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Bruce McGuire

A letter to my governor and friends to forward a copy using their email. I ask you all to cut and paste and do the same. I have worked with the same people for over 7 almost 8 years. I do my job well and on the road i represent this company as it was my own. We just had our elections and one of the Amendments was about same sex marriage. It was voted down and i find that many of the people i thought were my friends clearly view me as a second class citizen and unworthy of the rights that married couples have. I am having a very hard time concentrating on my work today because of the idea a married couple a man that i work for and with got mad at his wife and into an arguement with her because she voted to not add the amendment to the State Constitution, and that another wanted to argue with me about it with out even reading the full sentence, or how it could be used to affect any kind of union other than marriage. I feel that these people are pretending to be something they are not and have done so for the last 7-8 years knowing full well that i am not only gay but poz. I have worked 40-60 hours a week and helped every one of them in some means . To the extent of even loaning money for them to keep electricity in their home. I did not expect anything but i did think i was showing them i was a person, a man, and a friend. How could i have been so wrong? If you agree with my opinion please forward a copy to your governor and other state officials. This can not be allowed to be used against us after we have come so far. Governor Crist family values are taught by the family at home.That is why it is called family values, right? When your child asks you something you tell them and if it is comfortable for you then you let them tell you later. Teach them right from wrong and you teach them tolerance. It appears that American families have only been able to teach some right from wrong and few tolerance. With the many diversities that reside in this country it is hard for me to believe that one could be confused with the other but it is. Issues are ones that involve state related politics and that being said i put this to you.... my post to same sex marriage ban amendment2 where values are issues when they should not be. Where religion is used as a shield for hatred and to press the wants of a moral majority to oppress a group of people who have different ideas but also seek life liberty and the pursuit of happiness surely this is wrong. For over 200 years interracial marriage was banned in 40 of these United States based on morality and the bible. Sociology and religion were used in the name of hatred and ignorance then as well as now. These marriages were in the belief of the majority, a tear in the social fabric of this great country. these relationships today are still looked upon with disdain and anger but the supreme court found that the bans were based on bias and of a moral majority, that in their judgment stating that banning races from intermarrying was an offense against human worth and dignity. At that time, 38 states still forbade interracial marriage. The remaining bans were struck down by the US Supreme Court in 1967. The struggle for interracial marriage was won on an argument for civil rights, one very similar to arguments used by those striving for a same sex wedding. I hope that Mr. Obama remembers what his childhood was like being hated by both blacks and white and being treated as an abomination and is a man strong enough to stand up and say we were wrong then and we are wrong now. I have not had the opportunity to fall in love with someone but i hope that if i do i have the ability to show them the same way his parents were given the right to show each other the love they felt. I do not compare myself to his parents but to their situation. I deserve the right to love and legally be with the one i love. Even if when that happens it is a man. This like interracial marriage, should not be an issue for politics but for me and my GOD. You can also do your part to put an end to this type of discrimination and unfair laws being created to devalue human worth and strip dignity from all Floridians. It is time for strong men to be in office, i hope you are willing to see and stand up for what is right not righteous as to the religious right. It's time for fundamentalist and orthodox leaders to address divorce, out-of-wedlock births, the exploding rate of births by single-parent mothers,What about the men who abandon these women? the ever increasing number of abandoned babies found in garbage cans with umbilical cords still only hours old before death, those that are left at firehouses and police stations. The ever increasing number of homeless and discarded children who have been put out on the streets and placed in foster care, those who are in orphanages that no one in their righteous community wants, Why are there so many? Why haven't the righteous stepped forward and taken these children in and given them the love and protection they are speaking about? These children were born from women and men raised in these traditional homes. What about children born with aids that die alone and unloved. Where is all this social awareness and caring in everyday life? Why did it only come out when a group that wants to be a part of this world and care for those the righteous have discarded as waste and claim to be doing such a great job at improving society and protecting children from harm have actually been the perpetrator's of the harm they are trying to protect children from, as it relates to their particular religious dogma. They must cease claiming that the failing of the traditional American family is the end result of adult actions of about 5% of the population seeking equality of benefits between committed partners. The result of the American family and it's failures lie at home, and the teaching of intolerance and hatred. Thank you Bruce McGuire - Show quoted text - P.S. to those i have attached your only a few of my friends but i want you to forward a copy to the office of the governor and all our state officials as well. The more the governors office receives the more he is likely to listen. Forward it to all your friends and have them do the same. We are Americans were deserve the right to be treated fairly and as equals. Not seccond class citizens

November 6, 2008