Some say that same-sex marriage is about equal rights and discrimination.

I say everyone has the same rights already. There is no discrimination.

The real issue is a group of people wanting a special right, and about the word “marriage.”

By changing the meaning of marriage, you take away something from one group to satisfy another. What is being taken away is marriage as people have always known it.

Marriage is the core of society; the heart and soul of loving families; the beliefs and values that were taught by mothers and fathers. Religious teachings are that marriage is between a man and a woman. Now that has been degraded into an empty, meaningless word that no longer has any substance.

We don’t always get what we want in life; sometimes we have to compromise. If the law is repealed and the homosexuals would accept a civil union with all the benefits that the traditional marriage brings, leaving God’s word the way it was intended to be — between a man and a woman — it would be a win-win situation. There could be peace and harmony and respect for one another, instead of the bitterness, hatred and animosity.

It’s not right to take something as sacred as marriage and change it to benefit a small group’s wants when they can have the same thing by just choosing a different word.

If the homosexuals would accept that, they would be looked at in a different way.

Geri Roberts, Hebron