mr. cathcart, congratulations to you. i read many things -- an e-mail that you have said or read. i have three really fast questions for you. i lived with a partner for 23 years and we owned a home together, we paid a mortgage, we owned a business together, and we paid all these taxes and social security. he passed away in 1999 after 23 years together. i am wondering is there any movement about me collecting his survivors social security benefits? because i think that is where this country is sustaining itself by all the money it doesn't have to pay gay people. host: billy, hold on the line. we will get a response of an follow-up with you. guest: so, you raise a really important issue, which is what happens now that the law has changed -- what happens to people who do not have the ability to take advantage of this new law. and i can't give you an exact answer because this is a question that is being litigated right now. lambda legal has a case against the social keep -- security administration and i think we are going to see issues like this, not just with social security, but wit

mr. cathcart, congratulations to you. i read many things -- an e-mail that you have said or read. i have three really fast questions for you. i lived with a partner for 23 years and we owned a home together, we paid a mortgage, we owned a business together, and we paid all these taxes and social security. he passed away in 1999 after 23 years together. i am wondering is there any movement about me collecting his survivors social security benefits? because i think that is where this country is sustaining itself by all the money it doesn't have to pay gay people. host: billy, hold on the line. we will get a response of an follow-up with you. guest: so, you raise a really important issue, which is what happens now that the law has changed -- what happens to people who do not have the ability to take advantage of this new law. and i can't give you an exact answer because this is a question that is being litigated right now. lambda legal has a case against the social keep -- security administration and i think we are going to see issues like this, not just with social security, but wit