Mr. McConkey we applaud your efforts. As gay residents of the State of Wisconsin, we believe my civil liberties were infringed upon by the voters of the State of Wisconsin when they cast this vote. The U.S. Supreme Court found in Loving v Virginia (388 U.S. 1 (1967))"The freedom to marry has long been recognized as one of the vital personal rights essential to the orderly pursuit of happiness by free men.
Marriage is one of the “basic civil rights of man,” fundamental to our very existence and survival. Skinner v. Oklahoma, (1942). See also Maynard v. Hill, (1888).316 U.S. 535, 541 125 U.S. 190 To deny this fundamental freedom on so unsupportable a basis as the racial classifications embodied in these statutes, classifications so directly subversive of the principle of equality at the heart of the Fourteenth Amendment, is surely to deprive all the State’s citizens of liberty without due process of law." Even though, this quote is in reference to race, the same argument is valid in regards to sexual orientation.