To the Editor:

This is in response to Ray Koenig's editorial asserting that "Traditional Marriage" supporters are not bigots.

To begin with, I should point out that the words in his editorial are not his own. They were taken verbatim from a "Featured Alert" put out by a group called "The Center For Moral Clarity". Here is a link to the original material:

http://capwiz.com/cmc/issues/alert/?alertid=11370891

Let's assume for a moment that failing to cite his source and signing his name to something he did not write was an honest oversight, and address the issues it presents.

While I agree that "[i]n almost every state where voters have had the opportunity to affirm the definition of marriage as the union of one man and one woman, they have done so" I can hardly imagine how majority opinion is ever a reasonable arbiter of what is and is not a fact.

Majority opinion is not always right and, at times, it can be downright dangerous. There are a multitude of examples that prove this point, but the most poignant I can come up with is the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson supreme court decision that held up the doctrine of "Separate but Equal".

This decision paved the way for that embarrassing period of US history that found "Whites Only" and "Black's Only" signs in restaurants, public restrooms, train cars and more. The majority supported that idea and the majority was wrong.

It was also a dangerous idea to the brave Americans who stood up to the injustices and refused to live as second-class citizens.

Fortuantely, we ended that era in 1957 when the Little Rock Nine entered Central High School under the protection of 1,000 members of the 101st Airborne Division of the United States Army.

Putting public opinion aside, there's nothing bigoted or hateful about supporting "Traditional Marriage."

Men and woman get married every day and it generally doesn't hurt anyone. What is bigoted and hateful is suggesting that we roll the clock back to 1896 and create a new doctrine of "Separate but Equal."

By advocating the opinion that consenting same sex adults should not be able to enter into the same marriage contract my wife and I entered, you are doing just that.

Chuck Wolber

Federal Way