The assumption that normal human sexuality remains limited only to straight couples has led to persecution of other forms. The issue is comparable to abolition before the Civil War.

It may be hard to imagine today that our forebearers believed and practiced slavery, but such was the case. We still suffer the consequences of the justification asserting the inferiority of the slaves.

The abolitionists took big risks to affirm human equality. Sexual equality belongs to human equality. May the Allies prosper so that someday we can look back upon sexual prejudice with the same puzzlement as today we look back on slavery.

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It's past time, really. Those of us who are "straight but not narrow" need to come out of the closet, too.

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Google in Capt. Josh Gibbs U.S.M.C. to find out what happened to Capt. Gibbs for writing a piece refuting General Peter Pace's comments regarding gays in military. It was published in the Marine Corp. Times and he was nearly court martialed. A straight man who should be allowed to lead, but sadly, not enough of a brown noser.

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This is a nice piece, but anyone who stepped into a Unitarian Universalist Church in the last decade would know there are many straights who speak out for gay rights. I am one of them. I have actually written opinion pieces for our local progressive paper and letters to editor or our local daily (a conservative outlet).

We need to keep speaking out and showing it isn't only gays who feel strongly about their rights; many straights do as well. ANd not just UUs, I hasten to add.

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