Please look at these statistics: 85 percent heterosexuals versus 15 percent homosexuals world-wide. It’s like the United State’s impressive military attacking Iraq, or Israeli tanks and helicopters fighting the rock-throwing Palestinians. The Iraqi and Palestinians are considered enemies just like the homosexuals are to many of the heterosexual community. How can this minute minority win equal rights?

When the war in Iraq started, I was stunned to find out non-American citizens are accepted in the U.S. military while gays are rejected. Is this justice? I remember a film about a wealthy family with three daughters, one normal, one mentally challenged, one lesbian. Two had the legal rights to marriage while the lesbian was denied.

What is wrong with this picture? We allow mentally challenged male/female couples to legally marry while bright, normal gays are denied this privilege. In a Sun Journal article June 30, Katharine Hepburn is quoted as saying, “I don’t believe in marriage. It’s bloody impractical to love, honor and obey. If it weren’t, you wouldn’t have to sign a contract.”

So, marriage is no longer a sacred ritual. Look at the divorce rate. It is time for the 85 percent of society to help rewrite the definition of a legal marriage to read: “We are forming a legal partnership based on mutual love and trust.” This contract should be granted to all consenting adults.

Rolande I. Caron, South Paris

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