- May 2016
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www.americanprogress.org www.americanprogress.org
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Despite these advances, disheartening circumstances continue to arise in which people are denied the right to visit their same-sex partners in the hospital. These complications occur even when couples have proof of their relationships. In Missouri, Roger Gorley was removed from his partner’s bedside in April 2013 even though he was in a civil union with the patient, Allen Mansell, and had a health care proxy for visitation. When Mansell’s family members objected to Gorley’s visit, hospital staff called the police, who arrested Gorley and escorted him out of the hospital.
But.... in 2013 another same sex couple faced discrimination in the hospital leading for one of them to be arrested.
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Nearly a year after issuing the regulations, HHS released a guidance letter in September 2011 to implement and enforce visitation, health care proxy, and advance-directive requirements. Through this guidance, HHS required State Survey Agencies, which conduct compliance inspections on behalf of CMS, to ensure that hospitals participating in Medicare and Medicaid programs have established written policies to implement the November 2010 regulations. This letter also clarified that the visitation regulations require hospitals to provide visitation rights to domestic partners of incapacitated patients without requiring documentation of those relationships in most circumstances. In those limited circumstances where documentation can be requested, the information required of same-sex couples cannot be more stringent than that which is required of different-sex couples.
equality in visitation rights
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These forms also serve as a medical power of attorney, allowing patients to authorize their partners to make medical decisions on their behalf if they were to become incapacitated. In states where same-sex marriages, domestic partnerships, and/or civil unions are not legal, partners can use these proxies to prove relationship to their injured loved ones so that they can visit them.
even in places that didn't condone same sex couples, they were able to use proxies in their favor.
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President Barack Obama issued a presidential memorandum four years ago on hospital visitation that called for “appropriate rulemaking … to ensure that hospitals that participate in Medicare or Medicaid respect the rights of patients to designate visitors.” The memorandum recommended that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, or HHS, detail guidelines for hospital visitation that prohibit discrimination based on “race, color, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability.” HHS issued such regulations in November 2010. The regulations prohibit these types of discrimination in hospital visitation and make it clear that designated visitors should be permitted access to patients regardless of whether they have a legally recognized relationship. These regulations also require hospitals to have written guidelines and inform patients of their visitation rights.
President Barack Obama called a “appropriate rulemaking … to ensure that hospitals that participate in Medicare or Medicaid respect the rights of patients to designate visitors.” which stated the prohibition of discriminating people based on race, skin pigmentation, national origin, religion, sexual orientation...... in 2010
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In February 2007, Janice Langbehn was denied the right to visit her same-sex partner in the intensive care unit at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, Florida. Langbehn and her partner, Lisa Pond, were vacationing with their three children when Pond suffered an aneurysm. At the hospital, nurses and doctors refused to let Langbehn or her children see Pond, and they did not provide them with adequate updates on her condition. Pond eventually slipped into a coma and died while her family members were trying to persuade administrators to let them into her room. Lambda Legal—a nonprofit organization that focuses on the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender, or LGBT, community—then filed a lawsuit against Jackson Memorial on behalf of Langbehn. The case drew national media attention that eventually prompted the White House to address equal visitation and medical decision-making rights for same-sex couples. More hospital personnel are aware of this issue today, but gaps in this awareness still remain, leaving same-sex couples vulnerable to discrimination.
because of their sexuality they were denied the right to see their family member, because of this Lambda Legal was formed.
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www.livescience.com www.livescience.com
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Suicide is the third leading cause of death among young adults from ages 15 to 24
a grate percentage of our youth are five times more likely to commit suicide, which is the 3rd main cause of death of those from 15 to 24 (this age is very impressionable)
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www.brainyquote.com www.brainyquote.com
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Every time I hear someone making ignorant comments about the supposed 'evils' of homosexuality, I think about the true evil of the high suicide rates among gay and lesbian teens
People are so unaware of the discriminatory comments that they make and how it overall affects the community. They may assume that society is under a negative influence from homosexuality, but the real negativity resided in those who falsely accuse, and are so indulged in someone's personal life that they would go as far as to over look the drastic increase in suicide rates
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www.brainyquote.com www.brainyquote.com
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Ironically, when I've asked my straight friends to join me in hanging a rainbow flag, they answer, 'But someone might think we're gay,' not realizing that is exactly the point. To be mistaken for the oppressed is to momentarily become the oppressed.
