I recently read an article by Meg Whitman, CEO of Hewlett-Packard, in which she outlines her reasons for joining “a prominent group of conservatives, moderate Republicans and social libertarians” in signing onto an amicus brief in Hollingsworth v. Perry, a Supreme Court case challenging California’s Proposition 8. In citing her reasons for opposing Prop. 8, Ms. Whitman states in her article that, “I feel the time has come to bestow marriage equality to same-sex couples,” arguing that there is “no legitimate, fact-based reason for providing different legal treatment of committed relationships between same-sex couples.” I respectfully disagree.