Supreme Court: Marriage Equality Can’t Wait
This video shares the heartbreaking story of David, who lost Mike—his partner of more than 40 years—to cancer earlier this year. The couple married in the hospital room shortly before Mike’s death, a union not legally recognized in their home state of Ohio.
David explains that if he could speak to the Supreme Court, he would: “…ask one favor of them, and that’s to allow me to be on [Mike’s] death certificate as his spouse or husband. I would bend a knee to them and, seriously, say make an exception: Let it be that we are together on that death certificate.”
While many argue that state-by-state rulings on marriage are sufficient, David’s story is a painful reminder that nationwide marriage equality can’t wait.
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