You can't be gay and get married; but you can be straight and get divorced

Photo by Dave Schumaker

One of the members in our Rainbow Romance Writers chapter found this incredible blog post, from Jill Malone. She's celebrating love and marriage in her ongoing series entitled The Marriage Project - even though in most of our states, she can't legally marry.

Jill showcases an essay by Marguerite Quantaine. What jumped out at me from the post is this quote:

"But this time, the Jeffersonian paradox challenges whether we, as a nation, believe the worst heterosexual is still better than the best homosexual.

Because all the worst heterosexuals in America can marry.

But even the best homosexuals cannot."

How can we as Americans stand by while fellow citizens are denied equal protection under the law? This has everything to do with religion and nothing to do with the rule of law. That is, as long as you believe the naysayers who tell us that gay marriage is an abomination, a sin, against the laws of man. It should have everything to do with the law and nothing to do with religion. Either each of us can walk into the county clerk's office and purchase a license or we can't. Isn't it that simple?

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How is it some of us define right and wrong by whom we love, rather than by what we do and who we are? When do we begin to accept that that perhaps what we've grown up with, what our parents and grandparents -- and society, frankly -- taught us just may not be the truth?

When people are free to love and express it, to cherish each other and commit to each other, isn't our society strengthened by each and every special moment of that love? How is it wrong to embrace our differences yet celebrate what makes us the same? We're human beings, with rights from God that man -- that government -- cannot take away.

Why do some people believe in these divine rights, except when they apply to all?