In my wallet I have a gold card with my name on it. The card guarantees that if I am ever stranded by the side of the road with a flat tire, or a broken down car, that help is just a phone call away. It also gives me discounts on lodging and other perks.
My partner has a gold card with her name on it as well. The account number on both cards is the same. Years ago, when we signed up for the cards with the venerable roadside assistance company AAA, the woman at the counter smiled sweetly and never blinked an eye when we asked for the “family” plan. We were granted a generous discount under the family plan over buying two individual plans.
The American Family Association is just hearing about this kind of outrage – a corporation selling memberships at a discount to people they consider “faux families.”
The homosexual couples need only state that they are married to receive the family benefit. In the eyes of AAA two homosexuals living together constitute “marriage” and make a “family.” All they have to do to get the “family membership” benefits is to say “we are gay and married.”
AFA only noticed this outrage after Equality Florida struck a deal with AAA South to include gay and lesbian families in the definition of “family.” It’s nice to know that now AAA South considers all families as families, despite AFA’s narrow definition, but AAA has been selling discount family policies to gays and lesbians for years under the radar. When it comes to treating gays and lesbians fairly, AAA has been doing its part for years. AFA is simply using a long standing policy of AAA to again, raise money for its coffers off the backs of gays and lesbians.
Long ago Jesus told a parable about a man left stranded by the side of the road. Two very pious and socially respected men passed him by without a thought, not wanting to go out of their way to help. A good Samaritan however, stopped to help the man, fixed him up, and even got him a great discount at a hotel. In our modern day parable, AAA is the gay and lesbian community’s good Samaritan, while Don Wildmon and his ilk refuse to even glance in their rear view mirror as they speed away in the other direction.
