Senator George Maziarz has never been a friend of the marriage equality movement or the LGBT community. But even if you don't share the views of the community or movement, you could least give them a serious answer.
Case in point: The video below featuring a woman who is legally married to her partner. Anne Tischer and her partner Bess have been together for 15 years and have been married for five years.
Watch Anne tell her story to Maziarz and watch his response:
Anyone else feel the sympathy in the air as Maziarz said that? Neither did I. What a cold answer for two people who love each other and for a woman who obviously is trying to make sure her family is taken care of.
It's not enough that she pays the same taxes everyone else does or that she is barred from having the same benefits, in her words, because she isn't able to purchase a $40 civil marriage license (good point, by the way, on her part). All of that went in Maziarz's ear and out the other side.
Classless is a word that comes to mind. At least show some sort of interest in it. Don't just tell what your position is and move on.
