I know same sex partners who do indeed want this. Another example of not presuming that all members of a "group" think the same.

What?

And this isn't about forcing hospitals to serve (treat) patients. It's about granting partners access to the patients.

*nods*

ETA: Damn, I should have checked with Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton before I made that comment.

Hold that thought...

If you're talking criminal, they'd generally fall under offenses against public morality and decency. A personal (civil) claim would be for alienation of affection, although that doesn't actually have to involve adultery.

Oh ok and there have been a couple of alienation of infections...affection...cases in the media recently.

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This shows that you don't know anything about hospitals. The government can and DOES tell hospitals who they will treat. No hospital can turn down a patient who presents to their facility in an emergency. Hospitals have to demonstrate HIPAA compliance which is a federal regulation. I could go on and on. If you take a single dollar of federal money in the form of Medicare or Medicaid payments, you are at the mercy of federal mandates. And... asking that hospitals respect patients' wishes with regard to who gets to visit them is hardly the same as forcing a physician to perform a controversial procedure.

AOII I can name lots of people who go to the hospital of their religion because it is their belief and wouldn't want something they feel is wrong using their hospital. It is a religious hospitals right to turn away anyone. Are you going to say next that sororities should admit transexuals since they are now technically women?

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I'm saying** that stuff in response to someone's comment that no one is running around making laws about fornication and stuff. I forget who said that and I'm too lazy to scroll back through to see who did it.

Nothing to do with anything.

Shut up. You're reaching.

Actually that's a good point though. If they want to join a sorority, can you legally tell them no?
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Membership selection is private for a reason.

Yeeessss, but we all know how that goes. The minute they get rejected they will scream discrimination or something. That happens NOW even without the transgender issue. lol

Mary, I'm actually a physician, so I know of what I speak with regard to hospitals. Religious hospitals don't get to turn people away for those kinds of reasons, as much as you think they do. You may be able to "name lots of people who go to the hospital of their religion because it is their belief" but they're ignorant if they think the only people there are other people who believe the same way they do. You don't have to be catholic to go to a catholic hospital or work at a catholic hospital. They actually have gay physicians working at religious hospitals all over the country. And if a sorority took federal money to operate, the federal government could tell that sorority who they had to accept as members, even if they were transexuals.

Yeah, he's Oneness Pentecostal. His website (and that of his church) used to state his belief on the whole Trinity thing, but he has since changed/re-worded it.

He basically believes that the Trinity is polytheistic--the whole idea of 3 in 1. His belief is that it was first God. Then he transformed into Jesus (meaning there was no longer "God") and then when Jesus ascended into heaven, he transformed into the Holy Spirit. So now, there is no 'God,' there is no 'Jesus,' it is now the Holy Spirit. He will say "Jesus" but he means the Holy Spirit, not Jesus himself.

I don't agree with his belief, but I very much enjoy hearing Bishop Jakes preach.