Letter: ‘Everybody should have the right to get married’

To the editor,

I wish my fiance and I would have known about the recent rally here in Hastings against the proposed marriage amendment because we would've certainly been in attendance. We both agree that everybody should have the right to get married and live the life they want to live as long as it isn't negatively affecting others.

We will raise our two young children to think no differently of a classmate who has two moms or two dads. How can a person look at another human being, whose life choice is to be with a same-sex partner, and tell them that their lifestyle is wrong or immoral and that they shouldn’t be able to marry the person they love? What is it to them?

Human rights, needs and overall happiness should come before religion, not the other way around. Supporters of this amendment claim that they want to protect the “sanctity of marriage.” Lets call it what it really is: a legal contract.

Not only that, but the last time I checked the divorce rate was still well over 50 percent. So, for you amendment supporters, you're too late, it's a lost cause. Those who say that the homosexual lifestyle just “isn't natural,” I wonder if they have ever dyed their hair? Worn make-up? Taken medication? Had life-saving surgery? Because you could say they aren’t natural, as are many other things we choose for ourselves everyday to be happy and healthy.

Either way this amendment goes, and whether or not gay marriage is ever legalized in Minnesota, nobody will ever be able to tell someone else who they are allowed to love and we can all be grateful for that!

Mindy Storlie and Chase Rupprecht

Hastings

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