Freedom To...Starve?
Filed by: Rebecca Juro
February 9, 2009 2:30 PM
http://www.bilerico.com/2009/02/freedom_tostarve.php (http://www.bilerico.com/2009/02/freedom_tostarve.php)
I don't know about you, but I'm long past sick of the elitist tunnelvision of these so-called marriage equality advocates.
America is in the beginnings of a massive recession. Americans are losing their jobs by the millions. LGB and especially Transgender-Americans, often the last hired and first fired even in good times, are hurting and hurting badly economically. An inclusive version of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act is due to be introduced in Congress later this year. And what do we see from our so-called activist elite? This nonsense.
Let's be clear: LGBT Americans, like the rest of the country, need jobs, we need them right now, and a lot of us need those jobs right now a hell of a lot more than we need the ability to file joint tax returns.
I wish it were only as simple as joint tax returns. Even in a massive recession/depression is there no value in having health insurance benefits for your unemployed partner, or being allowed to keep your house when your partner dies?
Freedom to starve? How about starving yourself because you have to provide for your sick partner out-of-pocket and becoming homeless from not being able to pay the tax when they die? It happens more often than you might think.