Friday, Oct. 18, 2002 | 6:07 a.m.
The "protectors of marriage" who support Question 2 mock the concepts of national unity and tolerance by seeking to deny rights to taxpaying citizens. Gay people have been around for as long as there has been religious nonsense and bigotry to condemn them, yet they will continue to form loving unions that all of the legislation in the world can't erase.
We all must live together on this earth, and tolerance of other people's way of life is how we make it work. Not long ago we saw just how ugly hateful fundamentalism can be, and the fact that Question 2 appears on the ballot at all shows just how little the "protectors of marriage" have learned in the aftermath. How dare they tell me how to live and whom to love and then attempt to make it public policy.
Those who speak of personal freedoms and rights, but who wouldn't tolerate losing their own rights, would eagerly deny those rights to their fellow citizens, their colleagues, their friends, their neighbors, their family. Their hypocritical ideals make them the enemies of freedom, not the protectors of it.
The diversity of our world should be celebrated, not vilified.
MICHAEL SCOTT Reno
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