I cannot understand how Gerry Parmantier, in a Sept. 23 letter, “Laird wrong about marriage issue,” can claim that marriage between two people of the same sex will change the nature of his marriage, my marriage, or my parents’.
Marriage is about commitment. It’s about maturity and permanence and devotion. It’s about building a life together, and promising to be there in good times and in bad, in sickness and in health. Marriage is about saying “I do” in front of everyone you love, and promising the person you want to grow old with that you will be there, until death do you part.
Gay and lesbian couples raise children in happy, healthy households. They wake up, get ready, take the kids to school, go to work, come home, make dinner, hang out together, put the kids to bed, and do it all again, just like everyone else.
Laura Ellsworth
Vancouver
