Obama's plan to give gay visitation rights in hospitals.

Do any of you have stories of being unable to visit your loved one in the hospital?  Probably not.  The majority of America is not homosexual.  This is the big issue that gay people are afraid of running into one day in their lives.  Somehow gays can suffer the small, daily indignities.  The insignificant things related to someone looking them over to help someone else in a store.  When it comes to laws separating us from a loved one, though, we are outraged, and we are unprotected.  The laws are under the guise of protecting a patient's privacy.  Now imagine that the patient's privacy the hospital is protecting is your partner! 

Someone reading this article right now has experienced this.  Some of the folks reading this aren't old enough to understand or they haven't had a loved one in the hospital.  You see, this terrible issue preys upon the old and the weak.  As we age, we find our loved ones sick more often, your partner has more of a chance of being an inpatient at some point; and of course, you may experience the loss of a partner.  Can you IMAGINE being turned away from your partner or spouse's bedside at this most fragile time?  If you saw that an elderly person or a similarly "weak" person was being intimated or berated, wouldn't you step in to redirect the offending party?  Why do some Americans not have the same instincts in regards to GLBTQQ people?

Many people believe in a higher power that judges now or will judge at the end of one's mortal life.  When a lesbian or gay man is turned away from entering the room of a dying partner, they have been judged.  Judged not by god or a jury of their peers, but by a fellow human who assumes that they know the thoughts and heart of a higher power. 

I can think of no greater sin than one against one's fellow (wo)man.  -Joyce Respess