Want to know why marriage equality is important?
Because anything short of it is just that: short of equality. Take Boeing (as Henny Youngman might have added, "Please"), which still builds most of its planes, and employs most of its workers, in Washington, where marriage equality is the law, is still trying to wriggle out:
"Their answer was that they had no intention of granting pension
survivor benefits to legally married same-sex couples because they
didn't have to," Goforth explains. Boeing representatives told him that pensions are governed by federal law, which doesn't recognize same-sex marriage, thereby trumping the state law on the matter.
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