Web Letters: Why Vermont's Marriage Equality Matters

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By Michael Corcoran

April 8, 2009

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  • When are gay activists going to be honest, not just with non-gays, but with themselves, and admit that it is really not about "marriage"?

    The other contradiction that everyone is sweeping under the rug is why the heterosexual sympathizers of the "same-sex marriage" crowd, have themselves, little regard for this institution? If I was living in a commitmentphobic "friends with benefits" relationship, why in hell would I be so concerned whether the next guy was married or not? Why Torrie Olson's boss offers one of the best-known examples of this point.

    It is not equality when a heterosexual with, say a venereal disease, has to divulge all his/her recent sexual partners. Ah, but the homosexual man or woman who has contracted AIDS does not.

    This is not a political issue, my fellow leftists--never was, as much as the strait-jacket ideologues want us to believe. Get a grip!

    John Molina

    Chula Vista, CA

    04/11/2009 @ 4:08pm


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