After 52 years- it's about time one of those freaks are gone

[Tucker]

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WillParkinson Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Thu Jul-14-11 09:56 AM
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52 years together and now one is dying...
   
My boss called me aside today to talk about his friend whose partner-in-life is dying. They're going to the hospital today to be with him. Right now the hospital is doing what it can to make the man comfortable in his last hours.

As he spoke a lump formed in my throat. That will be me and Paul one day. We're headed to the 25 year mark and he's my everything. I cannot imagine the pain and suffering this gentleman is going through right now. He has said he does not know how he can go on.

52 years together and they cannot legally wed in their home state and it has a prick-face governor who wanted to abandon the same-sex partner registry because of his inane bigotry. 52 years and when one dies the other is left with memories of his 'friend' because he cannot be his husband in Wisconsin.

I defy anyone to tell me that 52 years together, living as spouses, is any less than a heterosexual couple and does not deserve the same dignity that their heterosexual counterparts take for granted every day.

No big loss. How much suffering has the faggot sect brought upon decent and civilized people with their hedonistic, perverted lifestyle.

barbtries Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Thu Jul-14-11 09:59 AM
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1. it is no less
   
i hope to still be alive when this is a non-issue. best to you.

You'll be dead and forgotten by then.

fascisthunter Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Thu Jul-14-11 10:01 AM
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3. I'm Sorry...
   
best wishes to you and your loved ones.

Do you have a read comprehension problem? The OP doesn't even know the asshole in question. Hell. It's probably just a bouncy anyway.

Lone_Star_Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Thu Jul-14-11 10:09 AM
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6. There is no excuse for not respecting a person's civil rights.
   
Which is what this is about, equal rights for everyone. Not just those who some politician someplace decides should be respected.

My heart is with your bosses friend.

Your rights cease when they interfere with mine. I don't need to see two men giving BJ's in public or having some queer hanging around a elementary school.

polmaven Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Thu Jul-14-11 10:29 AM
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8. Please tell me
   
he will be allowed to stay with his partner through the end. Please, please, please!

What a sad story....Thank you for sharing, Will. We must not ever become complacent about this issue because other issues seem more important. There is nothing more important than love.

Nope. He has no rights. As it should be.

enlightenment (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Thu Jul-14-11 10:56 AM
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11. When I was about 12 years old, in the late 1960s,
   
My family was vacationing at a small cabin that my father had built in south western Colorado. One day he and I were walking down the gravel road in the area and stopped to pass the time with two 'elderly' (probably in their 60s, but I was very young) gents who were also strolling and enjoying the sunshine.

After they passed, I asked my dad why they had been holding hands when they walked up to us. My dad explained that they were a 'couple'. I remember being confused about that. He said, "they're like your mom and me - they love each other and live together like a couple".

My dad was born in 1922. He was raised by a conservative Nazarene mother and father. He had planned on becoming a Nazarene minister, but decided to make the Air Force a career after his service in WWII and served for 32 years. He voted Republican until he was in his late 70s.

But he understood love and commitment - and that those things have nothing to do with the gender of one's partner.

*I got to know those gents in the next few years - both British expats, one a writer and the other an artist, both loved to garden and told side-splitting (probably too mature for my ears, but what the hell . . .) jokes. Loved dogs, hated cats, and taught me to like asparagus. Made me believe that love can last a lifetime.

BULLSHIT. Don't spin your bouncy to take away some of the light from the OP's bouncy. Start your own lying bouncy thread.

If the two had openly held hands in the 60's, they would have been coated in honey and left for the bears.

As liberal as the local daily newspapers are, half the shit that is posted on DU would be censored.

[DumbAss Tanker]

Lone_Star_Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Thu Jul-14-11 10:09 AM
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6. There is no excuse for not respecting a person's civil rights.

...If such rights actually exist.  The "Right" to marry anything but a member of the opposite sex is completely alien to 10,000 years of known human civilzation, despite its popularity in the currently-living (de)generations. 

[Texacon]

52 years together and they cannot legally wed in their home state and it has a prick-face governor who wanted to abandon the same-sex partner registry because of his inane bigotry. 52 years and when one dies the other is left with memories of his 'friend' because he cannot be his husband in Wisconsin.

This dude doesn't even know the 'couple' in question yet makes the assumption that they would WANT to marry.  What an arrogant ass.

Last I checked not all gays wanted to marry nor did 100% of them think they should have the protected right to marry as a homosexual couple.

