Gay people should die alone without their loved ones by their sides: AFA

[WillParkinson]

American Family Association And Liberty Counsel Object To Hospital Rights For Gays

"Certainly there are Catholic hospitals and Baptist hospitals that recognize homosexual behavior as sinful behavior and they do not want to take part in affirming homosexual sin under the strong arm of the government." - Liberty Counsel spokesbigot Matt Barber, objecting to new federal rules which stipulate that any hospital that receives Medicare or Medicaid funding must allow LGBT patients to be visited by their partners. The rule goes into effect in 60 days. The American Family Association calls the rule "special visitation rights" under the headline "Fed To Hospitals: Go Gay Or Go Broke."

http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2010/11/american-family-association-and-liberty.html

[theaocp]

1. Cap't Obvious reporting for duty, sir!

These people are horrible examples of humanity's worst traits. Just FYI.

[Meldread]

2. So in other words...

LGBT people pay taxes. Thus, our tax dollars go to fund these religious organizations who run hospitals. Since these organizations don't like us, the government should legally allow them to not only take our money but discriminate against us as well?

I've a better idea. Don't Go Gay, just Go Broke. Stop funding these places.

[rbixby]

5. That's the thing I don't get

government money always comes with strings attached, don't like the strings, don't take the money. Plain and simple like that.

[madrchsod]

3. what would jesus say?

[elehhhhna]

4. Visiting a patient is a "homosexual sin"? That's a stretch.

Next up : Should babydaddys visit their babymommas during the shameful births of their bastards?

What is this, the 1800's?

[struggle4progress]

6. Federal Register: November 19, 2010

(Volume 75, Number 223)
Page 70831-70844
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
42 CFR Parts 482 and 485
<CMS-3228-F>
RIN 0938-AQ06
Medicare and Medicaid Programs: Changes to the Hospital and Critical Access Hospital Conditions of Participation To Ensure Visitation Rights for All Patients
AGENCY: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), HHS.
ACTION: Final rule.
... We provided a 60-day public comment period in which we received approximately 7,600 timely comments from individuals, advocacy organizations, legal firms, and health care facilities. Of the approximately 7,600 timely comments, more than 6,300 were versions of a form letter that all expressed the same sentiment of strong support for the proposed regulation. The remaining comments, with very few exceptions, also expressed strong support for the concept and overall goals of the proposed regulation ...
available via search here: http://www.gpoaccess.gov/fr/

Obama makes hospitals allow gay visitation rights
By Deborah Charles
WASHINGTON | Fri Apr 16, 2010 10:15am EDT
Obama asked the Secretary of Health and Human Services to set up rules to make sure all hospitals that participate in the government-funded Medicare and Medicaid programs respect the rights of patients to designate who may visit them ... "It should be made clear that designated visitors ... should enjoy visitation privileges that are no more restrictive than those that immediate family members enjoy," the memo said ... He cited widows or widowers without children, members of religious orders as examples of people who have been unable to choose the people they want to be at their side in the hospitals that follow a relatives-only visitation policy ... http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE63F0BV20100416

American Family Association And Liberty Counsel had 60 days to comment on the rule, if they so desired. Blowhard Matt Barber doesn't sound like he even bothered to read it, before spewing. It's a nice gambit by the rightwing Evangelicals to try to stir up Catholic anger about the rule, but websearch suggests to me it isn't working: now Father Paul can insist Sister Rosa or Friar Tim are allowed to visit him while he's in traction

[RetiredTrotskyite]

7. Barber Is A Self-Hating Twat!

Funding should be revoked for these institutions. Why on earth should our taxes support their homohatred!