LGBT News Rita Mayfield on Marriage

How did she become elected? I mean.....she is in this position. If she's still there, then she has the right to go with what she believes. Let me guess - she's up for re-election?

 

Grammar Nazi complaint:

"Representative Campbell, we are in 2013, this bill is nothing new."

That's a comma splice, which is incorrect. After "2013" should be a semicolon. Better to make ourselves look as educated as possible; it could never hurt.

A great letter though. I'd rarely advise representatives to vote against their constituents' stance, but in this case, she needs to.

 

Not that it probably matter much, since I am from another country, but I sent one anyway.

Dear Rita Campbell

This E mail comes from an LGBT member from Norway, a lesbian girl (26) who pay close attention to the situation in other places of the world. I have friends all over our beautiful earth, some of which live in your country, a country that I used to shake my head over, but over the last couple of years I am starting to think that progress has grown wings for your countrymen. Norway is not perfect, but we do all share equal right under law, and we have the right to give our hand with all the legal rights that follow, to that special someone in our lives in marriage. That is a precious gift, one that all should have. I can only imagine being denied to marry my wonderful girlfriend, who stands by my side through good and through evil, always being a pillar of support for me, and who I in return want to give everything I can, to be a pillar in her life as well. This is not unique. You have so many LGBT people in your state, and not only that, you have Christian LGBT members, who want a chance to stand before God and declare their love in a church. They also want to not be denied their rights, because the person they wish to be with and marry simply happen to have the same genitals as they do. They want their love to be recognized by state, and by government, and not as something forbidden and shamed.

Currently 9 states in America has legal same sex marriage. Don`t all your people deserve the same right? As a representative with the power of vote to give someone this gift, how can you with a clear conscience allow the majority of misinformed and ignorant people control your vote on a subject that is so important for so many people in your state? Sometimes we have to follow our gut, and do what is right, that`s the burden every leader faces. In a few years from now, people will have seen that this didn`t change their lives to the negative, but it did change some lives to the positive. Equal rights for everyone, whether black/white, or straight/gay. This is the final frontier in the battle towards equality; the women has won theirs, the black has won theirs, it is time for LGBT people to be included, given the rights they deserve, no longer be told by everything around them that who they are is something to be denied, shamed and hidden. Change has to start somewhere, and your country has come so far. Please help in come even further, and know that hearts are deeply connected to this battle, not just in your state, but all over the world. Your vote could be the deciding one!

If you read this mail, thank you for thinking over the words I have written. I hope for the best, for your state, your people and your country.


XXX
Norway

I signed it with my real name, though I can`t do that here, hence the X :icon_wink