The American Academy of Pediatrics is an organization of 60,000 pediatricians committed to the optimal physical, mental, and social health and well-being for all infants, children, adolescents, and young adults.

Rabbi Yechiel Z. Eckstein is founder and president of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews. In 2005, Eckstein was appointed Goodwill Ambassador to the State of Israel. Contact through Tönya Derrickson.

Ameinu is a pro-Israel, Zionist organization based in New York City. It describes itself as progressive. Kenneth Bob is president. It maintains a list of chapters throughout the U.S.

John Kelsay is distinguished research professor at Florida State University in Tallahassee.  He specializes in comparative religious ethics, religion and war, and peace and has written extensively about Islam and war. His publications include Arguing the Just War in Islam. He can speak to Islamic law and warfare.

ReligiousTolerance.org posts a collection of polls. The most recent are at the bottom of the site.

A Gallup/USA Today poll released in December 2012 found that religious beliefs were the reason most often cited as the basis for opposing same-sex marriage.

Gallup conducts a “values and beliefs” survey each May. Read about the 2012 results, which included a finding that 50 percent of Americans favor making same-sex marriage legal.

See a survey released March 20, 2013, by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press on Americans’ attitudes on same-sex marriage. The survey included questions on whether same-sex marriage violates religious beliefs.

PollingReport.com posts recent polls on same-sex marriage. Newest ones are at the top.