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I love my neighbors two doors down. They moved right in and started fixing their place up. Rick drove me to the towing place to pick up my car when I parked it in the wrong place and came outside to find it gone. They got us involved in the Community Watch program and I got Paul linked up with my scrap-booking class. But when they came over to the house asking that I add my name to the petition they were circulating to give gay marriage - their own union - sanctity, I had to say 'no'.

I am far from a homophobe. I'm hardly a gay-basher or any of the other names one might confer on someone like me. I don't think that every gay man is out to lure some little boy, or that every lesbian wants to dominate and humiliate some man. I've run into homosexual men who have treated me like dirt - and others who have treated me like the princess I am; the same with 'straight' men. It's just that I see in the universe the dual nature of just about everything in existence, I cannot help but feel that it is the interaction of opposites that holds the world together: left and right, up and down, front and back, top and bottom, dark and light, north and south, east and west. Electrons circulate around protons, positive and negative close circuits and give us light.
I see male and female in everything: the positive initiating force, the negative responding force. When one looks over the Biblical mandate, Genesis 1:28, one reads that "God blessed them, and told them to 'Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it'. Animals, including the human animal, exist as male and female. And in the world of reproduction, male and female couple together with parts that fit perfectly well together. They also have the power of perpetuation, lacking in the same-sex couple.
Can two consenting partners of the same sex forge a meaningful relationship? Of course. Every day one may see friends of the first magnitude relating, closer than brothers or sisters. Are there women in my life who are closer to me than my husband? In some arenas, yes. My husband spends an hour or more per call with one of his buddies from the Midwest. But when we desire sexual love, the attraction is to each other.
Because we feel a thing does not mean it is what should be; as an old friend once said, "It's just a feeling and it will pass." We can witness firsthand the issue of global warming, for instance. We feel the desire to live a certain lifestyle: to drive fast cars and have air conditioning and use hairspray

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