| "Is there anything more fundamental to the | | | | convince people to vote to rob someone of his |
| commonwealth and this country than the principle | | | | rights. |
| that the power is reserved for the people, that | | | | It has to stop. |
| government is the servant, not the master?" | | | | I know many people feel it is morally wrong, a sin |
| Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney | | | | against god. It's still discrimination. The United States |
| Yes. | | | | isn't a theocracy. The same laws that protect your |
| Yes Governor Romney, there is something more | | | | right to your religious lifestyle choice must extend the |
| fundamental to the commonwealth, to this country, | | | | rights for other people to live equally in this land. |
| to the rights of every human being on this planet | | | | I know many people feel it goes against tradition. It's |
| than "the principle that power is reserved for the | | | | still discrimination. We have always pushed past |
| people." That fundamental principle that all men, ALL | | | | tradition in this country when it was the right thing to |
| men are created equal. | | | | do. Ending slavery. Women's Suffrage. The Civil Rights |
| That includes gay men. That includes lesbians. All men | | | | movement. All of these went against "tradition" and |
| are equal if we really do hold these truths of our | | | | the world is better for it. |
| great nation as self evident. Democracy cannot be | | | | I know many people feel it threatens the sanctity of |
| allowed to vote out equality. "Majority rule" cannot be | | | | marriage. It's still discrimination. Marriage is a wonderful |
| allowed to vote in discrimination. | | | | thing, but we allow any straight couple to marry for |
| Why then are you trying to do just that in | | | | any reason. Love, sex, children. Money, boredom, |
| Massachusetts? Why is the one state that has | | | | stupidity. We allow serial cheaters to remarry. We |
| recognized the Right of all people who wish to be | | | | allow convicted wife beaters to remarry. Somehow |
| married, now poised to vote on a Constitutional | | | | the institution survives. How then can we say that a |
| Amendment to ban same sex couples from being | | | | loving gay couple would damage it? |
| wed? | | | | Enough. |
| When will this country learn that you don't get to | | | | You are either for equal rights, or against it. Period. |
| vote on human rights. The only way we can ban gay | | | | It's time for straight people to stand up and say |
| marriage is the tyrant's way. Stripping a man of his | | | | enough. It's time for us to move past the stigma of |
| humanity. Making him less equal, less worthy, less | | | | being labeled "gay" just because we support the |
| important than other men. Turning him from a person | | | | rights of others to be who they are. We can't be in |
| into an object, an animal, a freak. That is how you | | | | the closet as far as support anymore. |