"Michael kept the parents from being with Terri when she died!!!" [View All]

[Bluebear]

I have no idea whether that is true or not. I bring it up only for lurking conservatives to ponder this point:

This is what the gay marriage debate boils down to. It's not about the wedding cake having two grooms on it, it's not about the wedding notice of two lesbians being printed in the Times-Picayune next to your daughter KayBob's announcement or any other stupid trappings that 'threaten the holy sanctity of marriage as being between one man and one woman'....

Scenarios such as the header of this thread happen every day to gay people who are kept from making health decisions for their partners; Dying gay men and women have been kept from seeing their partners of 5, 10, 20, 30, 50 years by blood-relatives of the dying who wouldn't recognize the "lifestyle" of the patient. The wishes of the dying are ignored every day as gay partners are shut out from visiting their life partners AT ALL by mothers, fathers, sons and daughters of gay men and women. Funny thing, nobody was camping outside the hospital with bagpipes and megaphones wailing about this injustice.

Whatever happened with Schindler/Schiavo this morning happens every day. Michael Schiavo happened to hold the legal paperwork that made him guardian and decision-maker this time and as much as it rocks your world, it's the legal rights and responsibilities of gay marriage that gay Americans are seeking.