I’ve been reading the letters to the editor about the marriage of one man and one woman in the papers and have been left with some questions that, I believe, have not been addressed by either side.
• Please define what constitutes "man"/"male"?
• Please define what constitutes "Woman"/"female"?
• Are you considering "only outward physical appearance?"
• Are we, as human beings, not more than simply outward appearance?
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• Should we not also consider a human being’s chromosomes in our definition?
• Another thing we should, I think, consider is a human being’s DNA?
This issue is not as simple as the letters seem to make it to be.
Another thing that bothers me greatly is that there is already a law in Minnesota concerning the issue dealing with the situation. Thus nothing will be changed either way. The danger with this vote, I believe, is that a yes vote places it in our state constitution by a simple majority. Once it is in the constitution it takes a two-thirds vote to have it removed. In other words once its there it is almost impossible to get it removed.
David Barker
Wabasha
