It's not just an abstract concept

If you were one of the people who voted last year for Alabama's constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, take a moment out of your day to visit Birmingham Blues and read this post.

Ask yourself why our state's laws should treat a man in such a dehumanizing way when he's trying to plan the funeral of the person with whom he lived as a spouse and whom he loved more than anyone else in the world. Then ask what you could have done to prevent that travesty, and what you could do in the future to keep it from happening again.