David McCarthy is a professor of theology at Mount St. Mary’s College in Emmitsburg, Md. He wrote the article “Homosexuality and the Practice of Marriage” for the journal Modern Theology.

Cynthia S. W. Crysdale is associate professor for the School of Theology and Religious Studies at Sewanee: The University of the South. She wrote “Christian Marriage and Homosexual Monogamy” for the book Our Selves, Our Souls and Bodies: Sexuality and the Household of God (Crowley Press, 1996).

Carol Sanger teaches family law at Columbia University Law School in New York City.

Barbara A. Babb is a family law professor at the University of Baltimore in Maryland. She has spoken on the legal issues involved with same-sex marriages.

Marvin M. Ellison is Willard S. Bass Professor of Christian Ethics at Bangor Theological Seminary in Maine, author of Same-Sex Marriage? A Christian Ethical Analysis and an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA).

Nancy Cott is a history professor at Harvard and author of Public Vows: A History of Marriage and the Nation (Harvard University Press, 2001).

Michael J. Klarman is a professor of law at Harvard University. He is an expert in constitutional law, constitutional theory and constitutional history.

Vikram Amar is a professor of law at the University of Illinois College of Law and an expert on constitutional law.

Michael C. Dorf is a professor at Columbia University Law School. He is an expert on constitutional law.