I have to say I haven't paid much attention to this job until today, although I have always been moderately aware of the votes and issues on the floor. But your vote against allowing gays to marry has provoked me.
Mr. Johnson, tear off that pin!
First of all, I am very uncomfortable with you budding into our lives in this manner, and although I am not gay, I feel this as an intrusion into the homes and lives of every human being. That government should decide how to legislate partnership, marriage, and the ideal family smacks of great arrogance and foolishness, as well as great naiveté. For this alone, I do not want anyone working in government who believes they have the right to do this. These are people who are against human rights, and are actively trying to wound another person, who is not asking you to marry them, just to leave them to their own life.
If your argument was for the sanctity of marriage, that has no merit in a society where half of all marriages (between a man and a woman) end in divorce. There is no sanctity here, and again the state getting involved with legislation is egregious and goes against the experiment that is our great democracy.
If this is a question of party unity, then this vote only states unequivocally that the republican party is against human rights, which I hope is not true, but I only have your vote to go by. Perhaps when you or your spouse is on their deathbed, someone might deprive you the right to sit by their side and to share their last moments, due to you not having a legitimate right to even get in the room.
Unless I see a change in vote, it does not matter where you stand on any other issue, as this is a matter for which this country is based, and for which wars have been fought, the right for person to be treated as a legitimate human being, which you obviously oppose. I will work and vote against you in the next election, and encourage everyone I know to do the same.
Consider this the next time you decide to "stand together." What are you really standing against?
Sincerely,William Daniels
For a complete record of the vote go here: NY Times vote
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