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Letter: Question 2 proponents have priorities wrong

Friday, Sept. 20, 2002 | 9:08 a.m.

It is quite amazing to me how advocates of Question 2 can firmly state they are not bigots.

What do you call it then when you propose to discriminate against a class of people who are seeking to join in a loving, committed, recognized union that for some reason the heterosexuals believe they have the only right to?

OK, maybe you didn't go out gay bashing, call someone a faggot, or beat a man to death and leave him for dead on a fence post, but you are in fact helping Richard Ziser's movement in which he flat-out said it was to keep gay unions from being recognized here.

It's always funny how people would like to pull from religious teachings to support their claim. Somebody needs to be the scapegoat, I guess.

If the institution of marriage is so sacred, why don't these people go down to City Hall and chastise the looming divorcees? Weren't they the ones who vowed before God and their families to stay together "till death do us part?"

I guess that's one part of the Bible we can just let slide by as acceptable, huh?

We'll just pick and choose which portions of the Bible we would like to hold to our progressive moral standards.

CASSANDRA PETERSON

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