I find it rather irritating that the social conservatives, despite their victory in the battle for the rights of homosexuals to marry, are writing letters to The State News in which they pose as victims of “intolerance” on the part of those of us in opposition to Proposition 8 and its likenesses. How they can expect tolerance is beyond me. They have imposed upon millions a set of moral standards derived from their own faith. And that, my friends, is what we call theocracy.

Tuesday’s letter from graduate students Matt Masarik, Jaylan Jones and Audrey DeGuire, Tolerance needed for those who don’t support same-sex marriage, (SN 11/18), indicates that it is one’s right not to actively support something that one feels is wrong. They are very correct in this respect: One is not in the wrong for refusing to support something that he feels is immoral. When he elects, however, to take his distaste one step further and actively deny another individual his rights, he is no longer within his rights. It would be hardly different if vegetarians abolished the meat industry and the consumption of animal flesh (though even this cause could be better justified).