Gov. Douglas has vowed to veto the legislation currently passing through the state's legislature with overwhelming support that will grant equal marriage rights to the GLBT community in Vermont.
Please feel free to copy/paste and send the same message (or, even better, something personal from you instead) to him here:
http://governor.vermont.go
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Governor Douglas,
I'm writing to you on behalf of people just like me in your state.
I'm gay. Don't stop reading this here.
My parents struggled with knowing that I didn't choose to be gay and that I was going to grow up in a world where legislators purposely elected to exclude me from the equal rights under law that everyone else had. I was a gay child who didn't understand why he wasn't equal to everyone else. They didn't know what to tell me.
What should they have told me, Mr. Governor? As one of the legislators who has vowed to exclude people like me from equality under the law - what should the parents of gay children say? That a person in a position of power is allowed to legislate his or her personal and/or religious beliefs into law and that we all must adhere?
Here's your message to gay children: the law doesn't accept you, and you're less than human for it.
Is that a message you're willing to keep sending to children who deserve a chance to be happy, just like you?
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1 comment:
Very nicely-written blog!
I, too, liked to re-write my content many times before it got published. However, I'm doing less and less of that now. :)
Rock on!
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