Posted on 08/25/2014 2:30:07 AM PDT by Olog-hai
When Niki Quasney felt a piercing pain in her ribcage in March, the oncologist treating her advanced ovarian cancer told her to get to an emergency room immediately.
But instead of making the short drive to a hospital near her home in Munster, Indiana, she drove alone for more than 40 minutes to one in neighboring Illinois. Quasney said she was “terrified” her local hospital might not allow her and her partner of more than 13 years, whom she wed last year in another state, to be together if she suffered a health emergency.
Quasney and her partner, Amy Sandler, are among dozens of couples challenging Indiana’s and Wisconsin’s gay marriage bans in a case being heard Tuesday in the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago. Looming large in the case is the issue of medical emergencies faced by same-sex couples. …
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Homosexuals make up 2% of the population.
The number of homosexuals who are interested in getting married “some day” are a small subset of that number.
And the number who claim to “be married” are even smaller than that.
Such focus on 1%ers by the partisan press.
It’s not about the gay marriage, it’s about the culture.
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