Marriage is threatening the sanctity of my opposite-sex civil union.

When my partner and I became engaged, little did we know the legal and ethical oppositions we would face as an opposite-sex couple.

Not wanting to participate in a historically oppressive and exclusive practice of marriage, a civil union seemed to best suit our needs. As a mixed-sexuality couple and avid supporters of LGBT rights, we wanted to distance ourselves from an institution that openly violates civil rights while still receiving legal recognition.

However, I constantly find myself confronted by opposite-sex civil union discrimination and heterosexual marriage rhetoric.

Rarely, if ever, can I go out in public without being surrounded by marriage propaganda that is plain un-American. Thomas Jefferson is spinning in his grave, no doubt.

Words like “sacred” and phrases that describe marriage as the “truth experienced by virtually every civilization in every nation since the dawn of time” are limiting my freedom of religious ambivalence.

“There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female, for you are all one,” (Galatians 3:28) the Bible states. Clearly, if there were an almighty god, she or he did not intend for marriage to have gender restrictions and would likely believe this hetero-exclusive form of matrimony to be an abomination.

The minute sector of the population that opposes gay marriage is nothing but a special interest group that is forcibly pushing a heterosexual agenda.

Because this group cannot come to terms with its own choice of heterosexual lifestyles, civil unions are not recognized by the federal government leaving our options for employment and housing that would recognize our relationship greatly limited. How am I supposed to explain this to my dog and cats?

Additionally, in schools across the country, public and private alike, schools are forcing a white, heterosexual male’s perspective even when we know this to not be historically accurate. We must stop feeding innocent children these lies and shield them from textbooks that cater to the morally-bankrupt heterosexual agenda. If we allow this agenda into the classrooms, what’s next? Marriage licence fees tacked on to school registration?

Kids are being raised to think it’s normal for only men and women to be married and for something to be defunct about opposite-sex unmarried couples. This is utterly unnatural.

They will grow up seeing everyone else’s parents committed and in love, regardless of gender expression or sexual identity, and be confused. Children will have no concept of what a relationship truly is and will be taunted and teased by their peers. Won’t somebody please think of the children?

Heterosexual married couples openly flaunt their perverted lifestyles in public spaces and leave little to the imagination. However, as an American citizen I believe that what everyone does consensually in the privacy of their homes should be subject to judgment. That said, married couples are tolerable, as long as they don’t act like it in public.

So, as my partner and I begin evolve our separate lives into one, we will continue our fight against the evils of the heterosexual agenda and will proceed to push the DOCSA (Defense of Common Sense Act) into legislation.