god, sometimes you just don't come through
Well, friends, it's been an interesting week over the internet.
On the positive side: In real life, Obama made the decision that hospitals that accept Medicare and Medicaid must let patients choose which persons, including gay and lesbian partners, can visit them and help make critical health decisions. This is a significant step forward for gay rights, and was a very uplifting article to read.
Also, the KKK denounced the Westboro Baptist Church as being too extreme. That was just hilarious. I mean...when the KKK goes out there and says: "Hey guys, that's fucked up," you know you're Satan incarnate. That makes Bill O'Reily and the KKK so far against WBC. Who's next?
On the severely negative, this made me actually cry, why are people such douchebags side: Sonoma County, CA, separates an elderly gay couple and sells all of their worldly possessions.
This is...horrifying. As you can probably deduce from the title of the article.
Clay and Harold were a gay couple living together. Harold fell down the stairs and was injured, and the hospital denied Clay the right to visit him, and placed the men in separate nursing homes. Clay was in perfect health. They forced him into a home against his will. To make the matter even more horrific, they then seized all of their possessions and auctioned them off. Harold died in the nursing home, and Clay was unable to be with him in his final months. Clay, with the help of an attorney, has finally been released from the nursing home and is suing the county, the auction company, and the nursing home.
This just leaves me feeling cold. I wish there was some way I could show support for this man, or at least give him a message that I'm sorry about what happened to him and his husband, but...nothing. I'm going to show this article to my mother and tell her that these men, these victimized men, are the people she is hurting when she says things like 'gay people should leave the country if they don't like the rules' or 'Miss CA was justified to say what she said', or 'straight marriage is more natural.' These men, who were forced apart, treated like garbage, whose possessions were sold and whose home was virtually destroyed. I'll tell her that if this is the country she's protecting by making those statements, I don't want to live here, either. This shouldn't happen to anyone.
On the positive side: In real life, Obama made the decision that hospitals that accept Medicare and Medicaid must let patients choose which persons, including gay and lesbian partners, can visit them and help make critical health decisions. This is a significant step forward for gay rights, and was a very uplifting article to read.
Also, the KKK denounced the Westboro Baptist Church as being too extreme. That was just hilarious. I mean...when the KKK goes out there and says: "Hey guys, that's fucked up," you know you're Satan incarnate. That makes Bill O'Reily and the KKK so far against WBC. Who's next?
On the severely negative, this made me actually cry, why are people such douchebags side: Sonoma County, CA, separates an elderly gay couple and sells all of their worldly possessions.
This is...horrifying. As you can probably deduce from the title of the article.
Clay and Harold were a gay couple living together. Harold fell down the stairs and was injured, and the hospital denied Clay the right to visit him, and placed the men in separate nursing homes. Clay was in perfect health. They forced him into a home against his will. To make the matter even more horrific, they then seized all of their possessions and auctioned them off. Harold died in the nursing home, and Clay was unable to be with him in his final months. Clay, with the help of an attorney, has finally been released from the nursing home and is suing the county, the auction company, and the nursing home.
This just leaves me feeling cold. I wish there was some way I could show support for this man, or at least give him a message that I'm sorry about what happened to him and his husband, but...nothing. I'm going to show this article to my mother and tell her that these men, these victimized men, are the people she is hurting when she says things like 'gay people should leave the country if they don't like the rules' or 'Miss CA was justified to say what she said', or 'straight marriage is more natural.' These men, who were forced apart, treated like garbage, whose possessions were sold and whose home was virtually destroyed. I'll tell her that if this is the country she's protecting by making those statements, I don't want to live here, either. This shouldn't happen to anyone.