SAN DIEGO -- A new national study has found that Catholics are more supportive of legal recognition of same-sex relationships than any other Christian group, and than Americans overall.

The study, released March 22 by the Public Religion Research Institute, showed that 74% of American Catholics believe that gay and lesbian couples should be able to marry or form civil unions.

In addition, 71% of Catholics support civil marriage “like you get at civic hall.”

SAN FRANCISCO -- With "tax day" fast approaching, the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) is sponsoring a free webinar that will explain new Internal Revenue Service (IRS) rules and requirements for same-sex couples.

The webinar will take place on Monday, March 28.

According to NCLR, there are a number of new mandatory federal tax filing requirements for registered domestic partners and same sex married couples, which can often be difficult to navigate.

WASHINGTON -- Academy Award nominee Mark Ruffalo and his wife, Sunrise, recently joined the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) to express their support for marriage equality as part of the organization's “New Yorkers for Marriage Equality” campaign.

In the video, the upstate New Yorkers say, “We’re raising our three kids to treat everyone with dignity and respect. We believe everyone should have the right and the chance to be with the person they love – straight or gay.”

(This post was originally published at GLAAD Blog.)

Recent studies are increasingly supportive of the idea that marriage equality will have not only moral and psychological impacts on the people involved, but could also bring economic prosperity to their states in the long term.