I think the patient or next of kin or whatever should decide on who can visit. Its none of the governments business.
If I want my best fishing buddy to visit that should be okay too. If they want their best fisting.... lol
Yes, as soon as the Gay Lover enters the hospital and says “I’m here to visit my life partner, etc.” The hospital should get their name and address and send them the hospital bills.
Am i to understand that this gives greater freedom to homosexuals than heterosexuals as regards who may visit?
They had that right before. It's called a power of attorney. All Bam did was make aberrant behavior more mainstream.
How can it apply to widows and widowers?
I went with my husband and several other family members to visit my day old great nephew. I asked my sister in law whether we had too many visiters in the room (6) and she works in that hospital and she just laughed and said, not if we don’t tell anyone. Well my niece’s nurse was in and out several times and she didn’t care.
How about a ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy? You just say who you wish to have in the room and not why or have to give details. Why does the gov’t even need to stick their noses in it?
“The conservative pro-family group is concerned that the directive, though innocuous itself, is part of a larger effort to undermine marriage and the Defense of Marriage Act.”
It seems to me to undercut one of the current rationales being used to push gay marriage. That is, if gays can obtain this new-found “right” outside of marriage, then the case for having society recognize gay marriage to accord them this right is no longer necessary. I concur with another poster that in theory, before this policy change, gays could use a power of attorney that I presume would have accorded a partner all these rights. But absent having done so, there apparently were gay partners who ended up getting excluded due to blood/marriage requirements that I think likely were imposed by hospitals just to keep the visiting situation manageable [what hospital would want to risk letting in a self-declared friend who turned out to be a mortal enemy?] Heterosexuals have no need of executing powers of attorney for their spouses or other family members. So I think this is a reasonable attempt to “level the playing field” in that regard. It certainly would be cumbersome if the government or hospitals required us all to execute legal agreements with all spouse/blood relatives as a condition of their visiting.
That said, one hopes this policy applies to the far larger number of cohabiting heterosexual couples (whose behavior arguably is equally “sinful” in the eyes of the Bible) rather than being an exclusive prerogative a gay partners. As another poster suggested, the easiest solution is for the patient to designate the list of acceptable visitors, subject to constraints on “reasonable” numbers. Even within families or marriage relationships, there may be individuals whose presence would be detrimental to patient recovery. Who better than the patient would know this?
Why would it not also include unmarried heterosexual couples?
some Christian leaders ok with anything...they are apostate
what this does is allow the fag partner to push him or herself on the family
who in the case of dying homosexuals are often the ones stuck with the chore...fops running buddies fade quick
besides...gay relationships are very very very fickle and hardly monogamous
a monogamous male homosexual relartiuonship is like the unicorn even though they like to pretend they are like married straights...
before anyone here gets stoked up...I have cared for dying AIDs patient no one else wanted...not the bathhouse gang let me assure you
being homosexual is ridden with pitfalls beyond the peccadilloes more often than not
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People can already draw up Power of Attorney papers. This is just an excuse to normalize homosexuality, push it down everyones' throats even more, and 0bama wants to curry favor with the tiny percentage of homoesxuals and their pals (more pals)*. He said he and the missus would be the best friends sexual perverts have ever had in the White House. So now he's paying them back for his support.
*There are at most 2% of the population who identify as homosexual (fluid number, as more are recruited and others leave the "gay" life; but they have become a major pet cause of leftsts, so there are actually more leftists who support the homosexual agenda than there are acutal homoseuxals.
If one's "sexual orientation" is bestiality (hey, if "civil rights pioneer" Frank Kameny doesn't think anything is wrong with it...), then does that mean a Shetland Pony can be lead into a hospital for "visitation rights"? (Nurse, please pull the curtain, we'd like to be alone for a few minutes).
Based on the amount of disease, drug abuse, alcoholism, etc. etc. etc. that is attributed to the homosexual lifestyle, it's likely that the "loved one" visiting is partially responsible for putting said patient into the hospital.
And here’s the crux of the issue: “letting” rather than “forcing” compliance. I believe legally executed contracts and wills should hold sway, but default recognition at homosexuals’ whim is what is being sought here. So you have a “married” sodomite couple from mAssachusetts now demanding that their “marriage” be recognized in a normal state for purposes of being treated as a spouse in a hospital setting. It’s a wedge that the sodomites will capitalize on for all it’s worth.
First of all, this is nonsense. Secondly, anyone can designate a durable medical power of attorney to anyone they wish. It takes a few minutes. In other words, this is a solution to a problem that simply doesn't exist.