Letter: Gay marriages inconsequential

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Saturday, June 19, 2004 | 12:36 p.m.

WEEKEND EDITION

June 19 - 20, 2004

With all the problems America faces -- including the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the huge deficit, health care issues, and illegal immigration -- President Bush found time to speak to his core supporters at the Southern Baptist Convention, assuring them that he supports a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriages.

While many Americans oppose gay marriages, they do not have the dire consequences that the president claims. If two law-abiding citizens of the same sex choose to mate, we may not approve, but is it really going to affect us?

RICHARD J. MUNDY