Too Many Laws, Specially if you are Gay.

To begin with, I really do not understand the cost of Health Insurance in the United States. I mean come on, $650 a month for a person?

However, the issue isn’t just the price of Health Insurance, but what happens when you are Gay, registered in a Civil Partnership / Union in one state, then go move to another that is, shall we say, HOMOPHOBIC?

ABC News has a story about a Gay Couple, registered in New Jersey who moved to Boise Idaho, where civil unions are not allowed. Naturally the Religious Right won there, but the issue is, this guy no longer has health coverage for his partner, who was given coverage while in New Jersey.

But he was dropped from the policy last October, shortly after the Konica Minolta company found the couple had moved to Idaho, where they couldn’t register as domestic partners. In 2006, 63 percent of Idaho voters approved a constitutional amendment defining marriage as the union of of a man and a woman, effectively outlawing same-sex unions. (source)

See, I just do not understand the GLBT Community in the United States. They claim that it is better to push for Individual States to allow ‘Civil Partnership‘ or ‘Civil Unions‘ so we can get onto these health plans. Now maybe there is something I am missing, but here is how it works here.

I am MARRIED, no stupid bullshit civil union crap or civil partnership or register either. MARRIED, pure and simple. If I move from British Columbia to the Yukon or to Prince Edward Island, I AM MARRIED, no province can say I can’t take advantage of couple rates, or anything else.

This is why it has to be Marriage, and why it has to be a NATIONAL LAW.