Blame it on Gay Marraige - $1,000 dollar reward

Local Estes Park resident Paul Sterling is putting his money where his mouth is. He’s offering $1,000 to any anti-gay marriage politician or church that can prove to a panel of counselors and therapists that gay marriage has caused any a healthy heterosexual marriage to fail. He will pay the funds to a charity of the demonstrator’s choosing.

Sterling says with palpable frustration, “In 20 years of studying and teaching communication skills, not once have I met anyone who has said their marriage was great until the gay guys down the street got married (or for that matter - started living together).”

He continues, “No one has ever told me they had a good job with great pay but when the gay women next door got married, they just stopped going to work, started drinking and before they knew it were beating the wife and kids.”

“And I have heard almost every kind of story, teaching The Language of Peace (Nonviolent Communication) to prisoners.” But he’s never heard of gay marriage causing anybody to go to ruin.

In closing he says, “Put up the proof or go back to work… and do something really productive and useful to help the families of Colorado and the USA. What really scares me is that, with all the real issues we face, the politicians and churches could say gay marriage is a threat and keep a straight face.”

Sterling lists nine other issues that would be a better use of the time, finances and efforts of Colorado politicians: environmental policy, global warming, US dependency on foreign oil, immigration, the overseas flight of technical jobs, encroachment of the government on individual’s freedoms, and the biggest debt our nation has ever faced, not to mention the confusing state of tax redistribution to the lower classes, and the War on Terror that’s terrifying the world.