Sexuality is personal. Love is universal. Fear is the opposite of love.

The Bible says, "Perfect love casts out all fear."

I dislike the politicization of sex. This is the opposite of that.

And so...it's positive.

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Thanks for this important story. I just want to add that throughout his campaign and throughout the Massachusetts fight for gay marriage, Patrick was unflinching in his support. This was long before he had any idea that his daughter was gay. She talked about the pride she felt in his principled stand.

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Marriage is - or should be - a legal agreement. It confers certain monetary and inheritance rights to the members of the contract. As such, I have never understood how religion continues to play a part in the arrangment. All legal "marriages" should be civil unions in which the parties involved swear to uphold the legal rights and restrictions connected with the laws of the state or whatever governing agency is in control.

If anyone wants a religious ceremony, it should be in the same category as baptism or a bar mitzvah. There are no legal requirements for these religious traditions, so why do we as a culture insist on picking one religious tradition for legal involvement?

Once it's established that marital-type civil unions are a legal agreement, and not some kind of religious "joining by god," the entire "marriage is between one man and one woman" thing becomes moot. Then the government would, or at least should, lose its ability to decide who is permitted to engage in the legal arrangement according to gender or sexual orientation.

Isn't it amazing how the same people who believe the government has no right to regulate business also believe the government has the right to interfere with the most personal decisions we can make as human beings. Oh, well. Logic was never part of the rightwing agenda.

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Considering that my favourite film star Drew Barrymore( who is white-but this is besides the point) is an avowed bisexual who reportedly taunted and ostracized by her late father John Drew Barrymore Jr over her sexuality, I can only admire Deval Patrick for his humanity and refusal to let Church teaching to come between him and the child that sprung from his loins NO MATTER WHAT HIS PERSONAL ATTITUDE TO HOMOSEXUALITY/LESBIANISM!
WOULD THAT ALAN KEYES AND DICK CHENEY HAD SUCH AN ATTITUDE!(Keyes has reportedly disowned his daughter after she "came out")

Terry

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*Beams*

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