You are conflating the secular government's need to track family units, or households, for tax and social benefits purposes with religious unions, which in certain churches are restricted to the joining of a single man and single woman. Our society already acknowledges this difference in the case of divorcees. The secular government currently and correctly recognizes family units in which the adults are divorced from a prior union, while certain churches do not officially recognize such unions within their congregations. There is no reason why the secular government should not likewise recognize a family unit in which the adults are of the same sex, and let specific religions determine for themselves whether to recognize such unions within their congregations. This is precisely why we have a separation of church and state, and it is shameful that you, as a good Republican, should forget this and choose to elevate the beliefs of certain religions over those of others in an issue that should solely matter to the secular government in purely a secular way.
Sincerely,
Alex Reutter
Ward 7, Burlington VT
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