August 16, 2019
Dear editor;
Regarding ‘A disagreement in detail on State law,’ letter in the August 15 issue of The Voice, I too was dismayed at news reports of governor JB Pritzker’s signing HB 246. Wayne Lela expressed his dismay in what I took as a religious viewpoint.
At the time same-sex marriage became U.S. law, I wondered if it was too religious an issue to legislate. If our government was just in formation now, perhaps the law would have started as legal covenant, giving rights to couples in any context
A separate category in today’s legal code should have been civil union to give all the rights without religious overtone.
By signing HB246 a snow-ball effect is what I predict. School districts can’t bring religion and morality into the classroom; it is against the separation of church and state. So, how can that new state law even be constitutional? I express my opposition to teaching about lesbian, gay (LGBTQ) culture. However, for the opposite reason Lela expressed. I am in favor of full rights for all types of covenant partnerships and would not want national “same-sex marriage” to be repealed over State over-reach and mis-application.
Mary Goetsch
Aurora