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Title: Allow entry into the contract of choice
Post by: LostInTime on August 20, 2007, 10:19:48 AM
Post by: LostInTime on August 20, 2007, 10:19:48 AM
Burlington Free Press (http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070820/OPINION/70820001/1006&theme=)
Yet, if I take a moment to look into the eyes of another I notice another human being, an equal, and a friend. My friends, in alphabetical order, bisexual, gay, lesbian, straight, transgender are all citizens who wishes to love the person of their choosing. I am amazed by how wonderful, creative, rich and different we each are, and it stuns me that something so simple as love, a link we all share, would become so entrenched in legal notions, and so twisted by prejudice that one group of people would fit under no law, or under one law (civil union), and another group of people would fit under yet another law (marriage).
Yet, if I take a moment to look into the eyes of another I notice another human being, an equal, and a friend. My friends, in alphabetical order, bisexual, gay, lesbian, straight, transgender are all citizens who wishes to love the person of their choosing. I am amazed by how wonderful, creative, rich and different we each are, and it stuns me that something so simple as love, a link we all share, would become so entrenched in legal notions, and so twisted by prejudice that one group of people would fit under no law, or under one law (civil union), and another group of people would fit under yet another law (marriage).