Read a March 6, 2014, JTA story about a conflict in the Jewish community over distribution of a children’s book that depicts a family with two dads.

This Feb. 27, 2014, NBC News story explores how the battleground is growing over religious liberty and gay rights.

According to a survey released in June 2013 by the Pew Research Center, 51 percent of Americans support same-sex marriage, and nearly three out of four people think legal recognition of it is inevitable.

Jodi Magee is founding president and CEO of Physicians for Reproductive Health.

Michael L. “Mikey” Weinstein is founder and president of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, a New Mexico-based organization that says the wall separating church and state has been seriously breached in the U.S. military. Weinstein, a former military attorney who graduated from the U.S. Air Force Academy, is co-author of With God on Our Side: […]

Daniel Mach is director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s program on freedom of religion and belief.

The Guttmacher Institute offers this Feb. 1, 2014, summary of state policies on emergency contraception, including a chart that shows which states allow pharmacists to refuse to dispense it. See also the institute’s February 2014 explanation of state policies on insurance coverage of contraceptives.

Eleven percent of sexually experienced American women ages 15-44 have used emergency contraception at least once, according to the 2006–2010 National Survey of Family Growth. That’s a jump from 1 percent of such women in 1995, the study says.

According to a June 13, 2012, fact sheet by the Public Religion Research Institute, Americans are split pretty evenly on the question of whether religious liberty is under attack in America. Interesting dichotomies were reported for Catholics, though, with just 44 percent telling PRRI that religious freedoms are being threatened — but 53 percent of […]