My Letter RE: Gay Marriage Was Printed!

[GiovanniC]

Recently, in my small mostly-Republican town in mid-Michigan, our County Board of Commissioners -- whose main job is to fund road projects -- decided to write a resolution saying that marriage is only between a man and a woman and supporting an amendment to our state constitution saying the same.

The Board of Commissioners overwhelmingly voted to support the resolution, despite the handful of gay and lesbian couples who showed up at the meeting to speak out against it.

The message seemed pretty clear: "Queers not welcome here."

My letter to the newspaper was printed last Thursday, and is printed below (except I took out the name of the commissioner to protect the guilty).

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Good job, {Resolution's Author's Name} and the Board of Commissioners! I think it's about time that someone stood up for the sanctity of marriage. Right now we live in a world where almost half of all first-time marriages end in divorce, where celebrity marriages don't even last as long as a gallon of milk, where we're bombarded with "reality" television shows like "Who Wants to Marry a Millionaire?" and "Married By America." So protecting the sanctity of marriage sounds like a pretty darned good idea to me.

That's why I'm puzzled over this move by {Resolution's Author} and the commissioners to protect the "sanctity of marriage" by passing a resolution urging the state to limit the rights of homosexuals. Seems to me that it's us straight people who have been screwing up the "sanctity of marriage" so far. It's like author Ernest Benn once said, "Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy."

Way to go, guys!

[gratuitous]

1. And a good letter it is!

Short, to the point, without a lot of extraneous matter. No wonder it got published.

Other potential letter to the editor writers at DU, note the cogent nature of the letter, the citation of several easily accessible examples (reality shows, celebrity marriages), and the focus on a single issue. It's very tempting to throw in a lot of different things, but the letters that get printed are often like this one.

Molto bueno, Giovanni!

[La_Serpiente]

3. HELLO...THAT'S THE STUPIDEST PIECE OF CRAP

First of all, YOU CAN'T STOP JOE MILLIONAIRE FROM MARRYING ANOTHER Women IF YOU PASS THIS LAW...I don't know...I'm just too pissed to even comment. If they wanted to, they should just make adultery a crime and ban divorce assholes.

[GiovanniC]

8. It Was Sarcasm n/t

[monarch]

2. Terrific letter!

Loved the quote. Who is Ernest Benn?

[GiovanniC]

9. Author

"The Confession of a Capitalist"
"Debt (Private and Public, Good and Bad)"
"State of the Enemy"
"If I Were a Labour Leader"

[Terran]

4. Good letter!

And I love that quote at the end--very appropriate for the body of people you're talking about!

Dirk

[bleedingheart]

5. great letter...

[theHandpuppet]

6. Kudos!!!

That was a great letter! Let us know if you get any response.

[Democrats unite]

7. Again KUDOS!!!

thanks for being there.

[mermaid]

10. Congrats! Here's MY Letter....

-- Dear Mr. "President,"

I assume, since you are so interested in protecting the institution
of marriage, that you will be shortly issuing an Executive Order
banning all divorces and re-marriages during Marriage Protection
Week.

You really do not specify exactly what, however, you seek to
protect the institution of marriage FROM. And I'd like to know what the real enemy of the institution of marriage is, that you feel it necessary to make such a proclamation.

Is it more harmful to the institution of marriage that a gay couple
that honestly loves one another be allowed to marry each other in a
CIVIL UNION...(no church is forced to recognize if it does not so
choose to) or is it more harmful to the institution of marriage that a
heterosexual man can marry, divorce, and remarry as many times as he
wishes?

You know, Mr. "President"...I have to say this ...

This has absolutely nothing to do with "family values" or "Christian
morals." Be honest. The real reason you oppose gay marriage is that
homosexuality GROSSES YOU OUT!! Isn't that right, Mr. "President?"