Protect Marriage
There is an amendment to the constitution on our ballot that purports to protect marriage by defining it as one man and one woman. Well, if that won’t tick off the Colorado City residents.
What it also does is strip away any rights non married heterosexual couples might have. Like health care for domestic partners, like removing any rights that a surviving partner may have to estates or pensions. Here in Arizona there are a large number of elderly couples who choose to live together but not actually get married. They do it for estate planning and other reasons. Many times these couples are widows and widowers who find each other after the passing of their spouses. If one happens to work in a job that offers domestic partner benefits such as covering the partner under health insurance this amendment would remove the health insurance options, not to mention that if one of them gets sick and goes into the hospital the non-spouse would not be able to visit if the family so chooses.
These rights have been fought for. To completely ignore a couple’s commitment to each other to promote a religious agenda is wrong. It is in effect telling that couple that they don’t matter relegating them to second or third class citizens with fewer rights than someone afflicted with a disease(ADA).
One man one woman. Someone at a party recently said that they thought that the one man and one woman were already married and the rest of us should be left alone.
