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Monday, June 29, 2009 12:00 AM

Crying foul on Martina Navratilova

The tennis star's legal woes remind us that even gay icons have some growing up to do about same-sex marriage
By Louis Bayard

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  • Sunday, June 28, 2009 06:29 PM

    Sorry, marriage laws either apply to us 100% or not at all.

    It's unfair to deny us the right to marry, and then hold us to marriage dissolution standards. It's unfair. Either give us the right to marry and saddle us with all the legal rights and obligations, or deny it to us and let us just be single people for all purposes.

    I don't know the law in Florida, but while my sympathies are with the dumped girlfriend, I say as far as legal responsibilities go, they should go no farther than our legal rights. And if you don't like the outcome, then make gay marriage legal!

    —Dana Runs Read Dana Runs's other letters

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