Dear Governor Baldacci: Text of the email I just sent supporting same-sex marriage.

6. May 2009 by Gennyfer.

I heard that you were having research done on this issue and had not yet made a decision. One of the reasons for this according to the news report was that you wanted to be sure that the rhetoric about rights not being equal was true, that civil unions are really not providing enough protections for same-sex couples.

I say it does not matter if all the rhetoric is true. It does not matter if every right is available in a civil union that is afforded to a married couple. What matters is the perception to my children, who are growing up right now viewing all of our societies romantic visions of marriage, that some couples do not get to achieve this dream. It is never easy to be in a minority. Singling out a minority and forcing them to use a different term for so momentous an event and such a vital dynamic part of our societal structure would make life more difficult. Corralling and marginalizing any part of our society weakens the fiber of the vision for democracy woven by our founding fathers.

I do not know if any of my five children or the nephew that lives with me is homosexual. I do know that they are the greatest pieces of my heart and the vision for the future that I will leave on this planet when I am gone. I do not know if they will ever directly benefit from this bill you will have before you soon, perhaps today, but I do know that my greatest desire for my children is that no doors are closed for them or any one else’s child before they have a chance to choose whether or not they want to walk through it.

Please Governor Baldacci open that door so that no one I love, no one at all, has to choose a second class version of marriage.

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