Advocating for...idiots?

I came across this article and was impelled to write a response letter:

http://www.publicadvocateusa.org/news/article.php?article=4551

I’m less than shocked – public advocate USA sounds like a diplomatic voice for the people and yet your gay-bashing office is located in Virginia. Who else but the south to think they know what’s best for the country? You may feel vindicated in rallying to deny gay people the right to be together, through a union or a marriage, but a valid point that was apparently overlooked is that you have no right, no place, no real knowledge of anybody’s life but your own, and that is true for any person in the world. So I’m wondering, how dare you try and decide what’s best for the country? What makes your opinion worthy when such obvious circumstances are about to birth a civil revolution like so many in the past? I know that the government’s purpose is to create, reinforce, and retain smooth operation from a top-down approach and accordingly laws must be put in place as guidelines. What I don’t know is how your purpose – banning two people of the same sex rights that any other ‘straight’ person can readily pursue – benefits yourself, your state, your region or your country. How exactly could two men being together act to the detriment of anyone else? If your twisted realm of thinking is imagining that allowing gay marriage will amount to all straight marriages being reneged, you are misinformed, and causing more harm and good.

Think about it: two gay men, typically educated and employed, without children pulling in decent salaries and happily living their lives in a community, including paying taxes to that community, etc. Then the opposite extreme: a man and woman with many children, uneducated, unmotivated, accepting welfare and unemployment instead of searching for a job to better their lives, and jeopardizing the success and healthy upbringing of their children. To be clear in my example, your group is advocating that it would be just fine for a man and woman to have as many children as they want, and have no regulation or hopes of leaving their close-minded community and bettering themselves and their children’s’ lives rather than two men or women together bringing money and wishing/promoting acceptance into their lives and towns? Obviously these are just scenarios and I don’t typecast those relationships as typical of straight people or gay people, I’m just going with the trend as I have seen it.

I myself am a 23 year old young professional, born and raised in NH, attended UNH with no financial assistance from my family, now in my third year of federal employment conserving land and natural resources across the country. I am an athlete: gymnast and dancer with goals to continue a successful career in both conservation and dance. I am extremely family and friend-oriented and have a huge network of people that love and support me. I want to be married, some day, and maybe have children too. What exactly, besides your unwarranted judgments and false accusations of blasphemy, makes me a bad person or unworthy of those things that I have worked all my life for??? Nothing is the correct answer. And what do you those in your group do with their lives, aside from ruining dreams of others? Your purpose should evolve from terrorizing innocent gay people into one that advocates for all marriages and all people. How will you even attain success without a group effort that includes everyone?

I have no shame and will continue to pursue greater achievements all my life, even more so than the typical white American straight college grad trapped into the traditional idea of the way life “should” be. I am happy, healthy, educated, motivated and already successful at a young age, and without enemies or naysayers. My life is worthy of marriage, children and happiness and I wish your group wisdom to accept what the world is, and humbleness to admit your wrongdoings.

Some points to consider:

Area
% are or have been divorced
South
27%
Midwest
27%
West
26%
Northeast
19%

The Associated Press computed divorce statistics from data supplied by the U.S. Census Bureau and the National Center for Health.4 They found that Nevada had the highest divorce rate, at 8.5 divorces per 1,000 people in 1998. Nevada has had a reputation as a quickie divorce location for decades. People from other states visited Nevada, fulfilled their residency requirements, got divorced and returned home single.
The data showed that the highest divorce rates were found in the Bible Belt. "Tennessee, Arkansas, Alabama and Oklahoma round out the Top Five in frequency of divorce...the divorce rates in these conservative states are roughly 50 percent above the national average" of 4.2/1000 people.
11 southern states (AL, AR, AZ, FL, GA, MS, NC, NM, OK, SC and TX averaged 5.1/1000 people. (LA data is not available; TX data is for 1997).

Nine states in the Northeast (CT, MA, ME, NH, NJ, NY, PA, RI, VT) averaged only 3.5/1000 people.

"Bible belt has nation's worse divorce rate," CNN.com, 1999-NOV-12. Online at: http://www.cnn.com/ (Cache copy as of 2000-FEB-11. The page has since expired.) A similar report is at: http://www.divorcereform.org/