MIAMI -- An advertisement has made two South Florida residents the unlikely poster couple for those who oppose Amendment 2 to the Florida Constitution.

Some of the claims made in the ad are tough to confirm because the way Amendment 2 is written leaves plenty of potential issues open to interpretation, Local 10's Glenna Milberg reported.

Helene Milman and Wayne Rauen are not actors. They really are Sunrise residents, together as a couple some 24 years. They are among those concerned about how Amendment 2, the so-called Marriage Protection Amendment, would affect them.

"Wayne and Helene have a domestic partner agreement," the ad says.

That's true. In 1999, the couple signed up with Broward County's Domestic Partner Registry, which gives them legal rights and responsibilities as primary family members, involving finances, legal decisions and health care.

"Domestic Partner gives you a right to visit your partner in the hospital. Amendment 2 could actually make that illegal," the ad says.

The murky, confusing future of the law under Amendment 2 is what concerns couples who are not formally married. The amendment would define legal marriage as only the union of one man and one woman and legally invalidate any other type of couple's relationship.

"Had I not had Domestic Partner, Helene would have had to wait on the gurney for 4½ hours before the surgery happened, alone," Rauen said in the ad.

That is true. Although Rauen and Milman have been together for more than two decades, they chose for financial reasons not to marry.

"I don't want the state of Florida and Amendment 2 to take away the rights of Wayne and I to be together," Milman said in the ad.

This is not a party debate. Rauen is a Republican and Milman is a Democrat. It is unclear how Amendment 2 will affect city and county domestic partner registries that are now in place.