The New Jersey legislature is holding hearings on marriage equality, also known as gay marriage. Here is the letter I wrote to State Senator Tom Kean, a Republican who represents my district.
New Jersey residents, I hope you will write your own.

 Hi. I am a heterosexual, married for 17 years, with 2 children, living in your District. I am writing today to urge you to support marriage equality in New Jersey.
This is the civil rights issue of our day. I have gay friends and a gay brother who have been with their partners for longer than I've been with my husband; they have had civil unions but that isn't the same as being married. And they should have that right.
I know opponents of marriage equality argue same sex marriage is "wrong," "unnatural," and "just doesn't seem right."
In past generations, some white people didn't support the civil rights movement also because it "felt" wrong, unnatural, to have blacks share water fountains or to permits blacks and whites to marry.
I believe we will look back on this period when couples who love each other were forbidden to marry in precisely the same way.
Please, please, support marriage equality because it is the right thing to do. Stumble It!