Homosexuals deserve equal rights

A letter reprinted from Fredericksburg.com:

Homosexuals deserve equal rights. That’s a plain fact.

Date published: 11/24/2004

Mr. Herbert W. Lux Jr. [“Those who stood up for marriage deserve thanks,” Nov. 18] states: “To impose the destructive lifestyle of homosexuality on our society is wrong.”

He furthers states: “Nor should there be a watered-down version called civil unions in an attempt to get rights that come with legitimate marriage.”

This man must think that parents of gays and lesbians asked God to deliver to them a gay son or lesbian daughter.

Now that’s absurd; God brought these children into this world, just as God brings into this world all children.

Our God is a loving God. When a gay or lesbian is brought into this world, God and the parents are asked to love this child as any other child.

As a result, our God can see the hate in the eyes of Mr. Lux and all others who follow his beliefs.

But “it’s in the Bible,” he probably says.

This problem was around when God was born, and it will always be a problem.

Marriages are “until death do us part,” but divorce hits 50 percent of marriages and a divorce hurts both parties.

Gay and lesbian unions go through the same hurt as marriages when they end, but many of these partnerships also last for a lifetime.

It is time for Mr. Lux and others to accept their relationships as something from God.

It is also time for him and others to accept some sort of civil union that will give these people equal loving rights.

Gerald R. Korb
Locust Grove