Posted on 08/17/2018 7:51:48 AM PDT by reaganaut1
Mary Walsh and Beverly Nance did considerable research in 2016 before deciding to move into a continuing care retirement community outside St. Louis.
They took a tour of Friendship Village Sunset Hills and were impressed by its pool and fitness center, a calendar crammed with activities, the newly built apartments for independent living. They had meals with a friend and with a former co-worker, and their spouses, all of them enthusiastic residents.
“We’d met other people from the community, and they were very friendly,” said Ms. Walsh, 72, a retired manager for AT&T. “I was feeling good about it.”
Like most C.C.R.C.s, Friendship Village — a “faith-based” but nondenominational nonprofit — includes assisted living and a nursing home on its 52-acre campus, an important consideration.
If one woman someday needed more care than the other, “we’d still be able to have dinner together,” Ms. Walsh said. “We wanted to be together, no matter what happened.”
The community seemed eager to recruit them, too, offering a lower entrance fee if they signed an agreement promptly. So they paid a $2,000 deposit on a two-bedroom unit costing $235,000.
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Advocates for L.G.B.T. seniors have argued for years that long-term care facilities fail to protect them against discrimination and harassment, leaving them particularly vulnerable.
Compared to older adults who are heterosexual, “they’re much less likely to be parents and twice as likely to be single and live alone,” said Mr. Adams of Sage.
With less help from partners or families, “they’re more likely to have to rely on professional care and services,” Mr. Adams said.
His organization has fielded thousands of complaints about long-term care from L.G.B.T. seniors: disrespect from staff members, harassment by fellow residents, religious proselytizing, refusal to recognize same-sex relationships.
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“I’m pretty sure housing discrimination against homos is against the law.”
You might be wrong. NO federal law there, and few State laws.
If they are married, where are their husbands?
Federal law prohibits housing discrimination based on sex but not on sexual orientation, so in this case it would depend on what Missouri law says.
So, no caballeros present?
black is out of your control. homo is a choice.
Not the same thing.
Yes, it seems like they were on track to move there, put their house up for sale, etc.
I do not think this is a case of a gay couple that set out to cause any problems or end up in legal battles over housing discrimination.
JMHO
If you bring the $$$, they will always let you in.
This is another Gay Mafia attack
Why can’t they just return to the Lutheran community, which was apparently prepared to welcome them?
US Civil Rights Act as amended.
A woman-woman couple less likely to be parents??
I recall something in basic biology classes about reproduction of humans ...
One must note that the constitution protects every citizen’s right to discriminate. Harassment is legal until it’s not. And it can be a subjective call.
“US Civil Rights Act as amended.”
That’s a useless statement you just made. Try citing the section.
I don’t think you’re going to find homosexuality is in there.
There’s always the isle of Lesbos.
The vast majority of people in that age range still know that homosexuality is sinful and they especially hate it when it is flaunted in front of their faces.
I’d be fine with them, as long as they were people I enjoyed being around, when the concept of sex is not relevant. Heck, I can hang around homosexuals just fine, unless they become the “flaming fag” type of person. That’s just annoying.
Here, let me help you understand what a legal citing looks like instead of you just bumping around blindly looking for something that isn’t there.
I don’t see homosexuality in there, do you?
Sec. 804. [42 U.S.C. 3604] Discrimination in sale or rental of housing and other prohibited practices
(a) To refuse to sell or rent after the making of a bona fide offer, or to refuse to negotiate for the sale or rental of, or otherwise make unavailable or deny, a dwelling to any person because of race, color, religion, sex, familial status, or national origin.
(b) To discriminate against any person in the terms, conditions, or privileges of sale or rental of a dwelling, or in the provision of services or facilities in connection therewith, because of race, color, religion, sex, familial status, or national origin.
Pretty much
you cannot help being black, unlike being a homo.
You are, of course, correct;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_the_United_States
There are 22 states that extend those protections to homos. The rest do not.
And there is no federal language that does.
Just about to post the same .
Probably where most are,Dead
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