Rowina (9 Oct 2012)
"To Frank M., mourning for my home state of Washington"


 

You say you hope there will be the Big One quake before the people of Washington State pass the Gay Marriage law in November.
You say they are sure to pass it because of propaganda in favor of it.

Washington is where I was born and raised and lived the best part of my life.  I was a liberal Washingtonian like the people you describe
who will pass this law.  I learned the hard way what this liberal agenda really means to the family and to society.  I had several really close
homosexual friends--five  close ones, all men (I didn't know what a lesbian was until attacked by one in my freshman year at Stanford).
I knew one of these men from the time we were in kindergarten--he grew up to be a well-known musician.  I knew another from the time I
was a pre-teen in ballet school--he grew up to found a world-famous ballet company, along with his cousin, whom I also knew very well.
Another was a man I met in college and dated, who had an interest in Christianity as I did--he became a Catholic priest.  Another was an
Episcopal priest, a man admirable in many ways.  There are others but those are the ones who stand out in my life's journey.  

For them and the culture in which they grew up, I mourn.  I will have to say that no understanding is possible by ME, at least, as to why
this tragedy happened.  I know these people did not set out to do evil.  That is all I know.  I pray for them, whatever happens.