Same-sex couples exist, and they’re raising loving families.
In that respect it doesn’t matter what state law, which bans gay marriage and gay adoption, or the Florida Constitution says.
Except it does matter. For these families, life would be easier, less stressful and more just if the state gave them the same rights as heterosexuals.
For now, they’ll consider it victory enough if an amendment that codifies inequality doesn’t get the 60 percent needed for approval.
Read the entire column by Michael Mayo in the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel.