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MARRIAGE: Idaho's time for same-sex

| September 25, 2013 9:00 PM

I am irritated with the way our country is headed marriage-wise. The Judicial branch has gratefully protected state rights to protect gay marriage as they choose, but I don’t see why Idaho cannot have same-sex marriage. Anyone who is gay has made a decision in their own life, they are even labeled as a community. Just because they/we have made choices to find a relationship in someone other than the opposite sex does not make a gay person inhuman.

With that said, why is the gay community not allowed the rights of the pursuit of happiness, marrying and having a family here? Are we not to be protected and allowed to have the right to marriage just as any other human is? What is the point of suppressing us?

Until someone can state that gays are not people and back that up with proof, then nobody has the right to keep us from our human rights. It is just wrong to say two people cannot get married just because they have the same organs. Human rights are for all humans, not the select majority who like the opposite sex.

J. JOHNSON

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