<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 24pt; text-transform: uppercase; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"> A POEM IN SUPPORT OF SAME-SEX MARRIAGE</span><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><font color="#444444" face="Arial, sans-serif" size="4"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"> Author unknown</span></font></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"> Wait, Wait<br style="box-sizing: border-box;"> Let me get this straight<br style="box-sizing: border-box;"> You think<br style="box-sizing: border-box;"> gay marriage is bad?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 1.25rem; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">You’re ok with love,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">but only if it’s straight,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">but not lady-lady or lad-lad?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 1.25rem; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">What’s the difference,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">may I ask,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">between the union of two souls?<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">does their gender really matter,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">or is your vision just marred in coal?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 1.25rem; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">If love makes the world go round,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">why should only you be allowed to spin?<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">why not if she wants to marry her,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">or if he wants to marry him?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 1.25rem; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">How would you feel<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">If I stopped you from marrying your soulmate,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">because of a notion I have,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">that narrow minded people are ‘not natural’<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">and that their minds are bad?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 1.25rem; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">You don’t see me stopping you<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">from making your marital choice,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Then what makes you think<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">that on this issue, people need your voice?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 1.25rem; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">I am glad to know that you have your rights,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">and your life is going on just fine,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">so, please go on living your own life,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">and let me live mine.</span></p></div>—————————————————<br><br><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">http://www.MoscowCares.net</span></div><div><br></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom “free to be you and me” Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><br></div><div>“A stranger is just a friend you haven’t met.”</div><div>- Roy E. 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