by Kimberly Stevens

Created on: April 05, 2009

"Should we approve of same sex marriage?" would be better stated as "Should we make legal same sex marriage?" There is no approve or disapprove of something that is happening anyway. No government can tell two people who love each other deeply and passionately that they cannot make a life long commitment to one another. Furthermore, what harm would it cause if it was legalized?

Some parent is afraid their children might see two women holding hands or two men grocery shopping together. Grow up and realize what your children are seeing in public schools already in this country. For all who are against the legalization, does this also imply that two heterosexual people that despise each other have more of a right to be together than two homosexual people who are deeply and madly in love with one another?

I would much rather my children grow up in a family and household filled with love rather than resentment. Dealing with this issue is not about acceptance in the first place, it is about tolerance. Heterosexual people can be tolerant of homosexual people just as homosexual people are tolerant of heterosexual people.

You hear constantly about what this country was founded upon and what we should be doing but how long has it been since we have strayed away from what the country was founded upon? Homosexuals were not the cause of that. Heterosexual people want to argue about homosexuals messing up the sanctity of marriage, the divorce rate and infidelity rate among heterosexual people is astronomical.

Marriage is defined as "the social, spiritual, and/or legal union of individuals" do homosexuals who are truly in love not have that right as citizens of this "free" country? Whether you personally approve or disapprove of the union of a homosexual couple is not an issue. Ask yourself this, "As human beings, if they are truly in love, do they or do they not have the right to make a commitment to one another?" Most people who know what it means to be "in" love can and will tell you that their wedding day was the most amazing day of their lives.

I know people who are 80 and 90 years old that were married 60 years and can still recount every detail of their wedding day. Homosexuals deserve that just as much as anyone else. We were all created equal. E-Q-U-A-L, that means no one above any other. Every human deserves love and deserves to experience everything that goes along with it.

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