Open Letter

Hello everyone, I am writing because there seems to be quite the backlash from my mass messaging about our wedding blog. I would like it to be known that it was not targeted at anyone in particular, face book only allows you to send a message to 20 people at a time and some family members tend to fall one after the other in my face book contact list. The content of the message, was automatically populated based off of the latest post on the blog, it was not a message targeted at the people we love who may be "conservatives". It is no surprise, that Philip and I are politically liberal, we believe that Same-Sex Marriage should be legal, and that it is within our constitutional rights as Americans. We financially support organizations that help fight for those rights, we are political people. That said, we did not intend to ostracize those who may disagree, we respect the variety of opinions; which is why we choose to remain in relationship with people who are different from us, we value diversity of ideology and try to remain open to dialogue. 

As our wedding approaches these differences become more clear, and many questions are raised about how far one takes their support of us as a couple when they politically or religiously oppose our union. Frankly, we want to be surrounded by people on that day that love us, and will choose to help hold us accountable to remain in relationship whatever may come; who want to celebrate with us. We take no offense to those who choose not to come, and will be inviting based on relationship, not on political stance or faith. 

in peace, Paul and Philip