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Topic ID: 1450
Message ID: 25
#25, RE: Strange Memories on this Nervous Night
Posted by JFerio on Nov-12-16 at 11:28 AM
In response to message #15
>Fortunately for you there's already precedent stating that same-sex
>marriages performed while legal are still recognized as valid even
>after the law legalizing them was overturned. I'm sure there would be
>a lot of other mess involved, but your marriage should remain intact.
>
>Hopefully you won't have to put that to the test (or anyone else, for
>that matter).

We'll still be doing some planning for the worst even as we hope for the best, just in case. Probably involving a consult with a lawyer and making up paperwork to substitute for/reinforce our "rights of marriage" such as living wills, wills, powers of attorney in case either of us incapacitated, etc. And we'll probably need to do so before the economic collapse comes upon us.

Much of my primary worry right now is for the few of my friends who are on mental-illness related disability, and all that entails. The Republicans have made no big secret that they'd like to throw people who can't work, regardless of the reason, into the Woodchipper of Capitalism after they've removed the safety net over the feed chute. By doing the either/or/and of removing their ability to qualify for disability (on account of having an invisible but very real illness), and stripping their ability to get any healthcare at all. My worry is to the point that I am expecting one or both to potentially commit suicide rather than face the abject misery being homeless and at the mercy of their mind demons for the rest of their lives

>Offsides (who's sorely disappointed that his state turned red this
>year)

Here I'm sorely disappointed in the rest of the country. On the other hand, it's made our list of selections for vacation destinations considerably smaller. Even if it was 25% actively voting for the bigotry, it was still 25%, and the bigots are not going to ignore that. Some of those states were already in the "no visit" list, but I now have a nice, handy single reference graphic for it, rather than having to look up various news articles about Religious Freedom Acts and Bathroom Bills.