I take Sandy Williams’s point (a Letter to the Editor on April 8) that we “discriminate” by not allowing children to marry, etc.

However, I strongly believe that not allowing same-sex couples to marry is plain wrong. Sandy concludes the letter by saying that “most Christians simply believe that marriage is for a male and a female…” Recent surveys call that claim to question: 63 percent of Americans now believe in the constitutional right for gay couples to marry; 64 percent of self-identifying Evangelical Christians millenials support same-sex marriage; 62 percent of Catholics are in favor of legalizing same-sex marriage; 70 percent people under 50 support same-sex marriage indeed, a majority of Americans in every section of the country now support same-sex marriage.

To those Christians — and non- Christians — who believe that males shouldn’t marry males and females shouldn’t marry females, I simply say, “Don’t marry a male if you’re a male and don’t marry a female if you’re a female. But don’t deny same-sex couples the right to marriage.”

Happily this whole issue will seem quaint in a few years as ever greater majorities of Americans come to the rightful conclusion that same-sex couples should have the right to marry.

David Treadwell
Brunswick