Just wanted to let you know that we support the supreme court decision to allow same sex people to marry. I get tired of hearing about the sanctity of marriage while living in a country that allows and encourages divorce through the courts. If marriage has to do with religion, and I believe it does, then the the legal side of marriage is not to do with religion. If the churches want to refuse to allow gays to marry in the church, the state should stay out of it. If the courts want to allow gays to enter into a civil union, the church can stay out of it. I see a lot of gay couples provide a loving home for their children. And I see a lot of straight couples tearing their sanctioned marriages apart and destroying families. If it takes lawyers and a judge to dissolve a marriage, this is a legal contract.

I hope the churches and Christians out there can figure out a way to keep straight couples married. In the meantime, please don’t be a part of the zealots that want to prevent loving people, no matter what their sexual preferences, from knowing the legal security of our state marriages.

If you want to verify our beliefs, feel free to contact me at 832-3524.

Hope you can keep church and state separate.

Sincerely,

Dick and Crystal Griffith

And we did vote for you.