Much Ado about Sappho

This Election Day, the American voter faces a broad variety of issues, not the least of which includes the choice of candidate who will sit in the Oval Office for the next four years. There are also a number of important propositions that challenge the voter’s notion of right and wrong and how those moral convictions should play out in the voting booth. One such issue is same-sex marriage. Now, the celebration of divergent sexual activity and lifestyles is not, by any means, a novel phenomenon. In Ancient Greece, one of the nine lyric poets known as Sappho produced a great deal of erotic writing in which her narrator expresses feelings of infatuation for other female characters. Sappho was born on the island of Lesbos, which is the origin of the word lesbian. Such issues are still controversial today, and unfortunately, people can be so polarized in their views that maintaining respectful disagreement while casting a conscientious vote is no easy task.

The more I deliberate the issue of same-sex marriage in my mind, the more I realize that any discussion must eventually address the