Dear Reader,

There comes a time for every politically partisan person, where a sideways stride must be taken, where one may annoy one's fellows, upset balances, and despite future repercussions, stand for what is right. Now is a time where that duty is called upon.

The constitution of the United States is, in my oponion, among the most sacred documents on this planet. Its ingenuity, forsight, morality, and applicability to the creation of a great society is second to none. It has, in American life, been the unifier of the American people. It has seen the enrolement of blacks and women to vote, it has protected our sacred individual rights, and created limits for those in power.

We stand today, in a time of uncertainty, fear, and an uncharistically divided America, upon which an amendment, for the first time, will create a biting divide. It is sponsored and supported by people who have, or whos ancestors have, suffered the Holocaust, slavery, segregation, religous persecution in which many of the same arguments were being voiced.

Many argue that traditional marriage is being imposed on by people who are different. Can it not be said that the right to walk into a restaurant with all white people, or go to school with all white children, or serve in the army with all white people was opposed 50 years ago?

Where does the segregatory line end and conceived tradition begin? Is it with slavery, or color, or sex, or sexual preference? If there is anything that should be taken out of Jim Crowe it is that seperate, by its very definition, is not equal.

A stand must be taken. We cannot sign to our most sacred document something that is in its very heart descriminatory. We are Americans. We pride ourselves on our differences and our abillity to accept, respect, and live with others who are not the same as us.

Best Wishes,
LeftyRighty