Let me elaborate on the "anarchy" Mr. Knudson (5/22) thinks I'm driving our country towards: In that great, frightening future, I can make a promise before God and government to be forever faithful to whomever I love, and my newly forged family can enjoy federal protection of 1,138 statutes that the unmarried cannot. What a disastrous, terrible thing. I shudder at the chaos in the streets when we choose to have children or adopt. I tremble at the pandemonium that will ensue when one of us is hospitalized, and gets welcomed visits by the other. It will be a fearful day when my lawfully wedded spouse passes away, and I, alone and grieving, am left to sort out their affairs with the survivors of our loving family.
Mr. Knudson is welcomed to stand firm in his faith in opposing my way of life, and I will respect him and his church for not allowing me to get married there; my church will. I will defend to the death the right for Mr. Knudson to believe and worship how he chooses, but neither he, nor anyone else, has the right to impose those beliefs on me. If he thinks it's "anarchy," then so be it, and I hope in that feral future, his family and mine can enjoy equal protection under the law.
Our political system should be focused around issues, not my party vs. your party. It's about the well being of our country for future generations, not a team sport. If it's not obvious both of the parties are bought and paid for, then you haven't been paying close enough attention. Vote issues, not affiliations. Do your homework; don't just believe what one network or another spoon feeds you. Who cares how an ethnicity votes? How do you vote?
Robert Gandy
Ossineke