Conservative Marine for Equality 

Craig Stowell is a conservative former Marine who takes “freedom and liberty very seriously.” And in a full-page ad running Wednesday in New Hampshire’s conservative-leaning Union Leader, he says he finds the effort to “take away marriage from loving gay and lesbian couples not only to be wrong, but completely off task.”

The ad is an open letter from Stowell to the New Hampshire legislature, urging lawmakers to focus on fixing the economy and creating jobs and not on stripping same-sex couples of marriage rights.

He says in the letter he is writing on behalf of his brother, who was the best man at his wedding to the woman of his dreams.

“I hope he will one day ask me to be his best man when he decides to marry,” he writes.

Read the full letter at GoodAsYou.org.