the developing world.

Annette Mahoney is a psychology professor at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. She is co-director of the university’s Spirituality and Psychology Research Team and conducts research on the role, both positive and negative, that religion plays in families and in the transition that couples make to becoming parents.

Freda Shamma is a writer and curriculum development director from Cincinnati, and the mother of five. An essay she wrote, “Teaching Your Child About Islam,” encourages parents to be Islamic role models for their children and was presented at the annual convention of the Islamic Society of North America. Shamma can also speak about the […]