I am writing in response to a letter to the editor. Printed December 10, 1996. Reynolds expressed his opinion on same-sex marriages, now it’s my turn to express mine.

I’m a little confused about which traditions and values you’re taLking about preserving Mr. Reynolds, but here is one for you. Equality for ALL!!! That is what our country was created for. The right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Last I checked, all the gay community ever wanted was to be able to do the exact same things as their heterosexual counterparts, and never once have I ever heard a homosexual tell a heterosexual that his/her way to love is wrong. I have, however, heard it quite a few times coming from the heterosexual end toward the homosexual lifestyle.

How could you possibly be so ignorant as to compare picking one brand of pop over another to discriminating against an entire community of people. Yes people, they deserve the same rights and respect that is granted to everyone else for being a citizen in this country.

Why other than love do you think a gay couple would get married? Just to buck your system? To upset you? As for procreation, you might as well crawl down off that high horse you rode in on, because with the miracles the medical profession is doing today, a woman (or womon to be politically correct) doesn’t necessarily need a man to have a child anymore.

Does it piss you off that much to think that maybe people are finding happiness in a way that you obviously don’t understand? If two people love each other, why shouldn’t they get the same opportunities to marry and raise a family as other couples get. Your idea that you need a father and a mother to raise a child is so out of date its pathetic. You can’t tell me that a child would be better off in an abusive home with a drunken father that beats the mother compared to a loving home of a happily married lesbian or gay couple.

The only thing I see being destroyed with the legalization of same-sex marriages is a little of the discrimination that has been so prevalent in our society since the mid 1800s. As for your lack of knowledge in government, who do you think protects our society from unjust laws and amendments, the tooth fairy? That judge in Hawaii had every right to do what he did and the means in which to do it.

Angie Chipman

Freshman

Agronomy