To the editor:
With the Supreme Court hearing two same-sex marriage cases this week, lots of people have been again debating whether homosexuals should be allowed to marry each other.
Fortunately, most people — based on polling — seem to be in favor of allowing same-sex couples to marry and see no problem with it. These people are fully for gay rights and see marriage as the most important right gay people want to have. Still, there are those who are against same-sex marriage and may always be against it, as someone has recently told me.
Those who are against it may be deeply entrenched in their views. They are entitled to their opinion; it is their right.
However, I was then told that they should not be attacked for the opinion, since we do not know if it is right or wrong. I just want to point out that, by having the opinion, people are holding back a group of citizens from achieving equality. How can that possibly be a good opinion?
’Then there are some people who say, “I like gay people, and have no problem with them being gay, but I just am not for gay marriage.”
They may also claim to be for gay rights, but they are missing the most fundamental right, which is marriage. People cannot be for gay rights without being for gay marriage. And those who “like” gay people and have no problem with them being gay clearly still have a problem with homosexuals since they do not want them to achieve equality.
Frankly, it is insulting for a gay person to hear, “I like you, but the most important right you want is something I am not for.”
One day when same-sex marriage is legal throughout the nation, people will realize that two men or two women getting married and possibly living next door to a straight couple has not affected the straight couple’s marriage and has not drastically changed society.
Alex Wizna
Hillsborough
