I am considered a good American citizen by all standards. I pay my taxes. I work full time but I also volunteer at least 4 hours a week at a local rehab clinic. I donate whatever personal income I can every year to humanitarian organizations. I personally take care of an elderly that has been abandoned by the family, and I do not even claim him as a dependent on my taxes. Yet, I still rent and cannot afford my own home. I do what I can because I see it as the right thing to do, not because I am wealthy or that I have more time to spare than any other full time working citizens.

And I see many neurologically handicapped children in the rehab clinic who were victims of mothers abusing hard drugs and these children will never have any quality of life, until they are dead... I often wonder, is abortion wrong in all cases...?

According to the Christian Bible, I guess it is...

And I am a homosexual man, and that is not a personal choice (trust me on this). So, despite the humanitarian work I do, which is more than any of the straight co-workers or neighbors that I know, I am not entitled to marry the person of my choice as they can. That means that if my partner and I raise a child that he adapted, which no one wanted, if he happens to die before me and before the child is an independent adult, I will not be have custody of this child. The child will have to seek out strangers for foster care, away from a home she is happy growing up in.

How has legal marriage been associated with the Bible in this country? Marriage has existed for centuries in many cultures before there was ever the Christian Bible. Marriage is a legal binding agreement, not a religious ceremony. So what about those American couples who are not Christians and marry without the presence of a Bible?

I am good American citizen by all standards, so why am I denied this equal right as my straight counter parts? Just because the Bible said so?? Wait, I do not even believe in the Christian Bible, so why should this apply to me? Why should this apply to any good American citizen who do not believe in the Bible (there are plenty, trust me). I am not asking for special rights, just equal rights. Last time I check, America is the land that celebrates diversity. Last time I checked, America is not a religious state. Last time I checked, the Bible is not the law of this country.

Bible this Bile that, makes no sense to me, why should it apply to a good American citizen like me, where does it say in our constitution that the Christian Bible is the law..?