Dear Sir or Madam,
We were planning a vacation from our California home to your state to attend the wedding of friends in May.
We know they were planning on spending around $4000, and our family of 8 were going to come out there in our motor home and stay at the KOA camp there. I have sent them a letter stating that we will not be staying there and utilizing their facilities or any of the ones that we were going to, that they advertise on their website.
It is amazing that businesses in your state are allowing the loss of income that these same sex marriages would bring in. I am sure there will be tens if not hundreds of thousands lost, not just by the loss of the marriages, but also by the loss of the families that were coming to go to these marriages.
I am saddened that I must tell my children, that a state that we had previously thought was not biased towards same sex partnerships is not as we thought.
It is sad that the people forcing the upholding of an ancient law, one from 1913, like those ones that say if you kiss in public you can be thrown in jail. It is idiocy like this that makes people loose respect for the states and the law makers.
It is truly amazing that as part of a straight couple I am entitled to the 1,049 rights as a US Citizen, but that our friends who are a same sex couple are not. To our family that is nothing short of discrimination. It is also a form of discrimination that only residents can marry now in Boston, when many people from out of state have married there in the past. I am sure this will have long lasting repercussions on your state.
I wonder if they are able to put faces to the decisions they make. If they can imagine the disappointment and tears, and how they sleep at night-knowing that my marriage would in no way affect theirs.
Maybe if any of those in authority had a family member or a true friend that was gay they wouldn’t have been so quick to dig up an old obscure law that is being used to discriminate with.
Shameful from a city renowned for the Boston tea party, where an injustice was fought. Now they are doing an injustice themselves. What a shame. Sincerely,
Merle and Cynthia Bacon 1635 S. Main Street Willits, Ca 95490 707-459-1820
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