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Shadowex3 · 04-17-2010, 12:25 AM

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Originally Posted by Hektore

It's fun to joke about...until you realize those people are deathly serious.

You KNOW something's wrong when the jews feel sorry for a group.

Ourcrazymodern? · 04-17-2010, 12:15 PM

As you KNOW if any group feels like victims, they are.

lionrock · 04-17-2010, 10:11 PM

PHelps is coming to town in Gainesville tomorrow.

FelixP · 04-18-2010, 06:59 AM

I don't see the point of prom, but if someone wants to go, they should have the right to do so with anyone they wish.

But seriously, why go to prom at all? If I'm going to wear a tux and spend thousands of dollars to get laid, there damn well better be a high class hooker involved.

Tully Mars · 04-18-2010, 08:09 AM

I just read this whole thread. Must now go bang my head against something hard for a while.

I can't fathom that's we're still treating any group as lower class citizens. Just plain pisses me off.

Ourcrazymodern? · 04-18-2010, 09:39 AM

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Originally Posted by Tully Mars

Must now go bang my head against something hard for a while.

(I think I misread this the first time.)

I can't fathom that's we're still treating any group as lower class citizens. Just plain pisses me off.

That's just us failing seeing ourselves.

genuinegirly · 04-19-2010, 02:13 PM

Ok, this one is just plain crooked: Even though they had all of their paperwork in order, Sonoma County forced this elderly couple apart, then sold all of their belongings when one of them died.

Sonoma County CA separates elderly gay couple and sells all of their worldly possessions | The Bilerico Project

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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.

Ignoring Clay's significant role in Harold's life, the county continued to treat Harold like he had no family and went to court seeking the power to make financial decisions on his behalf. Outrageously, the county represented to the judge that Clay was merely Harold's "roommate." The court denied their efforts, but did grant the county limited access to one of Harold's bank accounts to pay for his care.

What happened next is even more chilling.

Without authority, without determining the value of Clay and Harold's possessions accumulated over the course of their 20 years together or making any effort to determine which items belonged to whom, the county took everything Harold and Clay owned and auctioned off all of their belongings. Adding further insult to grave injury, the county removed Clay from his home and confined him to a nursing home against his will. The county workers then terminated Clay and Harold's lease and surrendered the home they had shared for many years to the landlord.

Three months after he was hospitalized, Harold died in the nursing home. Because of the county's actions, Clay missed the final months he should have had with his partner of 20 years. Compounding this tragedy, Clay has literally nothing left of the home he had shared with Harold or the life he was living up until the day that Harold fell, because he has been unable to recover any of his property. The only memento Clay has is a photo album that Harold painstakingly put together for Clay during the last three months of his life.

With the help of a dedicated and persistent court-appointed attorney, Anne Dennis of Santa Rosa, Clay was finally released from the nursing home. Ms. Dennis, along with Stephen O'Neill and Margaret Flynn of Tarkington, O'Neill, Barrack & Chong, now represent Clay in a lawsuit against the county, the auction company, and the nursing home, with technical assistance from NCLR. A trial date has been set for July 16, 2010 in the Superior Court for the County of Sonoma.

SecretMethod70 · 04-19-2010, 03:04 PM

What the fuck.

genuinegirly · 04-19-2010, 03:05 PM

Yeah, my thoughts exactly.

spindles · 04-19-2010, 03:20 PM

I'll third that. This thread is just so fucked up.

Tully Mars · 04-19-2010, 03:22 PM

The threads not the problem. The thread is fine. The policies, actions and bigotry exposed here is fucked up.

Hektore · 04-19-2010, 04:01 PM

The people are what's fucked up. These inbred mouth-breathers who think they have the right to trample all over another person because of their sexual orientation. If ever there was a segment of society that deserved to be euthanized they would be it.

Baraka_Guru · 04-19-2010, 04:39 PM

What pains me is that we're not hearing all the other stories like this, the stories that go untold.

Until homosexual relationships are accepted as legitimate, there will be no end to the suffering a society will cause people based on their sexuality.

Fears of "normalizing" or "enabling" homosexuality seems to be an impassable barrier. I have faith, however, the that international LGBT community will persist and a day will come when people will be allowed to love without being hated for it.

And to think this is happening in the "land of the free" and the home of the fucking brave. And in one of the more liberalized states at that.

It's pretty fucking frustrating.

