Gay Man Arrested At Partner's Bedside

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If say...you were unmarried and your girlfriend got sick...and you wanted to visit her at the hospital...

How would you feel if you were arrested for caring about your partner?

THIS is why we need gay marriage.

LEE’S SUMMIT, Mo. — A Lee’s Summit man is angry that hospital personnel ordered him off hospital property and police arrested him after he refused to leave the bedside of his sick partner.
Roger Gorley went to visit his partner, Allen, at Research Medical Center, 2316 E. Meyer Blvd., Tuesday afternoon. He says when he got there, a member of Allen’s family asked him to leave.

When Gorley refused, he says hospital security forcibly removed him from the property and put him in handcuffs. “I was not recognized as being the husband, I wasn’t recognized as being the partner,” Gorley said. While not legally recognized as a couple in Missouri, Gorley says he and his partner Allen have been in a civil union for nearly five years, and make medical decisions for each other.

He says the nurse refused to verify they also share joint Power of Attorney. “She didn’t even bother to go look it up to check into it,” Gorley said. “He’s been at the psychiatric unit part several times.”

According to an arrest report from Kansas City, Mo., police, a security supervisor at Research Medical Center was contacted by Emergency Room personnel after Gorley refused to leave the room of his partner. The hospital said they did not want to have any visitors to Allen’s room. Gorley was told to leave the room by nurses and security, but refused, the police report said.

“After several verbal attempts to get [Gorley] to leave the room, he continually refused and began to cause a disturbance,” the report said. “[He] began to cause a disturbance by physically resisting security officers as they escorted him out of the patient’s room.”

Arrest documents say Gorley was placed into handcuffs after a short struggle with hospital security. When police arrived, hospital security officials said they wanted to arrest Gorley for trespassing and disorderly conduct. He was then taken to the police station to be booked, documents show.
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If my girlfriend and I were unmarried, it would be by our choice. We would therefore not have the benefits and protections that married couples enjoy.

In this case, the couple is not allowed to marry. In this case they did what the neocons say to do and got legal papers that were supposed to do the same thing.

But it obviously didn't work.

According to what I read a bit ago, the hospital changed their tune and is allowing the man to see his partner now.
 
Howey said:
If say...you were unmarried and your girlfriend got sick...and you wanted to visit her at the hospital...

How would you feel if you were arrested for caring about your partner?

THIS is why we need gay marriage.
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Empathy for others not like themselves is not a strong point amongst Conservative Christians.

I have a co-worker who is a friend who simply can't wrap his head around the idea that I can be a heterosexual Christian male and support same sex marriage....he quotes me the passage in Leviticus that states homosexuality is an abomination. I ask him if he follows all of the do's and don'ts listed in the rest of the book of Leviticus? He of course says no. That Christ died to make those things deemed sinful and unclean not so anymore.

I say REALLY? He says yes, but homosexuality doesn't count. Because Christ himself called it a sin. I said, well that may be....but Christ spoke out about all kinds of sexual immorality...in fact, in the bible it states that if you even look upon a woman in a lustful way, you've already committed adultery.

So, should we take civil rights away from those people? How about people who take the Lord's name in vain? Lie? Cheat? Covet? How about the sin of greed? Should they all suffer the wrath of inequality in the laws of our country?

Well, he got angry and said that he still feels the way he does and thinks that I cannot be a REAL Christian with my stance on the subject.

I reminded him that we are all lost in sin..there is not one of us alive that is truly righteous. Homosexuality is an easy sin to feel righteous about because it affects so few of us. But make no mistake....it is no "worse" of a sin than any other that us "righteous" people commit every day.

Well, he walked away....agreeing to disagree.

I told this part of the story to get to my point. Homosexuals work, pay taxes, and live normal everyday lives. If they are paying into the system like everyone else, they should have the same rights and benefits as everyone else. Unless we are going to go down the slippery slope of legislating ALL morality issues according to Biblical Law(can anyone say Taliban, or Sharia?)

And relax Christian Conservatives.... there's not a court in the country that will force your church to do the ceremony. I am sure that some lower level ones will try, but it will get shot down in higher courts...because Constitutionally, they can't.

OK....I'm done....thanks for your patience
 
He says the nurse refused to verify they also share joint Power of Attorney. “She didn’t even bother to go look it up to check into it,” Gorley said "He’s been at the psychiatric unit part several times"

According to an arrest report from Kansas City, Mo., police, a security supervisor at Research Medical Center was contacted by Emergency Room personnel after Gorley refused to leave the room of his partner. The hospital said they did not want to have any visitors to Allen’s room. Gorley was told to leave the room by nurses and security, but refused, the police report said."

Psychiatric patients are frequently isolated, especially in the early stages of a crisis. Was the rest of the family allowed in the room? Do we have the whole story here?
 
Howey said:
If say...you were unmarried and your girlfriend got sick...and you wanted to visit her at the hospital...

How would you feel if you were arrested for caring about your partner?

THIS is why we need gay marriage.
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From your link:

UPDATE: Hospital: Man OK to visit sick husband
 
Why do we even have the need for visitation rights? At the very least, we should just be allowed to make a priority list which gives potential visitation rights to anyone named on the list...
 
Threedee said:
Why do we even have the need for visitation rights? At the very least, we should just be allowed to make a priority list which gives potential visitation rights to anyone named on the list...
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What if you're incapacitated? Who makes the list?
 
Well, I meant that the list could be drawn up ahead of time and submitted to your nearest DHHS or something. You would literally have your entire juvenile life to get around to drawing up your initial list, and prior to that, your legal guardians could just dictate to hospital staff who's allowed and who is not, etc.
 
Visitation is just one of the thousands of benefits a married couple enjoys, why should "married" gay couples be forced to get legal documents for thousands of possable eventualities when married hetrosexual couples are not required to do so?
 
any two human beings should be allowed to have a civil union that exactly mirrors marriage.

What a sociopathic thing to do by keeping a dying persons loved one from them.

that family of his are sociopaths and so are these laws
 
Howey said:
If say...you were unmarried and your girlfriend got sick...and you wanted to visit her at the hospital...

How would you feel if you were arrested for caring about your partner?

THIS is why we need gay marriage.
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I completely agree that gay couples should be afforded the same rights granted to straight couples. The only question I have from that article is the part where they said the hospital didn't want anyone in the room. If the rest of the family was also being kept out, then Gorley was in the wrong regardless of being the partner. If other members of the family were in the room, then Gorley was right to do what he did.
 
Its the correct label for people and ideas that are anti human compassion.

SOCIOPATH.

one in four people are sociopaths.

3 will be a man and 1 will be a woman.


that is alot of sociopaths.

your party is run by them
 
Jarod said:
Visitation is just one of the thousands of benefits a married couple enjoys, why should "married" gay couples be forced to get legal documents for thousands of possable eventualities when married hetrosexual couples are not required to do so?
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for the same reason that unmarried heterosexual couples are required to do so.....because the law does not create a presumptive right among unmarried persons.....as a lawyer you should have known that one already.....
 
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