When people invest in buying government-issued hunting, fishing, driving and yes, marriage licenses, they should put them to good use.

A pastor in Texas is telling his congregation that married couples should have sex every day. After all, a marriage license legalizes sexual encounters in the heterosexual society.

Of all the government licenses issued, only the marriage license is ruled by organized religious groups. Religion must be separated from government. How? Remove the word “marriage” and replace it with “civil union.”

Equality should be granted to every heterosexual and homosexual couple in America. Gays and lesbians should be able to work and live without fear. By legalizing sex for gays, organized religious groups would be able to look within, instead of trying to destroy the lives of the 10 to 15 percent of the world’s population who are homosexual.

Rolande I. Caron, South Paris