Slapping Back

A bold tell-it-like-it-is letter in the Oregonian:

In his July 2 letter, Karl Rohde opines that "to give gays unions and to call them 'marriages' is a slap in the face to billions of religious people around the world."

And who, I would ask Rohde, is more deserving of a resounding, global slap in the face than the billions of religious people around the world whose belief systems are the very cause of the intolerance, hatred and human rights abuses heaped upon gays (among many others they disapprove of) since their beginnings? America endured a bloody civil war to end biblically sanctioned human slavery. 

It seems to me a slap in the face to end marriage inequality is the least we can do.

BURL ROSS
Lake Oswego