To the editor:

We join local Kansas legislators in opposing a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage. As columnists and other letters to the Journal-World have already shown, such an amendment imposes one particular religious perspective, is based on ignorance and prejudice, will produce no demonstrable social good and will do nothing to support heterosexual marriages, such as ours, that need no interference from the government to maintain their loving mutuality.

While denying equal constitutional protection (which is unconstitutional by definition), the proposed amendment would also do nothing at all to affect the socially destructive, short-lived marriages we see in statistics and headlines, whose only qualification for “sanctity” is different sex organs. We are not afraid of married gay couples, and we ask other reasonable, ethical people to join in protesting this unjust proposed amendment.

Haskell Springer,

Anne Fowler,

Lawrence