“no one has the “right” to sin”, claims john stec, an engineer who lives and works in the covington, virginia area, who wrote his opinion in a local roanoke newspaper in response to the paper’s support of the enda bill.

You craftily did not fully explain what “equality” means in your editorial defending this bill and its natural trajectory (employer-covered health benefits for their partners). If your “equality” means equating the ages-old institution of traditional marriage with two men doing disgusting, highly unsanitary things, then I couldn’t disagree with you more. But if you meant giving homosexuals similar employment opportunities as heterosexuals, then that’s OK, as long as they keep their physical affectations to themselves, just as heterosexuals must, in the workplace.

“age-old” institution? marriage changes by the decade. “two men doing disgusting, highly unsanitary things”? what about a het couple doing disgusting, highly unsanitary things. or a lesbian couple doing disgusting, highly unsanitary things. or a single man doing disgusting, highly unsanitary things.

“as long as they keep their physical affectations to themselves, just as heterosexuals must, in the workplace.” oh? het couples don’t splatter their pictures all over their desks? kiss when one visits the other in the office? arm in arm as they walk out of the office?

grasping at straws to cover up ones hatred of their neighbor - sounds like a sin to me.