What is sacred about marriage is the vow of commitment two people make to each other, to create a life together, and to support and help each other throughout that life. It is about love and commitment, not about sex and sexual orientation.

People who squawk about the sanctity of marriage between a man and a woman haven’t been paying much attention to the relationships of married people around them. A marriage is as sacred as the people involved make it – in how they honor their vows.

We are told that God is love. To me, that suggests that the sacredness of marriage is the love that brings two people together, not their genders or sexual orientation.

It’s pretty sad if some would deny our gay brothers and sisters their rights to love and commitment, and the social and legal benefits of marriage, in order to validate the “sanctity” of heterosexual marriage.

All love is sacred.

Virginia Hughes, Auburn