Same-sex unions a matter of equity

I praise your stand on same sex unions for gays.

Legalizing civil unions for gays and giving everyone the legal benefits of marriage is one step toward the top of the ladder toward the understanding that if you love someone (anyone), you should be together.

A gay person must pay taxes along with Social Security money into the system which is paying for your spouse's retirement or death benefit, but if a gay person's partner dies, they get nothing.

Paying health insurance benefits for gay couples with or without families would also be a plus. It is more about equal benefits than anything else.

If your husband or wife were in an accident, you have the right to be in the room? Do gays?

My sister was born and raised in Illinois and moved to Austin, Texas, years ago. Her partner and her have raised foster children for years because the straight people do not want them. Some of them are not even married, but are still having children out of wedlock.

She has had children of all different colors because in Gods eyes, they are still his children.

In the past five years, she has adopted two of these children and just received a call yesterday that the mother of her youngest just had another baby girl two days ago and would they like to adopt her youngest sibling?

My sister and her partner are Caucasian and her three children are African American.

If God did not want gays to lead normal lives like everyone else, to raise families, to be your neighbor, to be your friend, then somewhere he stopped walking beside you to help you understand that he did in fact raise gays also.

I do have to say, that my partner and I were the proudest aunts around yesterday when we got the call that they were adopting another one of God's children and so was our mother.

J Rasmus

Streamwood