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To: Dale Baker who wrote (12060)	7/14/2004 4:57:54 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 20773

Moveon asked is all to write to Washington about the vote on amending the constitution to prohibit gay marriage. It's always bothered me, how nasty people can be to gays and lesbians- but I thought maybe if I tried to imagine I'm religious, maybe I will see their POV. But no. So I wrote this in the comments section of my letter: No matter how we feel personally about gays and lesbians, and no matter how we guess that our God feels about them, (for we cannot know the mind of God) here on Earth, where we are governed by men who are fallible, it is best to extend rights to as many people as possible, and to allow God to sort out any mistakes that have been made by our liberality, in heaven. Better that men err on the side of lenience, than that they persecute their fellow men and women in ways their deity would not approve. Marriage is a stabilizing force for society, and if people are going to choose to live with life partners of the same sex, let them be stable couplings, and let society encourage that stability. God will surely approve the impulse on the part of those of us who are not gay and lesbian to extend to the gay community the same rights and privileges we enjoy- until such time as the deity comes in person to tell us not to.