Posted on 06/27/2015 12:09:54 PM PDT by EveningStar
I'll tell you something I know for fact from first hand experience. A marriage license does not mean you will have full say in your spouses care if your spouse can not make the decision. You can not in some cases but the state can make them. I know because about 13 or so years ago I almost took my wife by force against ones who may have tried to stop me had it become necessary out of state for medical treatment because as her husband I was not allowed to make a critical decision. BYW I had signed for most of her care up to that point including surgeries.
She had an extreme adverse reaction to some medications which although she was conscious she could not make rational decisions. Because the attending ER doctor wrongfully determined without so much as a blood work testing and PDR look up of her medications to have a mental condition. At that point I was forbidden any treatment say and the state called in. A few days later I diagnosed her condition for them because I looked up the suspected medications on line. The condition being an extreme adverse reaction to prescription medication given her. However a Medical POA would have allowed for me too have that say even though a marriage license would not so the Fags argument for need of marriage to determine other "whatevers" care is actually Bogus. Anyone can give any other adult their medical POA.
On the other hand when her final days of life came a few months ago I signed the Home Hospice paperwork. I also signed for a Trach to be put in a few days earlier.
Our doctor told me individual states have laws as too whom has the legal say in a spouses physical care if no POA papers are signed. First is the patients spouse. Next is the eldest offspring of patient if age of majority then next one if same, after that comes parents.
I also signed for my dads permissions when he was dieing so Mom didn't have the burden placed on her. The Gay Mafia is using everything they can think of and blowing things way out of proportion too justify legalization of their perversion. Medical POA has been a long recognized writ. So much so hospitals encourage spouse to have them. Is there a law against designating anyone other than spouse of offspring as POA? No. A person can designate a stranger if they are agreeable.
Not all Republicans are as spineless as you, squeamishly cowering over the prospect of rocking the boat, pissing off their corporate sponsors, or the nebulous "independent voters". Republicans with your imagination get all their ideas from Democrats, then try to put the Republican brand on Democrat ideas -- like they're doing now with Obamacare, secretly relieved upon hearing the Supreme Court decision. That's how we ended up with dramatically more entitlements and socialism, because of cowards that campaign to the right and then govern to the left -- because, as you say, that's "the reality we live in". You probably have a picture of Karl Rove on your desk.
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Rand Paul: Government Should Get Out of the Marriage Business Altogether
http://time.com/3939374/rand-paul-gay-marriage-supreme-court/
There’s nothing spineless about living in the real world.
And there Rand Paul shows that much like his father he has no clue as to why government does what it does. Government has been in the marriage business since the Code of Hammurabi, it ain’t getting out of it any time soon.
I’m curious what happens to divorce.....
Civil marriage was lost yesterday. States failing to issue marriage licenses AT ALL, only insures the states won’t have to endorse sin. AND it takes a victory away from the left.
their goal to destroy the institution of marriage
a victory for the left
25 years of that and 90% of Americans won’t remember what marriage was.
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