In response to the previously published Tolerance needed for those who don’t support same-sex marriage (SN 11/18), I’ll simply begin by stating plainly what I’m sure many of you have may already concluded for yourselves: The authors clearly haven’t the slightest idea of what it means to be a victim of intolerance.
I’m sorry the authors feel marginalized by an increasingly liberal society that has started to leave them behind. I really am. But there is a clear difference between someone who disagrees with you and someone who is actively intolerant of your lifestyle, and that line is invariably drawn when words turn into action.
The state constitutions of California, Florida and Arizona, along with those of 33 other states, clearly cross that line. These state constitutions once held that all citizens were equal before the law.
To this, they have now once again included the addendum “Except for.”
But for the record, I’m ecstatic over the amount of discussion this issue has raised from both sides and only hope for more of the same. In a way, I am reminded of what happened the last time a senator from Illinois was elected to this nation’s highest office on a platform of hope and change: People started talking.
Perhaps by bringing these injustices out of the shadows and into the limelight, we can finally expose the intolerance and bigotry supporters of California’s Proposition 8 so vociferously deny.
Michael Tompkins
economics senior
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