Equality for all still just a slogan

Published 12:13 pm Sunday, October 14, 2012

If you truly don’t support marriage equality and Referendum 74, I’d ask you to look at the person you love most in the world and then imagine what happens after you die. Do you really want the love of your life to be worried about whether your power of attorney will hold up over the house you own? Do you really think that the Social Security survivor benefits that you worked for all your life should go to someone else other than the spouse who shared your life?

Should someone else’s discomfort with the use of a word, or their ideas about what you might do in bed, truly justify letting the person you loved most in the world, financially twist in the wind when you die? These are just two issues that are not settled with the so called “everything but marriage” law. There are more than 1,000 rights and privileges that we take for granted when we’re married, that you would deny others because they don’t line up with your notion of what makes two people married.

Want to “take back America”? Be an American — let other people have the same rights you do. Vote yes on R74.

Christopher Bingham

Snohomish