Why We Will Have Gay Marriage

Teresa R. Sayward is a New York State Assemblywoman. She weighed in recently on efforts in that state to make same-sex marriage legal. She has a gay son:

“We would spend long nights crying together and talking,” she told a full house of hushed lawmakers. “And one night I said to him, ‘You have to be what you are; you can’t be what people think you should be.’ ”

She is also a Republican conservative Catholic from upstate New York. But more importantly she is a mother and she wants her son to have the same rights and opportunities as every other son or daughter.

I know some of these people - traditional, conservative, Republican parents of gay children. These are the people whose personal experience and involvement is making gay acceptance and gay marriage a reality.