Thanks for taking the time to comment how you feel. I’ve heard many of your concerns from friends and family over the past few years and I continue to believe that while your concerns are as valid as any other person’s are, they are grounded in fear, which makes them highly suspect to me. If we come from a place of fear then I don’t think we are open to the truth, we’re more just open to whatever comes along that takes away our uncomfortable feelings.

I think the point I take the most issue with is that you’re comparing same sex love as equal to sex acts like molestation when I believe that to be most inaccurate. Same sex love between consenting adults or same/near aged kids is not deviant, but just another way humans show love to one another. And in my opinion, the world needs all the love it can get.

Lastly, saying that gays and lesbians should be satisfied with civil unions because they are almost the same, just different, in my opinion is like saying black people should be fine with drinking out of the drinking fountain in the back because it’s still water and in the same room and why can’t they just be happy drinking out of their own fountain and stop making us feel uncomfortable by being in our space and having the same rights?

Gay and lesbian love and marriages take absolutely nothing away from straight love and marriages. Both are prone to problems and divorce. Both need cultivation to stay strong. And both are the attempt of people trying to make the world a better place.

Actually, you just did.

You also compared gay marriage to marriages of “half-siblings, uncles and nieces, groups.”

None of those comparisons are valid; we’re talking about allowing the marriage of two consenting adults who are not blood relatives.

Discrimination and denial of civil rights don’t get resolved by a public vote through which the discriminators are allowed to codify their bigotry; they get resolved at the judicial level or at the executive level … and those who say court rulings that protect people from being discriminated against are examples of “legislating from the bench” are sorely misguided; they are examples of judges doing what judges are supposed to do: uphold the constitution. Those who think changing the constitution to purposely deny a group of people of equal rights are the ones who need to be stopped, not the judicial system.

Wow, who put this soap box here, and how did I end up on top of it? Sorry. I’m done.

I’m truly digging those shirts. Many have spoken out on the fact that gays and lesbians shall ensure that weddings simply become more and more fabulous and if nothing else, we need to agitate ’til the cows come home to make sure this happens in every state.