KMG365
Well-Known Member
jorats said:I have to say, I was a little bothered by the immature statement made to ridicule the person in question. I have no idea who she is, I don't want to know who she is but for the gay community to decide they will rise up and take advantage of this situation by making fun of her is just distasteful.
This is the full text of the "apology" letter at the centre of all of this:
Apology said:An Open Apology to Amy Koch on Behalf of All Gay and Lesbian Minnesotans
Dear Ms. Koch,
On behalf of all gays and lesbians living in Minnesota, I would like to wholeheartedly apologize for our community's successful efforts to threaten your traditional marriage. We are ashamed of ourselves for causing you to have what the media refers to as an "illicit affair" with your staffer, and we also extend our deepest apologies to him and to his wife. These recent events have made it quite clear that our gay and lesbian tactics have gone too far, affecting even the most respectful of our society.
We apologize that our selfish requests to marry those we love have cheapened and degraded traditional marriage so much that we caused you to stray from your own holy union for something more cheap and tawdry. And we are doubly remorseful in knowing that many will see this as a form of sexual harassment of a subordinate.
It is now clear to us that if we were not so self-focused and myopic, we would have been able to see that the time you wasted diligently writing legislation that would forever seal the definition of marriage as being between one man and one woman, could have been more usefully spent reshaping the legal definition of "adultery."
Forgive us. As you know, we are not church-going people, so we are unable to fully appreciate that "gay marriage" is incompatible with Christian values, despite the fact that those values carry a biblical tradition of adultery such as yours. We applaud you for keeping that tradition going.
And finally, shame on us for thinking that marriage is a private affair, and that our marriage would have little impact on anyone's family. We now see that marriage is more than that. It is an agreement with society. We should listen to the Minnesota Family Council when it tells us that marriage is about being public, which explains why marriages are public ceremonies. Never did we realize that it is exactly because of this societal agreement that the entire world is looking at you in shame and disappointment instead of minding its own business.
From the bottom of our hearts, we ask that you please accept our apology.
Thank you.
John Medeiros
Minneapolis MN
Amy Koch has used her position as a state senator to promote her agenda - an agenda that denies loving couples the right to get married - because she views such marriages as a threat to traditional values. Now that Ms. Koch has been exposed as a fraud, however, it is only fair that she be subjected to the consequences of her actions. People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
The apology letter I quoted above merely illustrates the absurd arguments used against same-sex marriage. Ms. Koch essentially made herself a target and that's why it's directed at her, but it could honestly be addressed to any number of politicians who don't practice what they preach.
Incidentally, on more than one occasion, the United States Supreme Court has ruled that marriage is a basic civil right. As such, it should be open to all adult couples who freely choose to enter into such a union. Gay marriage is a threat only to the values of the ignorant and the bigoted.