False claims should stop

Shame on the reject Referendum 71 group for printing and distributing wrong and misleading information.

First off, domestic partnerships are not marriages. Marriage is a “sacred union,” and a domestic partnership is a legal contract with no religious acknowledgment.

Secondly, don’t try to pass off that you’re trying to protect children. Reject R-71 is about adults’ misinterpreted religious views. I’m sick of hearing statistics that children are healthier emotionally and physically when raised by a mother and a father than in a household without both figures. This statistic is from studies comparing children of “traditional families” with those of (once sacredly married) divorced couples or absent parents.

Anyone against Referendum 71 should know about these statistics: Children raised with an openly gay parent or by a same-sex couple are more accepting of people’s differences. They are less likely to commit a violent crime and they develop more emotionally secure than children raised by “traditional families.” I’m no religious scholar, but doesn’t an accepting, peaceful, open-minded person sound a whole lot like what Christianity is supposed to teach you to be? Rejecting R-71 and teaching your children to discriminate doesn’t sound very Christlike. Vote yes on R-71.

Corey Fortune

Spokane