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Gay rights

3/26/2013

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I’m now a believer in Florida Gulf Coast University (for those of you  uninitiated, they are the Cinderella of the NCAA  men’s basketball tournament).
In an unrelated topic,  I’m  also a believer (and have been) in gay marriage, the topic of the week in DC as  the Supreme Court takes on two cases on the topic.
I  congratulate U.S. Sen. Rob Portman on his change of mind on the topic. Folks say he changed  because his son is gay.  I think he changed not because his son is gay but because with his son being gay, he focused more on the righteousness of changing his position – he could relate to it. It literally  brought it home. He could see the harm it does to same-sex couples, who want the law to  acknowledge they have the same rights as the rest of us; the same right to being happy and in a committed relationship. More importantly, he could see the joy it could bring.
I know a couple – a man and a woman – who got married for similar
reasons: without the marriage certificate one spouse had no say in the other
spouse’s health care, had no claim on savings they both had earned, had no
right to the other’s pension, or health benefits, or to live in the house they
shared if the other should pass away, or many other things.
Did love have something to do with it? Of course. But you can love and not be married. You have to be married to have rights, though.

 

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    B. Jay is a former deputy White House press secretary to Presidents Reagan and George H.W. Bush. He also headed the communications offices at the Republican National Committee, U.S. Department of Commerce, and Yale University. He is a former reporter and is the retired deputy managing director of APCO Worldwide's Washington, D.C., office.
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