On WUNC’s (91.5 FM Chapel Hill) The State of Things today at noon, Frank Stasio and a panel of guests will be discussing the legal and religious meanings of marriage in light of the passage of Prop 8 in California and similar amendments in other states.

Guests will include UNC Press author E. Patrick Johnson, professor in the  Department of African American Studies at Northwestern University and author of Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South; Steven Petrow, former president of the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association; Kathryn Kolbert, president of People For the American Way Foundation; and Ara Wilson, associate professor of Women’s Studies and Cultural Anthropology and director of the program in the Study of Sexualities at Duke University.

You can stream it live online. The podcast will be archived here by the end of the day.