sayings such as "you are no longer a real man" by those who oppose homosexuality has put much hurt and fear in many young male hearts, and egos. Many are not even willing to associate with those who are gay because they don't want to viewed as such. It all comes down to a popularity contest in a sense because a teenager my not personally have a problem with homosexuality, but they don't want to lose their superiority and ranking amongst their peers.
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www.brainyquote.com www.brainyquote.com
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Every time I hear someone making ignorant comments about the supposed 'evils' of homosexuality, I think about the true evil of the high suicide rates among gay and lesbian teens.
People are so unaware of the discriminatory comments that they make and how it overall affects the community. They may assume that society is under a negative influence from homosexuality, but the real negativity resided in those who falsely accuse, and are so indulged in someone's personal life that they would go as far as to over look the drastic increase in suicide rates.
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- Apr 2016
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borngay.procon.org borngay.procon.org
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in contrast to believing that being gay is a development disorder, studies show that the development of LGBT people aren't different from those in favor of a male to female relationship.
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Many people of the of a religious background view the LBGT community as to having development disorder because they were not properly given the sexual needs, or love they longed for
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borngay.procon.org borngay.procon.org
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Research suggests that sexual identities (including gender identity, gender-role behavior, and sexual orientation) develop in much the same ways among children of lesbian mothers as they do among children of heterosexual parents."
The parents have very little influence on their children's sexual orientation
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Are Children Who Are Raised by Gay Parents More Likely to Be Gay Themselves?
Many tend to go against same sex marriages because they believe that it would cause an increase in the rates of children being gay
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www.listland.com www.listland.com
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add $142 million to the economy.
With more people being able to wed, their would be a significant increase in what the economy would obtain due to marriage costs
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Members of the LGBT community wish to marry for the same reasons we all wish to get married, and must undergo the same processes if they were allowed to marry.
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www.tfpstudentaction.org www.tfpstudentaction.org
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People say that same sex marriage is a sin, but so is not following the 10 commandments if your Christian. "“You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor" And also, thou shall not judge.
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From my understanding, from what I have learned in my African American/ World History classes, bible justifies slavery. So just because it says it in the bible it's law? Also, many ministers are apart of the LGBT community, an says that there is nothing stated in the bible that says same sex is a sin. Now, granted there may be different versions of this holy book, but at the end of the day we all sin.
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I tend to see many of the same arguments being used to oppose same sex marriage to how African Americans once was being treated. Comments such as "calling somethin one thing doesn't make it as such" is hurtful. Both African Americans and fellow supporters of the LGBT community have fought for their equality for decades and often viewed as less than an average person. Just for LGBT marriage to just now be passed shows how closed minded people still are. What if I said a marriage between a man and a woman shouldn't be classified as a marriage because when two people wed they are intended to stay together, but divorce exist.
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gaymarriage.procon.org gaymarriage.procon.org
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People should not have their tax dollars used to support something they believe is wrong.
Many people put forth money to help sustain something that they don't agree with but it allows a broader umbrella for change that benefits others that aren't so privileged
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Legalizing gay marriage could lead down a "slippery slope," giving people in polygamous, incestuous, bestial, and other nontraditional…
Because a relationship that is considered non "traditional" meaning a relationship outside of a male and female, can lead to other relationships that are considered inhumane
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just because it is considered normal for a child to grow up with both a male and female, doesn't mean those children would have a better life if their parents were of the same sex. Children with a mother and a father would still face bullying, child abuse, and would still have the access to drugs and alcohol.
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Just because someone obtain different preferences compared to the "norm" doesn't mean that they should be categorized as second class.
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Now that there have been other forms of marriage over time, gay marriage is more widely accepted
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