Dear Senator Turner,
I'm a student at Princeton University asking for your vote to support marriage equality because marriage equality is an important part of my Asian immigration story.
My parents came from Taiwan in the 1970s to look for a better future in the United States. Growing up, my mother was afraid to talk about politics in Taiwan because she was afraid that the government would "disappear" her. But in America, she could be hopeful that I could be whoever I honestly was.
I was born in Red Bank in 1982, and my parents raised me as an Evangelical Christian. I told them I was gay in 2006, and now they support marriage equality.
I don't think my parents ever thought that I their son, born in New Jersey, would be pleading for my rights. But about thirty years after they got their citizenship, I'm in their shoes, making a case for my full rights. I know I'm doing the right thing because my parents showed me that sharing our honest selves is how we get our civil rights in America.
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