HETEROSEXUAL UNIONS END ON THEIR OWN

Thanks to David E. Smith, Executive Director of the Illinois Family Institute, (November 24 letters page), we know that 75 % of heartland residents in Pleasant Plains, IL oppose gay marriage. It would be interesting to know how many of those residents are divorced. If they mirror that great institution of heterosexual marriage, it would be approximately 50%. We should be encouraged by Mr. Smith's tireless efforts to prevent gay marriage since that horrible possibility could destroy enough straight marriages to raise the divorce rate to 60% or more.

Mr. Smith should be blessed with a long life of a hundred years or more. That will allow him many years to experience the enormous societal benefits that will occur when gay marriage is eventually fully legalized in the next five, ten or fifteen years.

But poor Mr. Smith may have doomed himself to spend all his precious remaining time working against the tide of history and human progress. He may even write his own epitath: "DON'T MOURN - CARRY ON TO PROTECT MARRIAGE AS WE KNEW IT".

Originally published in Glen Ellyn Sun, December 8, 2006