People in glass [PolitiFact repudiations] shouldn't throw [gotcha links]

[WillParkinson]

People in glass [PolitiFact repudiations] shouldn't throw [gotcha links]
by Jeremy Hooper

It's interesting that the National Organization For Marriage, over on their NOM blog, would link to a Politifact article that had trouble concretely nailing down some of the more obscure or complicated denied rights associated with marriage inequality:

Because while it's true that this respected source did have only a "barely true" label (but still true, nonetheless) to grant towards the denial of those more enigmatic rights/benefits, it's also true that (a) That exact same Politifact article quite easily nailed down the big daddy rights that NOM quite literally wishes to deny gay couples:

Many examples are substantive and well-documented. Gaycouples lose out on Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and veterans benefits that would normally go to a spouse. They can't transfer property between themselves without possibly incurring a tax penalty, a concern married couples don't face.

They aren't protected by the COBRA law or the Family Medical Leave Act the way the spouse of an unemployed person is. Death benefits don't automatically go to the partner in a gay marriage the way they go to a widow or widower.

http://www.goodasyou.org/good_as_you/2011/05/people-in-glass-politifact-repudiations-shouldnt-throw-gotcha-links.html

[longship]

1. Equal opportunity under the law

It is undoubtedly the courts which will have to resolve this mess. By mess, I mean the ridiculous craziest exhibited by those who would actually encode these inequalities into the very Constitution which was written to protect these rights.

Somebody needs to say, loud and clear, these inescapable facts. Then, we should ridicule and satire the idiots who would oppose what many, more rational, people see as the inevitable.

I only trust that the courts will have the wisdom to do the right thing. To think otherwise is something I don't want to think about.

That's why we need to work our asses off this year. And LBGT rights aren't the only thing at stake. Every four years I look at the situation and exclaim that this is the most important election of my life. It may be confirmation bias, but this year very well may be that election. Listening to the opposition, I've never in my life heard such utter madness from an entire political party.

So we all have to work as hard as we can to see to it that this madness must not gain power. We can only do that by making the argument. We're going to have to move a mountain before November. So let's get shoveling.

Thanks for reading my diatribe.