By Gary Douglas Lennon |


INTRODUCTION

I’ve been doing journalism since about 1988. I was with a publishing Company on Long Island, NY mainly contributing as a photographer, but I had things to say about every shoot I did and learned how important the word is when accompanied by a photograph. An explanation, a story maybe behind the scenes, whatever, people like to know what is going on in a particular photo.

These days just writing is enough for me. It’s one of my artistic passions. I’m not well versed in grammar and spelling (thank you Grammarly) nor am I computer savvy. But I do know how to make a point and provide a personal POV.


This edition’s main focus is on Equal Marriage. I didn’t have to write about this as I’m sure there are plenty of other people more experienced in the topic. But I would like to express perhaps a different view on it. And being an equalist at heart, it seems a comfortable subject to get involved in.

I’ve never been a big proponent of marriage of any sort, looking at it as a legal contract that affords certain financial rights and tax incentives etc. And really, I feel if two people want to share a life together they should just make their own arrangements and do it.

But in the past five years or so, I began to realize that the love factor was involved, and isn’t that what we all want to prove to each other, I mean couples, proving their love as well as their rights as human beings. It all starts to become a bigger picture. To be denied this right is absolutely absurd. Who figures this stuff out in the moral sense? What politician or lawmaker can actually decide what’s right for some people and wrong for others? And about the religious factor.... there are still some devout purveyors of established organized religion that do not allow equal marriage to anyone. Well, it happens. Shamefully, but it happens.

In a world so crushed by some very serious events and a government in chaos I think love and peace is a very welcome breath of fresh air. If the Government recognizes the separation of church and state, then it should recognize the reparations of social reform and equality. For those who want to share their lives with another through an institution that’s now open for all.... by all means... go for it. Keep it preserved and always speak up if anything changes about it that jeopardizes anyone’s well-being.

This brings me in closing to remind everyone that we live for the purpose of living. Nothing more, nothing less. What expands from that while we are here is an opportunity to experience all the good we can find and shower the universe around us with the embers of that positivity. For all.


Gary Douglas Lennon lives in Aberdeen, WA, but hails from New York (the burbs of Long Island, East Rockaway, a historic bay town on the south coast).
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