Talk about incoherent with rage...
Gay woman fights over hospital visitation rights in Miami court
As her partner of 17 years slipped into a coma, Janice Langbehn pleaded with doctors and anyone who would listen to let her into the woman's hospital room.
Eight anguishing hours passed before Langbehn would be allowed into Jackson Memorial Hospital's Ryder Trauma Center. By then, she could only say her final farewell as a priest performed the last rites on 39-year-old Lisa Marie Pond.
Jackson staffers advised Langbehn that she could not see Pond earlier because the hospital's visitation policy in cases of emergency was limited to immediate family and spouses -- not partners. In Florida, same-sex marriages or partnerships are not recognized. On Friday, two years after her partner's death, Langbehn and her attorneys were in federal court, claiming emotional distress and negligence in a suit they filed last June.
It's bad enough they wouldn't recognize the partnership. But the woman even had medical power of attorney for her partner...
Fuck you very much, ass-backward rhetoric-munching dogmatic bible-thumping hate-and-fear mongering policy makers and voters. And you too, assholish hospital staff. You're right up there too. No fucking excuses. This shit is inhumane.
I don't know what kind of cognitive dissonance it takes to defend these discriminatory laws for "the family." Though I suppose if you're defining "the family" in the oft touted, never experienced, 1950s hallucination, you're already an idiot, so it probably doesn't take much.
But to the rest of us thinking (and feeling) individuals, this shit shows you for what you are: petty fucking sadists.
Please go to hell and take the rest of the hate mongers with you.
The rest of us will get by just fine on our own.
As her partner of 17 years slipped into a coma, Janice Langbehn pleaded with doctors and anyone who would listen to let her into the woman's hospital room.
Eight anguishing hours passed before Langbehn would be allowed into Jackson Memorial Hospital's Ryder Trauma Center. By then, she could only say her final farewell as a priest performed the last rites on 39-year-old Lisa Marie Pond.
Jackson staffers advised Langbehn that she could not see Pond earlier because the hospital's visitation policy in cases of emergency was limited to immediate family and spouses -- not partners. In Florida, same-sex marriages or partnerships are not recognized. On Friday, two years after her partner's death, Langbehn and her attorneys were in federal court, claiming emotional distress and negligence in a suit they filed last June.
It's bad enough they wouldn't recognize the partnership. But the woman even had medical power of attorney for her partner...
Fuck you very much, ass-backward rhetoric-munching dogmatic bible-thumping hate-and-fear mongering policy makers and voters. And you too, assholish hospital staff. You're right up there too. No fucking excuses. This shit is inhumane.
I don't know what kind of cognitive dissonance it takes to defend these discriminatory laws for "the family." Though I suppose if you're defining "the family" in the oft touted, never experienced, 1950s hallucination, you're already an idiot, so it probably doesn't take much.
But to the rest of us thinking (and feeling) individuals, this shit shows you for what you are: petty fucking sadists.
Please go to hell and take the rest of the hate mongers with you.
The rest of us will get by just fine on our own.