"It is not a small issue to us," said Ms. Schwartz. "I have a thyroid condition. And a main reason we moved to Michigan was so I would be able to stay at home with the children."
In November, Michigan voters, along with those in 12 other states, approved legislation to define marriage as an institution between a man and a woman. On March 16, Michigan's attorney general, Mike Cox, took that one step further, ruling that passage of the constitutional amendment meant that gay and lesbian state workers should be ineligible for health benefits for their partners in future contracts. ...
Dr. Moltz said she and Ms. Schwartz took their 4-year-old daughter, Aliana Schwartz, to the polls with them in November. "We try to be civic-minded people, and we think it's important for children to actually watch their parents vote," Dr. Moltz said.
When told of how the vote went, Ms. Schwartz said, the little girl asked if it meant the family would be split up.
"We were really in shock for a week after the vote," Ms. Schwartz said. "We would walk down the street and look at people and think, are you one of the ones who think we don't deserve to be a family?"
I really don't have much to say about this substantively. It's just an example of why Republicans are in my book irrational, immoral, primitive, drooling morons. Exhibit A, in fact. You all can go fuck yourselves.
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