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Santiago, Miami / “My partner died 18 years ago – exactly after we celebrated our 15th anniversary. With him went all my savings, the business we had together, and the house we bought. We lived in Las Vegas and had a prosperous life, but legally I had no right to the things that were under his name, so I came to Florida with nothing to call my own. I do not want this to happen with my current partner, or that it happen to him. A law that enables us to have the right to inherit, to each other’s retirement savings and that recognizes us as a legal union is our right. Our sexual orientation should not make us different.” ____________________________ Sandra and Jessica, West Palm Beach / “We have a beautiful daughter who has the right to call us both mom and needs the protection of both. The law can not be different for some and for others. Florida seems to live in the time of the Civil War, we are a state with backward and old ideas, even though we have a fairly large gay community. We will have another child, and hope it is born in a state where its parents can be married regardless of their sex. ” ____________________________ Roberto, Miami / “I do not believe in marriage, in other words, I will never marry, but I understand those who want to. Maybe in the future I might want to, but I don’t believe that to have children you need to have a heterosexual partner. I think this law needs to be passed, this is the country of freedom, let us be free to think what we think. “

Santiago, Miami / “My partner died 18 years ago – exactly after we celebrated our 15th anniversary. With him went all my savings, the business we had together, and the house we bought. We lived in Las Vegas and had a prosperous life, but legally I had no right to the things that were under his name, so I came to Florida with nothing to call my own. I do not want this to happen with my current partner, or that it happen to him. A law that enables us to have the right to inherit, to each other’s retirement savings and that recognizes us as a legal union is our right. Our sexual orientation should not make us different.” ____________________________ Sandra and Jessica, West Palm Beach / “We have a beautiful daughter who has the right to call us both mom and needs the protection of both. The law can not be different for some and for others. Florida seems to live in the time of the Civil War, we are a state with backward and old ideas, even though we have a fairly large gay community. We will have another child, and hope it is born in a state where its parents can be married regardless of their sex. ” ____________________________ Roberto, Miami / “I do not believe in marriage, in other words, I will never marry, but I understand those who want to. Maybe in the future I might want to, but I don’t believe that to have children you need to have a heterosexual partner. I think this law needs to be passed, this is the country of freedom, let us be free to think what we think. “

Santiago, Miami / “My partner died 18 years ago – exactly after we celebrated our 15th anniversary. With him went all my savings, the business we had together, and the house we bought. We lived in Las Vegas and had a prosperous life, but legally I had no right to the things that were under his name, so I came to Florida with nothing to call my own. I do not want this to happen with my current partner, or that it happen to him. A law that enables us to have the right to inherit, to each other’s retirement savings and that recognizes us as a legal union is our right. Our sexual orientation should not make us different.”

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Sandra and Jessica, West Palm Beach / “We have a beautiful daughter who has the right to call us both mom and needs the protection of both. The law can not be different for some and for others. Florida seems to live in the time of the Civil War, we are a state with backward and old ideas, even though we have a fairly large gay community. We will have another child, and hope it is born in a state where its parents can be married regardless of their sex. ”

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Roberto, Miami / “I do not believe in marriage, in other words, I will never marry, but I understand those who want to. Maybe in the future I might want to, but I don’t believe that to have children you need to have a heterosexual partner. I think this law needs to be passed, this is the country of freedom, let us be free to think what we think. “