I do not often find myself at a loss for words……………but this video, and the wise words of a friend, have left me virtually speechless.
I cannot imagine being in these shoes, and the horrific devastation that would follow if this happened to me.
I also cannot imagine being the soulless, heartless type of person who thinks that this is not only OK, but a legal, moral necessity.
PLEASE watch this devastating video, and share it with everyone you know., along with the words of wisdom that a dear friend is allowing me to share here, after the clip.
With the nonsense going on in North Carolina, this is a good time to think about those we love, what the relationships mean to us, and how we can protect them. Marriage equality is a great idea, and we need to work very, very hard to get it. But meanwhile, if you’ve talked about wanting to be with someone but haven’t made things official with your partner in a legal sense (incorporating, as it were), everything that happened to this guy could happen to you. And more.
You could lose your partner. You could be denied information about how your partner died. You could be turned away at the hospital. You could be turned away at the funeral. You could lose everything in your partner’s bank account. And yours. You could lose your children. You could lose your house. You could lose your dignity. You might not be able to say goodbye to the person you love the most in this world.
If you love someone enough to want to be with them forever, be proactive. Make a will. Get financial and health care powers of attorney. Get life insurance. Make sure that no one…not your partner’s mother or father or sister or brother or even friends…no one…gets to decide how it ends for you.
Then fight for marriage equality and fight really hard, but fight knowing that if you don’t get it, you’ll at least have each other, and you’ll know that no one can take that away from you. Love is great, but idiots abound, and they’re showing us that they can … and will … fight to take your love away from you.
Protect yourselves.
~taken from the Book of Faces status of my wonderful friend ” X”.
love you dearly, and will stand with you always in the fight for equality.
You’re a good woman.
I am just so heartbroken for all the truly wonderful people who are being shunted aside like second class citizens because of their sexuality.
Another friend posted this status on the Book of Faces, and it made me weep:
“I just don’t get why anyone cares if I want a legal partnership with whoever I want, regardless of sex, color religion… I have been with Michael for 19 years in a committed relationship. Because our partnership is not recognized by the law, a hospital can deny me the right to be by his side if he is ill; were one of us to die, the other would have no legal right to make arrangements for the other; and the worse thing because it happens all the time; when one person dies, their family can come in and take all their possessions away from the other person – they surviving person has no legal way to stop it. We just want to pursue our own American Dreams like everyone else and to be able to love who we want and have a few basic rights that everyone else is allowed.”
Seriously if your marriage is threatened with collapse by the marriage of homosexuals and lesbians, you must have a hell of a shitty-assed marriage.
WTF?
