This letter is in response to Managing Editor Ben Cady's article ("Gay Marriage and John Kerry," Oct. 20). I challenge Cady and anyone who might share similar views on Kerry, Edwards and Bush and the topic of gay marriage to evaluate the candidates and the issue.
To my surprise Cady infers that although Kerry and Edwards have publicly stated that they do not support gay marriage, this is just for the sake of winning the election and that in actuality they do support it. This alone is enough to keep me baffled. How is it that you support a candidate when you hope and think he feels the way you do on a topic of importance to you? Furthermore, if you really believe he does take a stand contrary to what he states, then that would surely bring into question the integrity of any ideas or promises he has made.
I am a strong supporter of our nation's court systems. You may not believe it, but we do have a say on who gets to be the judges in the federal court system. After all any federal judge has to be appointed by a politician that us, the voters, voted for. If you believe our nation needs judges that will advocate gay marriage, then vote for a candidate that shares the same view.
To imply those who do not support gay marriage would have been the same people to oppose interracial marriage in the Sixties is simply uncalled for. They are separate whether you choose to believe so or not. To imply that a person who protests gay marriages is one and the same as a bigot is very offensive. And accusing the opposite voice of whining and griping is just childish.
Finally I would like to ask you to evaluate the importance of this issue in this election. I caution you to look at the vast responsibilities of the President of the United States. From intricacies of foreign policy and the economy, how important is a president appointing judges based on gay marriage to you? Making a vote on one issue alone is hard to justify in my mind unless you feel that strongly about it.
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