Hi,

I want you to imagine something. I want you to imagine your child (future or current) coming home and telling you about how happy they are and how much they love someone. I want you to imagine the joy that you would feel for your child. Then, I want you to imagine that your son was talking about another man or your daughter was talking about another girl.

I would hope that your feelings of joy and happiness would not change. I understand fully that some people don't agree with same sex marriage, but what I don't understand is the anger and hatred.

Though I am not part of the LGBT community, I do support them. I support those of the LGBT community as much as I support those of the straight community. To me, love is love and I want those who do not feel the same way as me understand why.

There are people both in religious communities and those who are not in religious communities that disagree with same-sex marriage and I'm just trying to understand why they feel like that.

Though it says in the bible that man shall not lay with another man as they do with a woman because it is an abomination but the bible also says that God loves all His children. So, wouldn't that be a little contradictory? How is God supposed to love all of His children if he also said that those who lie in the bed with the same sex as they do opposite sexes are an abomination? I'm not very religious but I feel as if that seems backwards.

What does another person's happiness have anything to do with your own? Did you know that there are people who are disgusted with your way of living but they do not try and pass laws that ban you from living a happy life? These feelings have zero to do with religion.

What are those that are part of the LGBT hurting? You would not take a second glance at those same individuals if you did not know their sexual preferences. Each member of this community wakes up, works, lives, breathes, laughs, and loves just like those of the heterosexual community. There is no difference. So why do you treat them differently?

How would you feel if you as a heterosexual were unable to marry the person you love because of something minuscule? What if instead of homo/heterosexual stigmas, it was height? Oh, sorry, those over 5'10" and those under 5'2" cannot get married because of their height. Silly right? It's the same as sexuality. It's something that cannot be changed and therefore should not be discriminated against.

This is not a letter basing Christians, Catholics, Muslims, Jewish, or any other religion, so please do not take it as such. I respect those views and I am so happy that those who practice these religions practice them and they are happy. There is too much stigma against religious groups against the LGBT community.

I just wish that those who are against the LGBT community would understand that this is not something that is going away and not something that can be changed with therapy or boarding school.

Once upon American history interracial marriage was illegal too and now look at how silly that sounds...

Sincerely,

A Love-activist.