Opinion

Civil unions should apply to all

Posted May 14, 2009 11:00 pm

In response to J. Lippert's May 7 letter regarding God's law and gay marriage, I must say that he must be forgetting that this country is a democracy and not a theocracy. While this nation may have been founded on the belief in God, it was not founded endorsing any specific religion. That being said, I would agree that marriage is by all definitions a religious institution and being that it is religious, marriage should be completely written out of all our laws. Instead, if couples want legal protections - tax, medical, home ownership, etc. - they should enter civil union agreements, and those should be open to all heterosexual and homosexual couples. If we can't change "marriages" in all our laws to be "civil unions" then why not just open it up to gays and lesbians as well? Heterosexuals have been destroying the sanctity of marriage for quite some time, and I think it is time to let gays and lesbians contribute to the demise.

David Sarama

Lombard

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