"...with liberty and justice for all." "We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness..." In a particular turn of events, when I was in Boston on Thursday, I met the couple whose landmark case is driving the effort for same-sex marriages in Massachusetts -- turns out one of the partners is my mom's best friend's sister. They're getting married on Monday after having been a couple for over 20 years and, as their daughter said in an interview with CNN that will air Monday morning, "They've been together longer than any of my married friends' parents." Personally, I still don't understand why people are trying to block gay marriage. You'd think that people -- especially in Massachusetts, a liberal state -- would remember the anguish this country went through in the past with suffrage and the civil rights movements, and they'd realize that those fights shouldn't have happened -- not here. Not here in the United States where our country was founded on the principles of all men being created equal (though note the use of the word "men" and not "people") with the right to pursue their own happiness; not here in the United States where every morning, millions of schoolchildren around the country pledge allegiance to a flag that stands for a country that gives liberty and justice "to all." Let's change those wordings then, if it's not for all. I think the Declaration of Independence might sound better if we changed it to say, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all white, heterosexual, middle- to upper-class Christian males are created equal." And the Pledge of Allegiance might have a nice ring if you end it by saying "with liberty and justice for some." The hypocrisy is astounding when people are fighting for civil rights for themselves and try to deny them to others. And the thing that really gets me is that some people are still trying to paint homosexuality as a moral sin and get gay marriage banned on those grounds. Well, isn't a moral sin open for interpretation -- and, more importantly, isn't that definition of a moral sin based in religion? And aren't we supposed to keep church and state separate? Some woman in Boston, during a rally opposing gay marriage, said, "I know the best, safest place for a child to be raised is in a stable home with one mother and one father." I wonder how many studies she did on that to arrive at that stunning conclusion. I wonder how many stable homes of gay partners she went to and then went and visited houses of married couples where there was domestic abuse or alcoholism or neglect. Just because you're straight, it doesn't make you a good parent or an honest and upstanding person.