Same-sex couples deserve equal rights

IMAGINE this. It’s late some foggy Tuesday evening, you’re driving home, you’ve been working late and — despite heavy caffeine intake — you know that you’re nowhere near as alert or together as you’d like to be.

Your mind drifts, and wanders to that thought, the one that runs through every parent or spouse’s mind on those dark drives home: What if I were to die? What if I drifted off the road? What would my wife do? My children? How would they cope?

Now let’s imagine a little more. Imagine that fear if the “what if scenarios” extend further. What if, when I die, it leaves my partner in financial ruin? My family kicked out of a home they can no longer afford mortgage payments on? My kids taken from their surviving parent?