I wish you come here to Massachusetts, I would be proud to have you as my neighbor.

Dwin,

Suricou is one of the good guys, she is being sarcastic.

If social conservatives have trouble suppressing their gag reflex in order to respect the dignity of gay and lesbian relationships then I suggest that they examine exactly what they are choking on. It’s more likely to be their own ego or ignorance and or self-righteousness than it is gay or lesbian people.

The “gag reflex” is a well-known failing of human beings. It not that long ago in this country that people had that same exact reaction at the thought of a black man and white woman falling in love and getting married. What’s next they would say, people getting married to their dogs and cats?

I’ve been blessed in my life to see quite a few gay and lesbian relationships up close and personal. They are neither more nor less flawed or sublime than relations between straight people.

I remember when my friend David was dying, the simple every-day human grace that his partner Michael would display as he took care of him. He was always there with a kind word or gentle touch, even when changing David’s diapers during his last days. If you want to truly see love in action, then witness two people taking care of each other in “sickness and in health”.

More recently I’ve been watching another gay couple I know take care of each other. Both Marines, they were also both wounded severely in Iraq by separate I.E.D.’s. They met and fell in love as they were recovering from their injuries. Both have TBI and PTSD, so they don’t respond well to loud noises. But last year during a thunderstorm, one of them crawled upstairs just to make sure that his sleeping partner was “all right”. He crawled because he had left his legs upstairs and the storm had cut the power to the handicap lift he normally uses.

If you cannot see the dignity and grace in “homosexual” relationships that is not because it doesn’t exist, it’s because you have intentionally blinded yourselves to it. You look upon gay and lesbian human beings and you take “human beings” out of the sentence. You have turned the hearts in your chests into icy black rocks. It is no wonder you are gagging.

We’re no threat to heterosexual families, we’re simply trying to live our lives in the way we know best. We love our kids and want them to know and love Jesus just as any heterosexual Christian family would. We take our kids to church and participate in our church. Our children would not be harmed if we were allowed to legally marry, they would be more protected. But let’s put marriage aside, I don’t care if you call it a civil union just so our children get the legal protections any child would have from belonging to a family — that’s all we ask for.

Oh, and by the way, there are many Christians who allow and recognize same-sex unions, ceremony and all. It’s there, opposing view Christians can’t do anything about it. It’s the government that we want to recogize our joining so that we can have LEGAL protections as every other member of the United States society has. This is a Civil Rights issue. In the United States there’s separation of religion and State, so you’re trying to impose your religious views on a government function. Our country was founded to fight having a religion dictate what parameters our government is run under.

God Bless You!