Dear Governor Schwarzenegger –
Happy Memorial Day, Governor. I hope you get a chance to go to the park with your family.
It’s funny – we go to the same schools and parks as our neighbors, we vote in the same elections, we go to the same churches, and at the ball games, we stand in the same lines for hot dogs. Yet when it is time to get married, same-sex couples have to stand in one line, while opposite couples have to stand in a different line.
That doesn’t seem very American to me.
Sincerely,
Dear Governor Schwarzenegger –
Happy Easter, Governor.
Opponents of same-sex marriage have pointed to nature to say same-sex relationships are not natural. Well, in addition to penguins, orangutans and humans, we have observed roosters choosing to couple with same-sex partners.
Julius and Big Daddy came to Los Angeles’ A Dog’s Life rescue organization last year as a couple, and continued to eschew “normative chicken social conventions” by choosing each other as companions.
Their temporary caretakers were able to find them a permanent home in Alabama where they will be able to continue to enjoy each other’s company through the rest of their days.
In the human world, we take companionship to a higher level through marriage, a mutual legal and social framework that ties two people together. Nature doesn’t discriminate between same-sex and heterosexual couples, and I wish you would not either. Stop meddling with nature and let same-sex couples choose marriage like everybody else.
Yours,
Dear Governor Schwarzenegger -
As President Schwarzenegger in The Simpsons Movie, your character says “I was elected to lead, not to read.”
You don’t have to read to know that it is wrong to prevent couples who want to, from making the commitment of marriage.
Please lead us towards the freedom to marry by signing AB 43, the Religious Freedom and Civil Marriage Protection Act.
Thank you for reading and leading,