Members of the Manchester University Community Against HJR-6

As someone who cannot stand discrimination in any form, I am against HJR-6

It is disgusting to shame fellow Americans because it doesn't agree with your narrow minded bafoonary. I want to live in a place where everyone feels valued. People are born how they are born and I embrace diversity as it makes this world a better place.

Parent of a Manchester U student and member of a Church of the Brethren congregation. Absolutely against this.

As a civil/equal rights supporter, I am against HJR-6.

I'm disgusted by the fact that my alma mater is even considering this to be okay. "Not giving an opinion" is the same as agreeing with it. Stand up for what is right. One love. Cut the boundaries.

Love is love, no matter the gender. Marriage is a human right that should be available to all.

stand for equal justice

Marriage by definition is between one man and one woman!!

Equality for all. Who are we to say that someone is a lesser person and doesn't deserve the same rights.

Respect your past ... Do the right thing.

This is a civil rights issue, period! The intimate relationship of marriage doesn't need a piece of paper to be real. However if marriage is a civil contract that is a social institution it needs to be equally available to all citizens, no matter what. It is not just a legal imperative it is a moral one.

I grew up in the Church of the Brethren and chose Manchester as my college because of family tradition and its Brethren heritage of peace keeping and social justice. As a lesbian alumni I am dismayed and disheartened at the hypocrtical actions of the board and the president. You are on the wrong side of history and I feel sorry for you that you are allowing petty worries to cloud your judgement of what is right.

I oppose this amendment. Manchester has always valued equality but their action toward this closed minded amendment doesn't say it so. We will not live in silence.

I'm against HJR-6!

I feel betrayed by the Cabinet! I stand with those opposed to injustice and do not understand how you could look away!

MU must be on the side of justice and the right side of history.

I believe that we need to stand up for equal rights for all citizens at all times. Manchester College taught me to fight for civil rights of those being oppressed, that is why I oppose HJR-6 and believe Manchester University should too!

Come on, Manchester. Stand up as an institution for what is right. Marriage is between two people who love one another. Period. Do the right thing and make a stand for equal rights.

As a Manchester alum (class of 2002) I am disheartened by their lack of spine on this important issue.

The status quo is that gay citizens are not equal in this state or this country. Whether HJR-6 passes or fails, I will still not have the right to marry my partner of six and a half years. The dire nature of this was made very clear to me only a few weeks ago when my partner was in the hospital and had to undergo invasive surgery to save his life. I spent days worrying that one nurse or doctor might decide I didn't belong in his room anymore, days wondering what would happen if he died and I had no evidence of connection to him, wondering if I would lose him before the government even gave me a chance to marry him. It seem superfluous to say these uncertainties were barnacles attached to the bulk of my fear for him, uncertainties that only added to the supreme stress, but I shall mention it anyways. My point is: if there are members of the Manchester University community who believe that what I went through that week—and the experiences of countless others like me—constitute the way things ought to be, who will somehow be marginalized by an alternative, then their opinions on the subject are cruel and without merit, and it is a titanic shame to watch the University cater to them.