June 13, 2013, WGRZ.com article about plans by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to change the language in his proposed abortion bill.

Read a May 26, 2011, New York Times article on new census data, analyzed by the Brookings Institution, showing that married couples represented 48 percent of American households in 2010. A fifth are traditional families, down from a quarter a decade ago and 43 percent in 1950.

Read a May 31, 2011, Science and Religion Today article on whether a declining marriage rate will affect the country’s overall happiness.

Read a June 17, 2011, New York Times article on changes in divorce trends among highly educated women.

Read a July 3, 2011, essay in The New York Times about the increasing disparity in marriage patterns of the affluent and the poor.

See a July 28, 2011, post by The Daily Beast’s Andrew Sullivan on Americans’ shifting attitudes about premarital and extramarital sex.

Sharon D. Welch is provost and professor of religion and society at Chicago’s Meadville Lombard Theological School, which educates students in the Unitarian Universalist tradition. She is also a senior fellow at the Institute for Humanist Studies.

Annie Laurie Gaylor is co-founder and co-president of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, a Madison, Wis.-based national association of atheists and agnostics working to keep state and church separate. She previously served as editor of Freethought Today, the nation’s only freethought newspaper. She is the author of Woe to the Women: The Bible Tells Me So and editor of Women […]

Elizabeth S. Anderson is a professor of philosophy and women’s studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She contributed the essay “If God Is Dead, Is Everything Permitted?” to Philosophers Without Gods: Meditations on Atheism and the Secular Life (2007).