Gay marriage ban detrimental to equality

I'm writing this month on an issue that's very close to my heart, same sex marriage. While several States have already passed bans, New Jersey has a unique opportunity to forge a new frontier. The simple truth of the matter is, as long as states ban gay marriage, we will never have true equality for all. I am seriously considering taking a stronger stand besides letter writing against this trend that denies the gay community equal rights.

This is not to be taken as a blight on my fellow Americans, but our government. I am really thinking about no longer saying the Pledge of Allegiance, nor singing our national anthem. A lot of people might consider that grossly unpatriotic. But is it patriotic to deny equal rights for all? I don't understand the "homophobic" mindset at all. Other nations of this world allow same sex marriage, and their societies have not deteriorated because of it.

The puritanical mindset of American society is the enemy. There is so much misinformation out there about the reality of being gay, that it's hard for the truth to get through. You can call me extreme, unpatriotic, but I will not give up until we within the gay community enjoy all the rights and civil liberties everyone else enjoys. And for the religious zealots, who want to condemn me and my community to hell, I pray someone shows you the truth. "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."

We do not have true diversity until the gay community is elevated by law and mindset to the status of equal treatment under the law, full equal rights, and full civil liberties, which include the right to get a civil marriage.

Albert Worth

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