Reply #54: I have friends who are going to lose their house. [View All]

They have been together 23 years. One is chronically ill from an autoimmune disorder. He has no health insurance. The other is physically fit and has been with the same firm for 18 years. Yet he cannot claim his partner on his medical insurance. They have postponed trips, done without things in order to afford medical treatment, and may lose their house soon. The ill partner "owns a house" and is not eligible for public medical assistance. Yet, at the working partner's job, a new administrative assistant who is 23 and was hired last December just met a guy (like two months ago) and they are marrying soon. And both will be insured. I'll be sure to tell the gay couple that gay marriage is nothing like the moral imperative that black civil rights was and is.