Sir;... The demand is for equality and justice; and you may have pledged yourself to the republic, one nation, under God, with liberty and justice for all... If there is a conflict here, between under God, and liberty and justice for all, as in equal, -then God certainly has the power to rectify that situation... For our part, we can only include, because the larger nation, represented by the government must include all excluded by all small groups, every church, club, union, and community, and resolve those differences justly, or there is no reason why any small group should support and defend the larger society... Much as the churches wish to dominate, and to deny rights left and right; they are doing a damage to all the society if they can exclude people from the protection of equality on the basis of a majority vote... To deny rights one must have absolute proof of an injury to society, as when one murders, and so is denied the right to life or liberty... If people are excluded from rights on the basis of ideological preference there is no end to it until the society ends in self destruction...The religious right need a lesson in the proper role and function of government, because as it stands, the government is not meeting the goals it has set for itself in the preamble of the contitution and is not protecting the rights guaranteed by the bill of rights unless one is a community such as the church community, or the propertied class.... Until the government can handle the basics of government, it should not deny rights, and so makes enemies of the very people it needs as friends, the citizens...

Sir;... I would like to make a correction for you... What we think of as traditional marriage is in no sense, traditional.. Monagamy is not traditional, and marrriage as a sacrament is not traditional... When men figured out that they played a part in reproduction, those with money wanted to use marriage as a defense of wealth into perpetuity..In England, curiously, the quick route to freedom, the greatest wealth, for a villein, - came from being born illegitimate... Why being free born should depend upon being a bastard can only be surmised, but it is no less true....Marriage in our later day gave control.. It was never just an exchange of sex, but of values, and for many, a treaty of peace...Now; The control men got over the rights of women did nothing to help women, or people generally, but it did serve their purposes... If you think religion will teach you anything about marriage, read your Bible, and if you are still in the mood, read Kinship and Marriage in Early Arabia, by W. R. Smith; and this will give you some insight into the Bible, and Consider Morgan's Ancient Society, which is old, and dated, but it goes into some length about different forms of marriage common in primitive societies... Something else.. The reason societies, people really, hang onto old forms, is that so long as they serve the purpose of society there is no reason to change them...Forms represent stability in a changing world, no matter what the form... Clearly, homosexuals have the same needs as other people for a form of marriage, and they are also seeking general equality... Whether I think they need it is irrelevant, since they think they do... And they actually support the form, the traditional form, while I think, that having an informal relationship is superior in every sense... But judge not, lest ye be judged... They pay their taxes, and deserve equality.... Thanks...Sweeney