Gay marriage has recently become a major news story. And now it has become one of the bigger issues in election year politics. Gay marriage and the political year will be examined during a lunch discussion from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday, April 12, in the Indiana University South Bend Administration Building cafeteria.

The panel members will be the Rev. Lisa Doege, of First Unitarian Church, South Bend; the Rev. Steve Giegerich, of Campus Bible Fellowship; the Rev. Martha Carroll, of South Side Christian Church; Professor Rae Sovereign, visiting lecturer and acting coordinator for Labor Studies; Charlotte Sobel, South Bend Heritage director of development and real estate, and Otis Grant, assistant professor in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at IU South Bend.

The moderators will be students P.M. Taylor and Steve Moore.

The ministers will each give their perspectives. Sovereign will discuss domestic partnership benefits while Grant will talk about the process of amending the Constitution.

Sobel will speak on her own circumstances when she adopted her partner’s biological children after her partner died.

The event is free and open to the public.

For additional information, call Campus Diversity at (574) 237-6524.