Speak up if you oppose gay marriage

Lars Johnson nailed it in his criticism of Burt Constable's column on gay marriage. In California and Massachusetts, voters strongly supported marriage as Constables parents and grandparents knew it to be, yet had their rights overturned.

As a result, we see "tolerance," homosexual-style, rearing its ugly head. After almost 53 percent of Californians voted to maintain traditional marriage, homosexual activists began showing up outside of churches, Knights of Columbus, and in Michigan, within the church itself, cowardly disrupting services liked spoiled brats.

In California an attack on elderly Phyllis Burgess knocked the cross she was carrying to the pavement. In San Francisco, police protected Christians exercising their first amendment rights to speak on homosexuality.

As Johnson pointed out, in California and Massachusetts, by a slim majority of one, (4-3) traditional marriage ended. This by justices, not elected or accountable to the people. In Massachusetts, no vote of the people took place, nor did their representatives vote. Supreme Court Justices just ruled that traditional marriage was discriminatory to homosexuals, and ordered the legislators "to fix it." Governor Romney sheepishly ordered justices to begin "marrying" the gay people who applied. When the democratic way is followed, and the people vote, we have seen 30 of 30 states wisely protect the precious sacrament of marriage that has served us so well.

This month, Greg Harris, an open homosexual legislator, is introducing bill 1826 that will approve civil unions (marriage in all ways but name) into Illinois. In Massachusetts, California, and Connecticut, once civil unions were passed, it quickly moved to marriage. This followed by requiring the homosexual lifestyle to be taught to students as young as kindergarten. "All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing." Let's not let this happen in Illinois. Call your state representatives and tell them you don't want civil unions to begin here in Illinois.

James Finnegan

Barrington