Letter Of The Day

John K. Wilson would have us believe he is concerned only with the health of homosexuals when he suggests the government prevent them from being married. The fact is that every one of the health risks he identifies is equally true for heterosexuals.

I agree with the Register on civil unions, but I will go a step further and suggest the government get out of the business of marriage ceremonies and into the business of civil unions.

Separate the church marriage ceremony from the state legal contract and never mix them again.

Thomas Jefferson knew what he was talking about when he articulated the importance of the separation of church and state: “Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God … legislature should make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, thus building a wall of separation between church and state.”
— Carl E. Olsen, Des Moines.
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