Panel Day Reflection

     From my viewpoint, I thought that the Panel Day presentation was an alright event. To put things in perspective, people can have many different views regarding one general topic. For example: I am religious, but I do not abide by the same religious stand points as Mary Anne Hegemen (the Mormon Panelist). She does not believe in gay marriage. Her views consist of a moral aspect, which for her, includes God and the Bible. Gay marriage is not particularly excepted by God, which therefore means she is against homosexual marriage. My morality is not the same as hers; my morals go in the direction of the other two panelists we heard from: David Zuckeman (former representative) and Tom Little (former legislator). They led me to believe that they are both pro gay marriage.  The panelists that came to talk about Gay Marriage, whether it was through their beliefs or governmental standpoints, made me to think deeper about what the nation would become if laws, factoring discrimination amongst homosexuals, are abolished or added to the U.S constitution. They gave me the perspective that whether gay marriage is allowed or not, there will still be issues regarding it because people are either for it, or against it, and if gay marriage; if gay marriage is allowed then there will be further questions such as "if gay marriage is allowed, then why isn't (such and such)," however if gay marriage isn't allowed then that will be discriminating amongst homosexuals. All in all I feel like the Panel Day experience was a good experience and gave me a new stand point of the issue of gay marriage.