A Heartbreaking Picture of Discrimination is Worth a Thousand Words
My IRL gay blog world pal Bil Browning sent over this photo of discrimination in action that I just had to share with you. I think Bil says it best:
Devoted couple Inger and Phillipa
Knudson-Judd were married in Iowa and are raising a young daughter
together. Phillipa is a good woman with dual bachelors degrees, no
criminal record, worked with the elderly and disabled, and is a
published author; she’s also English.
Yesterday, Phillipa was forced to abandon her family and return to
England. The United States government says that she’s not fit to stay in
the country with her loved ones because her family isn’t good enough.
Gone. Phillipa has left the building – and the country. This devoted
mother is now half a world away from her child and wife. And all for
what? Why is this still happening?
Stop breaking up our families. Stop ruining our lives. DOMA and the
dozens of associated laws – like this one preventing same-sex foreign
nationals from remaining in America like their straight counterparts
enjoy the right to – need to go. NOW.
(via Bilerico Project)
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