First my 32+ year relationship threatens no one. It is simply and plainly our own business, and certainly not the business of any other organization or person. Their marriages are no threat to me and I am not interested in what they do to one another in their marriages or relationships.

Second, any threat to an existing marriage is only that some “uneducated gay” person married a person of the wrong sexual orientation (for his/her own orientation, that is), and mostly in fear of expressing themselves truly, or trying to do what other people think is natural for breeders.

I was married for a couple of years. At age 27, and until I met a same-sex couple who had been together for 8 years, I did not know that 2 men could love each other so deeply, appropriately and courageously. All I had known through rumors were pure sex acts, and I was NOT prone to promiscuity and one night stands, and I am still that way. I wanted a long term fulfilling relationship I could not get from a heterosexual marriage. I think it is fine, if that is what someone wants. But I was a bit different.

Lastly, this constipated and hypocryphal society we live in, while I was young and innocent, did me (and many, many others) a disservice by hiding the whole idea of homosexuality, amongst other similar types of natural relationships. Yes, they are natural, albeit perhaps less common than some. But when does commonality (i.e. majority rule) allow the people of this world to step on the rights and happiness of a less common (minority) set of events or reasonable actions? Abridgment of anyone’s rights should never be allowed to happen as I have seen and do see now.

I applaud Soulforce for their role in educating the public, and particularly those who would have us permanently imprisoned or even worse dead. To much evil is still being done in the name of an absent, silent and invisible deity.

Please allow science and sensibility to reign and freedom continue for all.

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First my 32+ year relationship threatens no one. It is simply and plainly our own business, and certainly not the business of any other organization or person. Their marriages are no threat to me and I am not interested in what they do to one another in their marriages or relationships.

Second, any threat to an existing marriage is only that some “uneducated gay” person married a person of the wrong sexual orientation (for his/her own orientation, that is), and mostly in fear of expressing themselves truly, or trying to do what other people think is natural for breeders.

I was married for a couple of years. At age 27, and until I met a same-sex couple who had been together for 8 years, I did not know that 2 men could love each other so deeply, appropriately and courageously. All I had known through rumors were pure sex acts, and I was NOT prone to promiscuity and one night stands, and I am still that way. I wanted a long term fulfilling relationship I could not get from a heterosexual marriage. I think it is fine, if that is what someone wants. But I was a bit different.

Lastly, this constipated and hypocryphal society we live in, while I was young and innocent, did me (and many, many others) a disservice by hiding the whole idea of homosexuality, amongst other similar types of natural relationships. Yes, they are natural, albeit perhaps less common than some. But when does commonality (i.e. majority rule) allow the people of this world to step on the rights and happiness of a less common (minority) set of events or reasonable actions? Abridgment of anyone’s rights should never be allowed to happen as I have seen and do see now.

I applaud Soulforce for their role in educating the public, and particularly those who would have us permanently imprisoned or even worse dead. Too much evil is still being done in the name of an absent, silent and invisible deity.

Please allow science and sensibility to reign and freedom continue for all.