{"id":78119,"date":"2012-01-07T23:19:57","date_gmt":"2012-01-08T04:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/78119\/penis-gay-marriage-discrimination-straight-couples\/"},"modified":"2012-01-07T23:19:57","modified_gmt":"2012-01-08T04:19:57","slug":"penis-gay-marriage-discrimination-straight-couples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/78119\/penis-gay-marriage-discrimination-straight-couples\/","title":{"rendered":"Had She Had a Penis… How Gay Marriage Would End Discrimination Against Straight Couples"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was in one of these long-term, committed relationships that the Republicans tonight said should be \u201cgood enough\u201d\u2026 There\u2019s no reason that we should have been allowed to call that \u201cmarriage\u201d, even if we wanted to. We should have been happy to have been allowed to be together. She was Mexican. I was white. In the values of generations past, which the conservatives long to get back to, that might not have even been allowed. <\/font><\/p>\n

Then, she got laid off from her job and lost her health insurance. I wanted to put her on mine. Now, this was 7 or so years ago, and even back then, as an employee of a middle-of-the-road big corporation, I could have added my significant other to my health insurance if we had been a same-sex couple<\/em>. Had she had a penis<\/strong>,\"\" I could have paid another $100\/mo and had her on my Blue Cross. Kudos to Sears & Roebuck for having such an enlightened policy in light of the inability for same sex couples to marry, but as a heterosexual couple, that policy, was, at its very essence, discriminatory! <\/font><\/p>\n

So we got married. <\/font><\/p>\n

For health insurance reasons.<\/font><\/p>\n

It should be no surprise, the marriage didn\u2019t last.<\/font><\/p>\n

These Republican opponents of same-sex marriage stake their position upon a claim of the sanctity of the institution. What kind of sanctity is there when folks get married at a Las Vegas strip chapel just so that they can share health insurance? <\/font><\/p>\n

By same sex marriage not being legal across the country, companies which provide benefits have needed to make special exceptions to retain their capable and valued gay employees. These same benefits are not provided to their straight employees. This is a simple reality wherein the market has dictated terms that the government has not yet caught up to. These conservatives pay so much deference to market forces, then they should pay attention to what American corporations are already doing and allow same sec couples to have the same, or as my anecdote demonstrates, even more rights than their straight counterparts. <\/font><\/p>\n

End the discrimination against long-term, committed heterosexual couples! Allow gay marriage! <\/font><\/p>\n

To conclude, a new \u201crandom\u201d video, set to the Duke of Uke\u2019s Born Bad. <\/font><\/p>\n


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I was in one of these long-term, committed relationships that the Republicans tonight said should be \u201cgood enough\u201d\u2026 There\u2019s no reason that we should have been allowed to call that \u201cmarriage\u201d, even if we wanted to. We should have been happy to have been allowed to be together. She was Mexican. I was white. In […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,26,1428],"tags":[81,424],"class_list":["post-78119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-news","category-politics-2","tag-joko","tag-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}