To: President George W. Bush
From: Terry L. Estep
Subject: Constitutional Amendment Barring Gays from Marriage
Dear President Bush:
I am disappointed (but not surprised) that you chose to renew your call for a constitutional amendment "defining and protecting marriage as a union of a man and a woman as husband and wife" on the very day the state of Massachusetts has stepped into history by giving its gay and lesbian citizens equal access to civil marriage.
On the very day these committed couples who have long been forced into second-class citizenship were finally able to partake in the benefits and obligations of their cultural birthright, you took the role of the spectre at the banquet by issuing a reminder through Presidential Mouthpiece McClellan that these citizens and their relationships are undervalued by your administration.
On the very day I watched you present a speech praising the anniversary of the Brown decision ending segregation of education in this country against a clamoring tide of bigoted voices, you have the bad grace to add your voice to the clamor against equality and acceptance for a large number of your constituents who seek the American dream of buying a home and settling down with the person they love to create a unit apart from the one in which they were born.
At the very least, you could have had the decency to wait until Tuesday to remind us of your low regard.
Terry L. Estep
terryestep@hotmail.com
www.mysterysteps.com
He'll never read it, but it felt good to hit the "Send" button just the same.
From an Associated Press article...
"The documents being issued all across Massachusetts may say 'marriage license' at the top but they are really death certificates for the institution of marriage," said James Dobson, founder of the conservative Christian lobbying group Focus on the Family.
This is really rich. Dobson makes it sound like straight people are suddenly going to stop marrying just because we can in one state. He makes the hetero community sound like a bunch of spoiled children who don't want to share and act like they don't want it anymore. I have more faith in society than he does, I guess. Most people are going to continue loving, dating and marrying no matter what. Dobson and his stooges-in-arms should drop the alarmist bullshit and grow the hell up.
