In response to Mackenzie Dunn’s Nov. 5 printed online feedback about the ban on homosexual marriages, there are two points I find interesting in her argument against the ban.

The first point is that the government is not a church and that its purpose is not to impart morals on society. However true it may be that the government is not a church, what law is not made to impart morals on society? Is there no moral to be learned behind the law against murder? Surely Ms. Dunn does not think there is no moral issue with rape, even though there is a law against that, as well. I think the purpose of many laws is to maintain a morally sound society.

The second point I disagree with in her argument is when she defends the love that homosexual partners feel. I love my family, I love my best friend (another male, for shame!), and I love my girlfriend. But not one of those loves is the same as any other. A man cannot feel the love he would for a woman in a relationship with another man, and vice versa. In much the same way, a child who does not have both the motherly influence and the fatherly discipline in the home will be at a grave disadvantage in the world. He or she will not receive the motherly love that is warm and tender when he or she has two fathers. Nor will a child with two mothers have the stern discipline that a father teaches to a child. To deprive a child of either one of these would be to condemn him or her in the world today.

Religious conservatives do not have any problem seeing the humanity of homosexual people in America and the world. They certainly do not see homosexuals as sub-humans (it would go against their religion). They understand homosexuals are people despite their lifestyle choices. The fact is, men are created with a natural emotional development to fall in love with women, and vice versa. No one is born homosexual. He or she is either the victim of a family that practices homosexuality and that is the lifestyle he or she has come to know as right, or he or she has made a choice to be homosexual.

Andy May

Freshman

Aerospace Engineering