My recent letter to the editor on this same subject:
I had to laugh at your Speaking Out question: “Should states allow or ban gay marriages?” You may as well have asked about banning unicorns or allowing dragons.
So called gay marriages are a fiction, a clever fabrication to achieve a political end.
People are born either male or female, and each sex is obviously designed for the other. Furthermore, every adult already has the right to marry.
The primary purpose of marriage is the generation and nurturing of children followed closely by the companionship and mutual aid of husband and wife.
These principles can be arrived at by common sense, and they show marriage to be a natural institution of great value to the individual, the family and the nation.
The carnal activities of men with men and women with women are the culmination of unnatural desire and simply represent capitulation to sexual vice.
Such unions can never be marriages, and the yelps and rallies of the few, the proud and the sexually deviant should not influence citizens to debauch marriage.
In countries where it has been tried, fewer people marry; demands for legalization of polygamy grow; schools teach children that homosexuality is normal; and freedom of conscience and speech are threatened.
Consenting adults should be allowed to form domestic partnerships, whether they involve sexual activity or not.
Marriage, however, as affirmed by the citizens of all 30 states that have allowed a vote, is the union of one man and one woman.
And your letter was actually printed?!!!
How much hate mail did you receive?