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You know why this issue pisses me the fuck off so much? A lot of people in this thread are a PERFECT illustration:
You get these straight people, who have no idea what "marriage" really provides, and take for granted all of the rights and protections that they have, and simply dismiss without thought or education on the topic, the idea of gays getting married.
Being able to visit your loved one in the hospital, being able to bury them and attend their funeral should they die, being able to keep the house you shared together for 40 years when one passes without having to pay taxes that are so large you're forced to sell the house, being able to have shared health benefits, the list goes on and on and on and on and on.
You breeders can get drunk one night in Vegas, sign a slip of paper, and in 20 minutes have ALL of those protections, plus over 1,200 more federal protections.
My partner and I have had to spend years and thousands upon thousands of dollars to just BEGIN to provide some of those protections for each other.
And even with that being done, in most states, families can dispute any paperwork that gays have drafted, and in a lot of cases they win at the expense of the surviving partner.
The laws are fucked, they're discriminatory, and they're bigoted. Fuck your ideological beliefs, you're Jesus bullshit, and the President's political games he's playing with the constitution. These are REAL people's lives we're talking about.
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