KC

[GOBUCKS]

He has said he does not know how he can go on.

Yes he does. He'll just go back to a public mens' room and hook up with another queer.

[dandi]

WillParkinson Donating Member (1000+ posts)      Thu Jul-14-11 09:56 AM
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I defy anyone to tell me that 52 years together, living as spouses, is any less than a heterosexual couple and does not deserve the same dignity that their heterosexual counterparts take for granted every day.

Two homosexuals buttslamming each other for 52 years is less than a heterosexual couple and they do not "deserve" one ounce of "dignity".

[DefiantSix]

WillParkinson Donating Member (1000+ posts)      Thu Jul-14-11 09:56 AM
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I defy anyone to tell me that 52 years together, living as spouses, is any less than a heterosexual couple and does not deserve the same dignity that their heterosexual counterparts take for granted every day.

Two homosexuals buttslamming each other for 52 years is less than a heterosexual couple and they do not "deserve" one ounce of "dignity".

Two queers ass poking each other for 52 years is far, far less than a NORMAL heterosexual couple's relationship, and such a queer relationship deserves all of the scorn and ridicule a healthy society can heap upon it.

[dandi]

Two homosexuals buttslamming each other for 52 years is less than a heterosexual couple and they do not "deserve" one ounce of "dignity".


Two queers ass poking each other for 52 years is far, far less than a NORMAL heterosexual couple's relationship, and such a queer relationship deserves all of the scorn and ridicule a healthy society can heap upon it.

[vesta111]

It's very hot in the house, makes me mean, and this pisses me off.

All people need to do is to give each other a Power of Attorney to have the same rights as a heterosexual  married couple.   SO why don't they do that.??

Because basically they do not trust each other no matter if they have been together 75 years and a day. 

Back years ago a roommate and I took a 2 week vacation to Canada, she at 30 something had never been out of the State of VA for more then 50 miles in any direction. Before we left we each got a power of Attorney to use in case one of us became ill or there was an accident.

This covered us so until our family could get to us the other could make decisions on health care or what not if the other could not make them for themselves.  Also gave each other permission to use pooled money for lodging and food until our family's arrived.

Big deal, had anything happend we were covered and we both knew the others wishes. This was a Limited Power of Attorney, we could not sell the car in our friends name or enlist them in the Army. We could not borrow money in the others name but could use joint funds to get home. 

Why cannot same sex couples also do this, if they jointly own a home, or become drastically ill, the other is in the same position as a heterosexual married couple. 

Wills can be made just in case there is family that one partner can prevent from coming in and closing them out of their own home, or claiming everything for their family as next of kin.

Bank accounts that are joint can be flagged as to go to the survivor of the account.----All kinds of ways to secure money and property for same sex partners.

One can adopt the other, making them the main heir.---------

This is really weird but the gay life is so called for being promiscuous and meant to be the exact opposite of heterosexual life. Very little bonds the couple unless they jointly adopt a child, then both are responsible for the child.

Anyone read the book or see the old movie " The Portrait of Dorian Gray"  ??

Things will get odd for the gays as the restrictions of Heterosexual life style will bite them in the Ass.  Pretending to be living a lifestyle like the heterosexuals will become old news after a few years for MOST, some may manage it for 50 years but this is an unusual life style for a gay.

Darn in heterosexual life it is a huge party for those that stay married for 50+ years---Can the gays do it???

[true_blood]

WillParkinson Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Thu Jul-14-11 09:56 AM
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52 years together and now one is dying...
   
My boss called me aside today to talk about his friend whose partner-in-life is dying. They're going to the hospital today to be with him. Right now the hospital is doing what it can to make the man comfortable in his last hours.

As he spoke a lump formed in my throat. That will be me and Paul one day. We're headed to the 25 year mark and he's my everything. I cannot imagine the pain and suffering this gentleman is going through right now. He has said he does not know how he can go on.

52 years together and they cannot legally wed in their home state and it has a prick-face governor who wanted to abandon the same-sex partner registry because of his inane bigotry. 52 years and when one dies the other is left with memories of his 'friend' because he cannot be his husband in Wisconsin.

I defy anyone to tell me that 52 years together, living as spouses, is any less than a heterosexual couple and does not deserve the same dignity that their heterosexual counterparts take for granted every day.

No big loss. How much suffering has the faggot sect brought upon decent and civilized people with their hedonistic, perverted lifestyle.

This reply got you a H5 from me. Great answer and how so very, very true.