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Sonoma County CA separates elderly gay couple and sells all of their worldly possessions

Filed by: Kate Kendell
April 17, 2010 4:00 PM

Clay and his partner of 20 years, Harold, lived in California. Clay and Harold made diligent efforts to protect their legal rights, and had their legal paperwork in place--wills, powers of attorney, and medical directives, all naming each other. Harold was 88 years old and in frail medical condition, but still living at home with Clay, 77, who was in good health.

One evening, Harold fell down the front steps of their home and was taken to the hospital. Based on their medical directives alone, Clay should have been consulted in Harold's care from the first moment. Tragically, county and health care workers instead refused to allow Clay to see Harold in the hospital. The county then ultimately went one step further by isolating the couple from each other, placing the men in separate nursing homes.

OH HELL NO.

Current Mood: furious

The embedding tool for this CNN news video doesn't work (oh yay, Turner Broadcasting, WHATEVER), but the upshot is that the minister of a Baptist church in Arizona says right on camera that he prays for Obama to get brain cancer and die.

Quality human, oh yeah.

Even better? The dude who showed up at the Obama town hall later that weekend in Phoenix, toting an assault rifle? Was in Crazy Minister's church during that service.

In Bush's day, you couldn't even wear a freakin' t-shirt that said BUSH SUCKS or IRAQ: GTFO or DEAR GOD, IF YOU WERE TO TAKE GEORGE W. BUSH, LIKE, TOMORROW I WOULD NOT EVEN CRY, SRSLY, or large goons would come and make your ass vanish in the dead of night and next thing anyone knows, you're calling collect from, like, Belgrade or some shit. But Obama's the evil one?

OH RIGHT HE'S BLACK, NEVER MIND.

Morons.

ETA: Forgot to say, ganked from

wendymr.

Current Mood: revolted

I just got an e-mail from Equality California with a completely appalling photo: a man holding a hand-lettered sign that reads "Dan White: Hero. Killing a Queer."

Bitch, STFU. That is so disgusting. I don't care what your religion says; if you stand up and cheer for a murderer, you're a pile of shit trying vainly to masquerade as a human being.

Current Mood: angry

Comment seen on a hilarious post from Dispatches from the Culture Wars called "How to Avoid Advancing the Gay Agenda":

It's not just weapons. The religious extremists can't use satellites including GPS and communications satellites either. Note to zealots: can you please stop using "pro-gay" satellites to broadcast the 700 club and your other propaganda? You're being hypocritical.
Posted by: Salad Is Slaughter | September 18, 2007 10:29 AM

And then it gets EVEN BETTER:

They also can't send e-mail. The bulk of which is managed by "sendmail" which is written by Eric Allman who has been happily partnered for over 20 years.
"There is some sort of perverse pleasure in knowing that it's basically impossible to send a piece of hate mail through the Internet without its being touched by a gay program. That's kind of funny." --Eric Allman
Posted by: yoshi | September 18, 2007 10:41 AM

Current Mood: amused

Dagnabbit! I step away from the Internet for one lousy day and you kids get up to all kinds of mischief!

Homophobic Oregon CEO stirs hisself up a whole lotta trouble, yessiree Bob.

Why am I talking like a Texas hick? I have no fucking idea.

Current Mood: cynical

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Dear Sonoma County: NO.

You stay classy, Christian Right.

Homophobia bad.

OMG sendmail is SO GAY.

Does this guy sell those jockeys-in-blackface hitching post lawn things, too?

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