Letters Gay marriage plea to President Bush falls on deaf ears Thursday, May 08, 2008
Dear Express South Florida Editor: Regarding your article "’Marriage’ is sacred only when it results in a stable Family” (Viewpoint, May 1, 2008):
I agree with your writer, Earl Rynerson. Both heterosexual and gay couples can create nurturing environments and families. My bi-national partner from Colombia and I are not allowed to marry in either of our countries. We now must live in separate countries if we want to maintain our relationship of almost ten years, and I must travel to Colombia often. A heterosexual couple can easily marry in either country and obtain legal residency wherever they choose to live. Heterosexuals should really count their blessings, as they receive so many benefits with being able to marry.
I have decided to write President Bush a letter and tell him I am using my $600 dollar stimulus refund to buy a plane ticket from Avianca Airlines, the airline of Colombia, to be with my partner for several weeks. I will ask him again in this letter for a presidential pardon or amnesty so that my partner can come here and we can live together as a family, since the other two letters I wrote have not resulted in anything. It just isn’t fair. It may be wishful thinking that Bush would grant me such a pardon; it would be a miracle, I guess.
Homosexuals have to get their act together and make it a priority that gay marriage is a reality for them. We need to continue to have mass marches here in Florida and around the country peacefully fighting for our equal rights. My partner and I are a family forced to live apart due to our unfair laws toward gays. However, our love seems to grow greater everyday becoming more and more sacred. I am hopeful that someday soon gays will be able to marry; they will be able to bring their partners from other countries here as straights can now do. Creating families should be what America and other countries should be supporting; this opportunity can only make our country even greater when another group is allowed the same privileges as others to share in their love.
