Letter to the Editor: Home for the Holidays

I received this letter in an email after airing my show on BlogTalkRadio Sunday evening.  I thought it was worth sharing!

Hello,

I was listening to your show on BlogTalkRadio last night, and really enjoyed your show.  The very fisrt part of your show, you were talking about LGBT homes.  I wanted to thank you for bringing this topic up.  Throughout the “same-sex” marriage debate (and I would like to also thank you for stating it shouldn’t be called same-sex marriage, but simply marriage) this is perhaps one element those who oppose same-sex marriage never stop to think they are denying those of us in the LGBT community.  One of the arguments you hear time and time again from those who oppose same-sex marriage is that we (the LGBT community) have everything that our heterosexual counterparts have, except calling our relationship “marriage”.

Well, without marriage, we DON’T have what everyone else has.  We don’t have the right to build a legal home.  Some don’t believe we can be prevented from hospital visitation, insurance benefits, etc., which we con’t have those rights, but even on top of that, we are being denied the opportunity to build a home.  Something that heterosexuals take for granted.

Just as you mentioned on your show, there are many of us who live in houses, but not homes.  It is very hard to build a home.  Even if your straight, building a home comes with a degree of difficulty, so I would ask those who oppose same-sex marriage to imagine how it could be next to impossible for those of us who are not allowed the right to marry, and share our lives with one another to the same degree they are, to ever achieve a sense of home.

Thank you again!

K Marsh