Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker Wants To Put An End To Hospital Visits For Same-Sex Couples
Hopefully soon-to-be ousted criminal Governor of Wisconsin, Scott Walker, is convinced that he will overcome today’s recall election and therefore be able to continue his vile vendetta against all that is good and decent. Not quite content with crushing collective bargaining for all those greedy teachers and firefighters, Gov. Walker is now looking to prevent gay couples from visiting each other in the hospital.
The Koch Brother’s favorite puppet politician aims to stop defending his state’s domestic partner registry on the grounds that it isn’t constitutional.
Members of the conservative group Wisconsin Family Action filed a lawsuit last summer arguing the registry violates the state’s constitutional ban on gay marriage. Former Gov. Jim Doyle, a Democrat who proposed the registry as a means of granting same-sex couples more legal rights, chose to defend the measure and had filed a motion asking Dane County Circuit Judge Daniel Moeser for summary judgment upholding it. Walker, a Republican, inherited the case from Doyle when he took office in January. (Associated Press)
Last week Walker filed the necessary legal documents to gut the registry. The list, which included about 1,330 couples at the end of 2009, allows same-sex couples the right to visit each other in hospitals, make end-of-life decisions, and inherit each others property. You know, like an actual marriage. Perhaps Walker regards gays as being just as greedy as teachers and firefighters.
But much like firefighters and teachers, gay rights groups aren’t going to allow Walker to trample all over their rights in order to appease his severely limited and flawed agenda. Gay rights group Fair Wisconsin has jumped in and pledged to defend the registry. Should Walker’s Iranian election-like tactics prove successful and he’s able to weasel through the recall election, you can expect him to continue to make the lives of gays even more miserable since apparently that’s what limited government is all about these days. If not, I’m sure the Koch Brothers will be sure to get Walker the best Orange jumpsuit money can buy.
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2:03 pm
Brace yourself, folks. The entire country could backslide into the previous century before it resumes its evolution. An army of old white guys backed by mammoth corporations are determined to keep this nation and its people under their control, and theirs alone. They’ve cripped our current government, have convinced much of the citizenry otherwise.
Bigots like Walker aren’t at all rare, even in this day. It was just two centuries ago that people like him were enslaving others, killing on the basis of race, denying a vast swath of our population the most basic rights. Enlightenment and decency don’t happen overnight, the future unfolds haltingly in surges forward and momentary lapses in reverse; but, moving forward is the inevitable outcome.
The Scott Walkers of this world know in their hearts they are on the wrong side of history, but that matters little to them. Fortified by dogma, indemnified by a partisan propaganda machine, they charge on, convinced that anyone not with them is part of a vile conspiracy against America itself. It’s a form of mass hysteria, and I see no alternative but to let it run its course, die of natural causes.
1:30 am
Can someone just nail this Walker douchebag to a cross so we can get on with evolving as a species? And put Dave Henry on the one next to him; that way they can gaze lovingly into each others’ eyes as they go to meet their maker (and get the hell out of out lives).