Reply #14: I suspect you are right in the utility of the "equal protection" argument.... [View All]

[Adsos Letter]

I wish there were a way to get at the root of the matter; not limiting this argument to the LGBT community (although this is where the battle lies in the immediate moment), but expanding it to the whole concept of majority oppression of minorities based either on religious belief, or non-supra-compelling matters of the common good.

I believe in religious liberty: the right to believe, worship, disbelieve, not-worship, etc., according to one's personal beliefs, including the right to criticize, mock, etc., the beliefs of others.

But that liberty stops at the point at which it incites one to harm another, or oppressive factions (large or small) to force their beliefs into law.

But this idea that "equal protection" under the law should be withheld from individuals, or groups, based on religious ideas is despicable, and contra to what I believe to be the spirit of the Declaration of Independence.

The laws of our nation can easily be maintained and expanded according to secular principles of common good, liberty, personal responsibility, and individual rights.

What I am trying to say, in my own inelegant way, is that I stand with LGBT individuals in their fight to gain acknowledgement of civil rights that I believe should be protected without question, including marriage.