Defending Your Life #2: “We Are Not A Christian Nation”
Obviously, you don’t have to be the founder of a gay rights organization to make a great case for same-sex marriage. Take Kermit Heid, who wrote this letter to The Salt Lake Tribune in Salt Lake City, Utah (yes, home of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, the Mormons):
I couldn’t have said it better myself. So, remind your friends who throw the Bible in your face as the reason you can’t get married that we are not a Christian nation.
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