Kept Apart while Dying

Today I'm feeling under the weather and just surfing the web. I ran across this article from last week where another blogger was talking about how a lesbian couple was not allowed to be together while one of them was dying in a hospital in Miami.

I don't think I could do a better job than she did in expressing my feelings about this senseless, hateful situation. Keeping two people who love each other and have shared a life together apart when one is in her last moments of life is more than wrong... it is heartless, cruel, shameful and I hope God adds that to the list of sins of those who kept these two people apart. This is so sad.
My heart aches for this family and I am devastated that our seemingly progressive societies in larger urban areas are still inflicting pain on gay and lesbians.

When will this stop? We all have to vote! Call or write your congressman/woman! Speak out against those who try to count us GLBTQ as second class citizens.

This makes me want to get married even more. I want to declare my love for my partner and show the world that gay and lesbian couples are every much as stable, loving, normal and worthy of protections under the law.

If someone you know, care about or love is gay, lesbian, bisexual or questioning then you can imagine what this might have been like for this person if he or she had to go through such an ordeal. Please stand up with us in fighting this discrimination of insurmountable proportions.

Read the story here and see the newscast.
http://www.lesbiatopia.com/2008/07/lesbian-partner-sues-hospital-story.html

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Bill Graber said…
Thank you for the link back.... This was truly a heartbreaking story and I cried all the while I was researching and writing it.
7/9/08, 9:42 PM
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