by Volecia Plafcan

Created on: March 30, 2008   Last Updated: January 19, 2009

I try to base my life on the Bible as much as possible. I am old fashioned and the first homosexuals I knew were in Houston in the early sixties. The man was a hair stylist who went to work every day and he called his stay-at-home friend "her". They were my neighbors and I thought nothing of it. They were two men to me and I was a simpleton from the south.

Since, I have met people who are that way and I cannot understand why they choose to live a life of that kind. I have heard that men have been with overbearing women and their choice is another man who understands him. And, women who have been dealt some hard times by men, choose other women. This I don't agree with. I have been dealt some blows and abuse by several men, and I do not choose to have sex with a woman. I have some lady friends but the idea of having sex with one of them is disgusting to me.

I do not agree that homosexuals should have the rights and benefits of marriage because that is not the way it should be. It is disgusting that two men would want to raise children together unless they are related. The same goes for women.

Consider the child. Just how could a child not be isolated in school because it has two fathers or two mothers? Imagine the other children using their child as the butt of their jokes in school? What kind of counseling would a psychologist offer this child? "I am Dr. So and So. I specialize in counseling children who have two women as parents and can't handle it."

I know I am not the one to judge people. But, when I know in my heart that it is not right, I feel I can voice and opinion on the matter.

I was faculty secretary for a Nursing School once. It had never entered my mind how homosexuals had sex and when they started rattling off all the ER visits made by homosexuals, it just blew my mind. They found so much foreign objects up their behinds that was stuck, had I been them, I would have left it, I would have been so embarrassed.

I just don't believe homosexuals have a right to be married. Why can't they live as roommates and let that be it. Why go around protesting because they can't be a family with children, have dogs, and a little white house with a rose trellis? Children need a normal life so that they, in turn, will lead a normal life as adults.

Mind you people are people. At my fortieth high school reunion, I was approached by one of my male classmates. He told me he had always loved me because I always seemed to have loved everybody. He said, "And I still love you." I told him, "I still love you and I love everybody I meet." I do. Be it homosexual or no.

But, I cannot hope to meet someone in the grocery store, the library or even a bar for any more, you just never know what to expect. So, I go to church and out to eat with my female friends. I would love a relationship with a straight guy but there doesn't seem to be any anymore.

So, in closing, I say leave marriage to the straight people who can raise normal children and keep this country in God's way.

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