Marriage a matter of law, not religion

Published 3:02 pm Wednesday, November 17, 2010

It amazes me that people who consider themselves Americans feel that they have some God-given right to tell others how they must live their lives. To believe that we as citizens have the right to vote on whether our fellow citizens should have the same legal rights and obligations that we enjoy simply because we may not agree with their lifestyle is absurd.

Most of these know-it-alls seem to be calling themselves Christians and therefore claim to speak in the name of their God. Well, thankfully, inane drivel written, also in the name of God, 2,000 years ago by religious zealots is not the law of this land.

Defense of Marriage is nothing more than a bunch of bigoted homophobes growling about their own sexual insecurities. A couple can be married in a dozen churches and are still not legally married without a state license. In this country marriage is a legally binding contract between two consenting adults and thus is a matter of law, not religion.

And since we as Americans are guaranteed equal rights under the law, those rights cannot be voted away by an ignorant majority. This is not up for debate and the fact that gays and lesbians have been and are being discriminated against is unconscionable.

Matt Begley

Everett