After spending the last 30 years with my domestic partner, I welcome the opportunity TO PAY FOR MY OWN insurance should these unfair laws be changed.   I am self employed and am seeing drastic and unfair price increases in my health care coverage even though I am a healthy, non-smoker, with no pre-existing conditions.  At this rate, by next year I will not be able to  afford my insurance.  I expect that should I be added to the state pool, I would be able to afford insurance due to the  discounts that result from the larger pool as well as enjoying the better quality of insurance that is afforded to these large groups. This is not a gay thing - this is a human rights thing. The short sighted and mean spirited Virginians who seek to deny me the opportunity to pay for my own insurance should simply be ashamed.