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To: SeekAndFind

I think the patient or next of kin or whatever should decide on who can visit. Its none of the governments business.

If I want my best fishing buddy to visit that should be okay too. If they want their best fisting.... lol


2 posted on 04/18/2010 11:47:26 AM PDT by GeronL (Entitlement Zombies will become real zombies when the money runs out)
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To: GeronL
think the patient or next of kin or whatever should decide on who can visit. Its none of the governments business.

Christian Hospitals have rights to.

Your concept of non-governmental interference, if you are to be fair, has to apply to them as well.

If a Christian Hospital decides that from a Christian, biblical perspective, that a non-blood related "friend" who is homosexual, should not be considered next-of-kin from a spousal perspective, then they should have that right as well.
5 posted on 04/18/2010 11:52:43 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
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To: GeronL

“I think the patient or next of kin or whatever should decide on who can visit. Its none of the governments business.”

Couldn’t agree more!!


9 posted on 04/18/2010 11:58:33 AM PDT by aquila48
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To: GeronL

‘I think the patient or next of kin or whatever should decide on who can visit. Its none of the governments business.”

The hospital should also have a say since they have liability but otherwise I agree with you.


17 posted on 04/18/2010 12:11:38 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: GeronL

People have always been able to decide who can visit them and who cannot. Also, if it’s a case of a “partner” (I hate that term; it makes all business partners look like gays!), then they should write medical directives or name the other as their medical executors.

If the sick or injured person were straight, nobody of the opposite sex could just walk in off the street and ask to visit or even make decisions for that person, regardless of the personal relationship claimed. The same is true of gays, and there was no discrimination being practiced here.


20 posted on 04/18/2010 12:24:11 PM PDT by livius
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To: GeronL
think the patient or next of kin or whatever should decide on who can visit. Its none of the governments business. If I want my best fishing buddy to visit that should be okay too.

The problem is how does the hospital know you want him in if you are too sick or injured to tell them. OTOH, do you want your best fishing buddy deciding whether or not to put you under the knife?

42 posted on 04/21/2010 12:50:12 PM PDT by ColdWater ("The theory of evolution really has no bearing on what I'm trying to accomplish with FR anyway. ")
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