The arrogance of the members of Congress is breathtaking! I’m going in my 7th year of living apart from my beloved, who lives in nation that is so isolated from the rest of the world that he can’t text me, and due to repressive Internet control measures in his country, most of our emails to each other aren’t even received anymore. Phone calls are extremely difficult to make to him. I’m more than outraged by the way the government of the United States is treating me! These are not just laws that are depriving LGBT Americans of their equality and happiness! I’m ready for civil disobedience. Disobeying laws that are patently unjust is the very core of what it means to be an American.

Please reflect on some of the wisdom communicated to us by Thomas Jefferson, the 3rd President of the United States:

“The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the Constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first. ”

“In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty. ”

“No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another, and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him. ”

The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and by acting on the law of the strongest breaks up the foundations of society. ”

“Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.”