A. Martin’s letter of May 2, 2013, “Repeat the truth” bears much closer scrutiny before it can support A. Martin’s proposition.

Lacking in the description of the “potato patch” anecdote are, at the very least, the answers to the following salient questions:

A. Who owns the land and pays the taxes on the land on which the potatoes are grown?

B. Who pays for the seed?

C. Who pays for the fertilizer?

D. Who pays for the herbicide and pesticide?

E. Who pays for the water for the crop, and its delivery system?

Ever heard the phrase, “There’s no such thing as a free lunch?” As much as we try to debunk that popular adage in our Pequot Lakes community, there is a thread of truth in it.

For dozens of years our business community, through the Pequot Lakes office of the Chamber, has donated the funds and provided the volunteers and staff to deliver two of the best community celebrations in all of Minnesota — our Stars & Stripes Days July 3-4 and our Bean Hole Days, this year July 12-13.

I’m really confused about how the legislative system works. We voted and the “people” voted against gay marriage. Then the issue resurfaces in the House and Senate.

It reminds me of the abortion issue. When the country voted on possible legalization of abortion in 1972, the populace said “no.” But, with finagling of the law, it was brought before the Supreme Court as a personal freedom issue the next year and passed there.

So, why did we vote?

Vote yes to gay marriage

The state Legislature will soon vote on a bill that would expand the freedom to marry to gay and lesbian couples. I hope our representative, Joe Radinovich, will vote yes.

We cannot legislate love. All Minnesotans deserve to be treated fairly under the law. When people are in love, whether it be with a member of the opposite or same sex, and want to commit to each other and form a family, they deserve to be treated equally under the law.