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November 8, 2004

These aren't gay issues

I've been listening to CNBC's Meet The Press with Karl Rove and Barack Obama for the last thirty minutes. The topic of civil issues for same sex couples keeps coming up. The main points they mentioned are whether gay people can visit their lovers in the hospital and whether or not they can inherit property with rights like a spouse to avoid being taxed.

These aren't gay issues.

Inheritance taxes should be abolished. ALL legal heirs would then be treated the same. Problem solved. But no . . . the politicians struggle with this because it's supposedly a "gay issue." Hogwash. It's an issue that concerns all taxpayers who expect to leave property to their heirs when they die. It's bad enough that we have to pay inheritance taxes now. Extending the right to inherit property to those in "civil unions" while making the rest of us continue to pay inheritance taxes would be highly discriminatory.

Now, about hospital visits . . . Rove mentioned it three or four times. This defies common sense.

If a doctor limits a patient to one visitor, that visitor should be whoever the patient wants to see REGARDLESS of their legal, sexual, or marital connection to the patient. Surely there are some patients who would prefer having a close friend or a minister to visit. Whatever legal provision limits the visitor to being a family member should simply be struck down. Again, couching such legislation in language that would extend the right to gays while leaving the rest of us out would just make the situation less fair.

Rant over . . . next week I'll give the path to world peace.
posted by David Bruce Murray @ 11:44:00 PM


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