heinous people doing appalling things
Hey California, maybe you should worry less about cussing and more about homophobic elder abuse.
A quick summary: Clay and Harold had been living together for 20 years, and had filed various legal documents regarding power of attorney, medical directives, etc. -- all the legal workarounds that you need when you can't or don't want to get married. County officials and health care workers summarily ignored all of that and imprisoned them in separate nursing homes after Harold fell down the stairs and had to go to the hospital, and then terminated the lease on their home and sold off all their belongings. Harold died three months later without having been reunited with Clay.
I just don't know what to say. I don't understand how or why anyone could be so outrageously cruel. Is it that having power over other people just automatically awakens the urge to abuse it? Is homophobia that strong, that compelling to some people?
Clay has now been released, and bringing a lawsuit against the county, the auction company, and the nursing home. The article I linked to suggests e-mailing the local paper (letters@pressdemocrat.com) asking them to pick up the story (they haven't yet), and there's also a petition for the same... will it help? I don't know; I don't have much faith in online petitions. I hope... can't really say I hope it turns out okay, or it all works out; how do you make something like this "okay"? I hope he wins the lawsuit, I hope that helps to prevent more cases like this.
A quick summary: Clay and Harold had been living together for 20 years, and had filed various legal documents regarding power of attorney, medical directives, etc. -- all the legal workarounds that you need when you can't or don't want to get married. County officials and health care workers summarily ignored all of that and imprisoned them in separate nursing homes after Harold fell down the stairs and had to go to the hospital, and then terminated the lease on their home and sold off all their belongings. Harold died three months later without having been reunited with Clay.
I just don't know what to say. I don't understand how or why anyone could be so outrageously cruel. Is it that having power over other people just automatically awakens the urge to abuse it? Is homophobia that strong, that compelling to some people?
Clay has now been released, and bringing a lawsuit against the county, the auction company, and the nursing home. The article I linked to suggests e-mailing the local paper (letters@pressdemocrat.com) asking them to pick up the story (they haven't yet), and there's also a petition for the same... will it help? I don't know; I don't have much faith in online petitions. I hope... can't really say I hope it turns out okay, or it all works out; how do you make something like this "okay"? I hope he wins the lawsuit, I hope that helps to prevent more cases like this.