Imagine this nightmare, then pray it never happens to you. About to depart on your vacation, your spouse of two decades collapses in front of your three children. In the hospital, as your life partner slips into unconsciousness and finally dies, you wait helplessly for hours with no information from the doctors, forbidden to see your loved one or ease your soul mate's passing.
This happened to Lisa Pond's family, just because her spouse was a woman. Many
swappers who read about my Florida Home Exchange Boycott wrote to support the effort. One reader -- who, just by co-incidence happens to live in Florida -- was incensed. As it turns out, she's right.
A clever reader clued me in to http://www.equalitygiving.org. Their "Scorecard" gives Florida a pitiful 1.5 rating for fairness. Do you really want to spend your vacation money in a state that has been so cruel to so many families? I don't.
Yet Florida is not the most politically dangerous US state in which an unmarried -- or a married same-sex -- couple can vacation. That "honor" is shared equally by Idaho, Mississippi and Ohio. Some people like to ski in Idaho, but if you want to spend your home exchange vacation in Ohio or Mississippi you have a higher tolerance for tedium than I do. Florida, with its year-round hot climate and beaches, is a much bigger tourism draw. On the other hand, California, where I lived for over a decade, is very similar except that it has one of the highest fairness ratings and has more natural beauty and cultural interest in ten square miles of its coastline than Florida has in its gator-infested entirety.
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