Government needs to get out of the marriage business and stick to civil unions for all people, regardless of gender issues. Separation of church and state mandates civil unions as a right of equals.

Marriage is a religious rite. It sanctifies the sexual union as a religious sacrament. You go to a temple, mosque, church or shaman for the hocus-pocus. Not a judge.

When the state assumes its rightful role as the issuer of civil unions exclusively, discrimination will assume its righteous place: Religion.

Cyndy Lee

Astoria