Putting aside the fact that the OP is gay and has skin in the game, the reality is that BOTH major parties wish to deprive us of freedom in different ways. Neither has any desire or intention to maximize freedom in any way, so they divide up reality and regulate their half of it.

The Republicans try to tell people what to do with their bodies, and the Democrats try to tell people what to do with their lives - as in business, or building, or where they can live or what weapons to own and carry.

They are both truly bullshit, and lately, both parties have been encroaching each others' turf and rallying for greater and greater regulation of everyone's lives. If this continues, you'll have to get a permit to breathe - renewable daily, and also require a hearing a permit to cease breathing. Failure to comply will be punished, I'm sure.

I'll give 5 stars for importance of this subject. The country needs to be freed from it's stranglers. ANY rule or regulation that "protects" someone from themselves, or their own choices, is immoral under the constitution, and possibly illegal. It's just wrong. People have a right to try things and if that leads to damage and death, they're responsible. We, a a country, state, or local, are NOT.

Let people be people, as long as they leave each other alone. Societal "guilt" over not interfering is not justification to interfere.