This is in response to Mary Ann Zimmerman's column ("Acceptance of various sexual orientations and lifestyles will lead to a more just America," Oct. 21). The main point you made which I take contention with is the legalization of gay marriages. Before a law is passed, one should ask what would be the effect if every citizen of this country followed through on the opportunity offered by this law.

An answer to this question regarding homosexual unions is that the human population would cease to exist. This is the major setback of gay unions. It provides no benefit to the human society as a whole. If every person were to join in a gay union, the world would stop with that generation. That theory alone should lead you to believe that there is something fundamentally wrong with gay unions.