What's Being Written
The New Mexican
March 3, 2005
We are a Catholic, Christian, straight couple opposed to “defense of marriage” legislation. These bills are fear-based efforts to deny to people born gay an equal right to pursue happiness, guaranteed to all Americans.
We studied Scripture for many years and see nothing there that Jesus said about homosexuals. Denying them equal rights to form legal, committed, lifelong relationships is un-Christian, un-American and inhumane. We support civil domestic partnerships as a beginning of social justice.
We have been married for 37 years and there is no way our marriage — or any one else’s marriage — is threatened by or needs “defending” from gay unions.
The divorce rate steadily increased long before gay unions became an issue. Blaming gays is unfair and cowardly. We could use some defending against religious zealots legislatively imposing on everyone their un-Christian and discriminatory beliefs.
Mary Ellen and Dan Duran
Santa Fe
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Ban Divorce
The pious posturing at the Roundhouse around the issue of marriage is pandering to the public in its basest form. It is simply posing by members of the political right. If these elected officials truly want to “defend marriage” and impose a Christian sharia on our public life, they should well remember that the Christian belief also includes the matrimonial mandate: “What God has joined together, let no man put asunder.”
Despite this clear injunction, as many as 50 percent of marriages in the United States today end in divorce. This is a much greater threat to marriage than my relationship with my companion of 26 years.
If our legislators want to “defend marriage,” they should be pounding the tables in support of legislation — or a constitutional amendment, if that’s the only way — to outlaw divorce and ensure that marriages are truly “until death do us part.”
Louis Bixenman
Santa Fe
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Media corruption
It is disturbing to hear of the release of more Sept. 11 commission reports after the Bush administration stalled the release of these documents until after the election.
The documents report that there were 52 memos to this administration in a six-month period before Sept. 11, 2001. The memos, warning there was going to be an attack on our country, were ignored and lied about to the commission.
We also hear that the administration pays reporters to sell their agenda to the public against the law. And we hear of fake journalist -Jeff Gannon- James Dale Guckert allowed to attend press briefings to ask softball questions of President Bush and Scott McClellan, the White House press spokesman.
This obvious smear campaign against White House enemies, and to interfere with real White House reporters, is unacceptable in a democracy .
J.D. Gonzales
Santa Fe
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