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sunshinemiss -> RE: Sunny Quote of the Day (5/15/2012 1:19:02 PM)
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Sunny
Quote of the Day
goes to
dcnovice
for his response to this question:
What is to be gained by allowing homosexual marriage?
In a word, dignity.*
Some of you have heard this story before, and I apologize for repeating myself. But it's the best answer I know to this question.
In 2006, my Aunt Brenda--witty, wise, wonderful, and amazingly kind to yours truly during some rough patches--died in upstate New York (which had not yet achieved marriage equality). Seconds after she flatlined, a doctor burst into the room, demanding to speak to the next of kin. Brenda's beloved partner, Melanie, who had seen Brenda through an agonizing decline at the hands of a brutal affliction called multiple system atrophy, introduced herself and explained that she held Brenda's power of attorney.
"That expired when she did," the doctor replied. "I need to talk to a member of the family."
I invite any of our eloquent posters on this issue to argue that that would have happened to a legal spouse.
And that's what "homosexual marriage" is all about, Charlie Brown. Being recognized, after years of loving and faithful union and in the most heartbreaking moment of one's life, as "a member of the family."
Edited for typo, alas.
* This one-word answer does not, of course, include the more than a thousand marriage-related rights and privileges conferred by U.S. law.
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