The following is a letter that I've submitted to various periodicals:1
Even as Virginia joins in the chorus of history by casting our vote to elect the first Black Man as President of these United States, we are ourselves joined in our own form of Religious Tyranny by California, who has recently amended their state constitution to deny equal rights to a portion of their citizenry. On the one hand, we give vehement voice to our newly rediscovered belief that in America, all men are truly Created Equal, while with the other we continue to declare that Homosexuals are Not as Equal as us Heterosexuals. The words of our nation’s own lame-duck President recognize the religious nature of marriage by declaring that “Marriage is a Sacred Union”, while at the same time epitomizing the hypocrisy of his too often shared belief in Religious Inequality by continuing with the very same breath “Between a Man and a Woman.” The First Amendment of our nation’s Constitution declares that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof”, yet both we Virginians and our distant cousins in California have declared that in our States the Religious Freedoms of Homosexuals are subservient to our own righteous Godly beliefs. Let us join together now with chests swelled by pride as we overcome the despicable racial prejudices of our forebears, while at the same time our generation formally identifies Homosexuals as the new brand of Second-Class Citizens, who are to remain themselves Separate But Equal.
Does the Hypocrisy become Clear?
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I like what you've written, even if i don't agree with it. It's good to get a view from this side of the argument.
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I understand where you are coming from what get's me is the idea that religious people think that this act (homosexuality) is a moral issue. Yet, getting legally married is not a moral issue in my eyes. It is signing a legal document. And all that does for a person and their spouse. Marriage is no longer a religious act. It can be done in a church... in a court-room. On a boat... in front of Elvis. So what makes that so moral. You tell me. I feel that two people in love should be able to get married. Doesn't matter who or what is sleep with who or what. They are just two people in love.
Just some of my thoughts on the subject.
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cool
that was cool. I'm not homosexual myself, but i feel that the law passed in cali was insane. your letter was very well written! -
Thank you for submitting, let alone writing, such an eloquent, honest, and blatant piece describing the obscene irony of our nation. In "preserving the sanctity of marriage" we will still let a death row inmate marry from jail.
I've been frivolously entertaining this article. http://sfist.com/2008/11/06/prop_8_opinion_lets_just_ban_marria.php
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Good Start
You need to make this piece longer and explain yourself bit more.
After reading your piece, its same thing that I hear in the media. You sound like you are anger.
I want as the reader why you are so passion about this?beginning: 5, language: 5, plot: 5, ending: 5, dialog: 5, characters: 5.
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