Granny and I have been e-mailing back and forth for the last few days and the topic got onto gay and lesbian people. Over the course of a few e-mails, she said that she did not believe in them (like they do not exist) and that it is all in their heads. I know Granny is very christian now, and I respect her right to choose, so I constructed a reply e-mail that I was very proud of and wanted to share it because it just flowed out of my heart:

> Granny,
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> Everything is in our heads if you want to look at it that way. Why does a rose smell sweet and feces does not? It is in our heads that we make that distinction. Why do I love Dean so much? He fits the idea in my head of what a partner should be. Some people get well from taking a placebo, does that mean that their cure is any less valid than ones who took actual medication? No because the end result is the same. For gay people the end result is love and happiness just like you or I. Who is anyone to deny that right to them? If there is a god and it thinks it is wrong, who are we to throw it in their faces? Why can’t we let them live a happy productive life while they are here if they are going to spend eternity in hell? Is that too much to ask of religious people? If god is real, and what the Christian interpretation of gay in the bible is real, then let their punishment be hell in hell and not hell on earth.
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> Love,
> Kaston