Allow people who love to live in peace

The magic word in Cynthia Malone's March 17 letter (“Compromise for same-sex couples”) should be “choice.”

Heterosexual couples have the choice to be married or live as “common law” partners. People who love should have the choice to marry or live together, regardless of their sexual orientation. Neither state or federal government should have the right to mandate who can love or who can marry. Marriage and partnering is all about loving and seeking to make a life together.

I wish I understood why so many people let Bob Vander Plaats scare them into a frenzy about loving relationships. I think he and his kind would still be telling Rosa Parks to move to the back of the bus and hanging the black man who dared to love a white woman.

Have we not yet gotten to be a more intelligent, kinder, more accepting people? Allow people who love to live in peace.

Judith Antill

Coralville