Ourcrazymodern? · 04-20-2010, 10:12 AM

If the county was a community it might know itself better. Smaller less tolerants take care of their own, & I don't mean the Equality State. NIMBY is for idiots & its comforts are imaginary. I'm talking out of my ass - thanks for listening.

04-17-2010, 12:15 PM	#42 (permalink)
Ourcrazymodern? still, wondering. Location: South Minneapolis, somewhere near the gorgeous gorge	As you KNOW if any group feels like victims, they are. __________________ BE JUST AND FEAR NOT

04-18-2010, 06:59 AM	#44 (permalink)
FelixP Insane Location: I'm up they see me I'm down.	I don't see the point of prom, but if someone wants to go, they should have the right to do so with anyone they wish. But seriously, why go to prom at all? If I'm going to wear a tux and spend thousands of dollars to get laid, there damn well better be a high class hooker involved. __________________ Free will lies not in the ability to craft your own fate, but in not knowing what your fate is. --Me "I have just returned from visting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world." --Douglas MacArthur

04-18-2010, 08:09 AM	#45 (permalink)
Tully Mars Living in a Warmer Insanity Super Moderator Location: Yucatan, Mexico	I just read this whole thread. Must now go bang my head against something hard for a while. I can't fathom that's we're still treating any group as lower class citizens. Just plain pisses me off. __________________ I used to drink to drown my sorrows, but the damned things have learned how to swim- Frida Kahlo Vice President Starkizzer Fan Club

04-19-2010, 03:04 PM	#48 (permalink)
SecretMethod70 Human Administrator Location: Chicago	What the fuck. __________________ Le temps détruit tout "Musicians are the carriers and communicators of spirit in the most immediate sense." - Kurt Elling

04-19-2010, 03:05 PM	#49 (permalink)
genuinegirly Eat your vegetables Super Moderator Location: Arabidopsis-ville	Yeah, my thoughts exactly. __________________ "Sometimes I have to remember that things are brought to me for a reason, either for my own lessons or for the benefit of others." Cynthetiq "violence is no more or less real than non-violence." roachboy

04-17-2010, 10:11 PM	#43 (permalink)
lionrock Insane	PHelps is coming to town in Gainesville tomorrow.

04-19-2010, 03:20 PM	#50 (permalink)
spindles Mine is an evil laugh Location: Sydney, Australia	I'll third that. This thread is just so fucked up. __________________ who hid my keyboard's PANIC button?

04-19-2010, 03:22 PM	#51 (permalink)
Tully Mars Living in a Warmer Insanity Super Moderator Location: Yucatan, Mexico	The threads not the problem. The thread is fine. The policies, actions and bigotry exposed here is fucked up. __________________ I used to drink to drown my sorrows, but the damned things have learned how to swim- Frida Kahlo Vice President Starkizzer Fan Club

04-19-2010, 04:01 PM	#52 (permalink)
Hektore Junkie Location: Greater Harrisburg Area	The people are what's fucked up. These inbred mouth-breathers who think they have the right to trample all over another person because of their sexual orientation. If ever there was a segment of society that deserved to be euthanized they would be it. __________________ The advantage law is the best law in rugby, because it lets you ignore all the others for the good of the game.

04-19-2010, 04:39 PM	#53 (permalink)
Baraka_Guru warrior bodhisattva Super Moderator Location: East-central Canada	What pains me is that we're not hearing all the other stories like this, the stories that go untold. Until homosexual relationships are accepted as legitimate, there will be no end to the suffering a society will cause people based on their sexuality. Fears of "normalizing" or "enabling" homosexuality seems to be an impassable barrier. I have faith, however, the that international LGBT community will persist and a day will come when people will be allowed to love without being hated for it. And to think this is happening in the "land of the free" and the home of the fucking brave. And in one of the more liberalized states at that. It's pretty fucking frustrating. __________________ Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing? —Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön Humankind cannot bear very much reality. —From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot

04-20-2010, 10:12 AM	#54 (permalink)
Ourcrazymodern? still, wondering. Location: South Minneapolis, somewhere near the gorgeous gorge	If the county was a community it might know itself better. Smaller less tolerants take care of their own, & I don't mean the Equality State. NIMBY is for idiots & its comforts are imaginary. I'm talking out of my ass - thanks for listening. __________________ BE JUST AND FEAR NOT