Yet, if I take a moment to look into the eyes of another I notice
another human being, an equal, and a friend. My friends in
alphabetical order, bisexual, gay, lesbian, straight, transgender are
all citizens who wish to love the person of their choosing. I am amazed
by how wonderful, creative, rich and different we each are, and it
stuns me that something so simple as love, a link we all share, would
become so entrenched in legal notions, and so twisted by prejudice that
one group of people would fit under no law, or under one law (civil
union), and another group of people would fit under yet another law
(marriage).
When did the law lose track of the neutrality of a contract?
When did love lose favor in the eyes of God(s)?
Should I not be allowed to enter into the contracts of my choosing?
Should my family and I not be allowed to create our own contracts so
that we might protect ourselves as we saw fit? After all we each have
the power to choose one another, why then do we not have the power to
choose freely the contracts that define the terms of our love?
Did you receive the contract up front when you married?
I think it is about time the laws were reexamined!
And for the record: I wholeheartedly support equal rights and the freedom to marry!
Caroline Tavelli-Abar
Rochester, VT
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