My client Jack is in his eighties, and he’s in a pretty low spot right now, Drew – maybe you can do something to help.Last year, he lost Bob, his husband and partner of more than 50 years. In that terrible moment of grief, the funeral home refused to take Bob’s body after they learned Bob and Jack were married.
Now we’re suing the funeral home to bring some justice to Jack and to restore some of the dignity lost in that terrible ordeal. It’s been a year and things were supposed to start getting better from here – but Jack continues to struggle for basic dignity in his loneliness and grief.
Days after we announced the lawsuit, Jack stopped to put gas in his car and a woman at the pump asked if he was the man whose husband died. When he responded in the affirmative, instead of offering condolences like a caring human being might, she told Jack that he should have died, too.
It broke my heart when Jack told me that story. Please do Jack a favor: Write him a note of love and support so he knows that the LGBT community and our allies have his back.
It’s easy to get angry, thinking about how that bully couldn’t resist an opportunity to kick Jack while he was down, but remember: Our movement is grounded in love, not anger or hate.
I fight that kind of bigotry in court every day. Leave that to me. What I’m asking is for you to drown out the hate with love. Nothing can give back everything that Jack has lost, but we can show him that he’s not alone and that there’s a coast-to-coast community standing with him in this fight.
Let Jack know the entire LGBT community and our allies are behind him. Send him a note to let him know that you’re with him now – it will only take a few minutes and I promise it will mean a lot: www.lambdalegal.org/jack
