"To be" lives at the bottom of the power verbs list these days.  Well, sometimes.  No lack of power inhabits "Marriage is between a man and a woman."  Already, the collective gay-marriage Grinch prepares to seek annulments of the recent same-sex weddings in New York.  A reaction I expected.  Pot holes often litter roads to social change.

Hey, I understand both sides of the argument.  One half of my old-fashioned brain recites the man-and-woman marriage mantra.  The other half would never dream of denying my gay or lesbian friends the opportunity to marry.  Yet I manage to reconcile my inner dichotomy of opinion with the following manner of reasoning.  No man is less of a man because he loves a guy.  No woman is less of a woman because she loves a gal.  People are people.  Their love--their desire to share a committed relationship--should provide the wedding-license meter of measure.

In other words, I don't focus on the right to gay marriage.  Let others debate that thorny issue.  (And they probably will for a long time to come.) 

I focus on the right thing to do.

Warm wishes,

Laurel Anne Hill  (Author of "Heroes Arise")
http://www.laurelannehill.com