How are same-sex couples a threat to other marriages?

On Sunday, Dec. 7, a spokesman for the Iowa Family Policy Center was cited in the Register advocating his bias against equality ("Gay Marriage Goes Before Iowa High Court This Week"). His reference to Iowa's 150 years of history in our great state is distorted and shameful.

Iowa has a rich and proud history of advocating civil rights, even in the face of intolerance. In 1851, Iowa was the third state to repeal its anti-miscegenation law that had denied individual freedom of choice in marriage partners on the basis of race.

t saddens me that people who have gay relatives in healthy, supportive and stable relationships, do not believe we are entitled to the same rights and responsibilities that are ascribed to [heterosexual] relationships. This includes hospital visitation, retirement benefits, family leave, health insurance, living together in nursing homes, and a thousand other rights that are currently denied to my partner and myself.

I am confused as to why my loving relationship with my partner of nearly seven years is somehow considered less valuable than those of other people in unhealthy, abusive, adulterous, or marriages that struggle to last even a couple of years.

I ask the Iowa Family Policy Center and its supporters how the enduring and loving relationship with my partner threatens them?

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