To the Editor:

Ms. [Rosemary] Centi is to be commended for resigning her position rather than engage in the same-sex "marriage" controversy.

While doing nothing to accommodate legitimate same-sex households for taxation, privacy, inheritance, and other issues, the recent court ruling, besides reversing the accepted standard "Marriage is between a man and a woman,” has trashed the time-proven "family" concept for perpetuation of the human race!

This concept goes back to the birth of Christ; in fact, it pre-dates Christ's birth by uncounted eons. What audacity! ISIS [Islamic State in Iraq and Syria] destroys artifacts that date to biblical times and kills the museum curator in the name of their new world. See the comparison?

As evidenced by votes in California and elsewhere, most couples who have successfully carried out their marriage vows for thirty, forty, fifty, or more years find the term "marriage,” as applied to same-sex relationships, simply offensive.

What does it say for our alleged concern for children — and the proven advantages of their being raised in a mother-father family? It says "zero consideration.”

This of course is all Opinion. Dave Cornelius (who wrote a letter to the Enterprise editor, published on Sept.10) may be right or wrong; I may be right or wrong.

Ms. Centi, however, is the one party to the discussion who is absolutely right; she showed the power of her convictions by resigning. I, for one, would be proud to have her represent me.

Chris MacDermot

Guilderland

Editor’s note: Rosemary Centi was Guilderland’s town clerk in 2011 when New York legalized same-sex marriage. Centi had also served for a decade as a marriage officer, an unpaid post, from which she resigned after the law passed, citing her Catholic beliefs. She retired as clerk at the end of her term in 2013. She is now running for a seat on the Guilderland Town Board.