Scott Walker wants to deny same sex couples right to hospital visits

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There is no escaping the fact that Scott Walker is an evil guy.  He is pushing the Hard Right Tea Bagger agenda to its limit by limiting pensions and busting unions, now he is going after the gays and doing it with a vengeance.

It occurs to me that there must be way of recalling this man, because if not the people of Wisconsin are stuck with this monster for the next several years.  Of course, he does have his supporters, otherwise he would never have been elected.

Read the raw story about his latest plan to destroy the right of others:

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker (R) this week asked a judge if the state may stop defending a law that gives citizens in same sex relationships the right to visit their partner if they’re in a hospital.

Passed by Democrats in 2009, the state’s domestic partnership registry was meant to give same sex couples more rights. While it succeeded in doing so, rights for domestic partners in Wisconsin do not rise to the level of special rights granted by marriage.

It allows anyone to register a domestic partner with the state, who can then visit them in the hospital, make key end-of-life decisions and inherit property in the event of one partner’s death.

Gov. Walker contends that this is unconstitutional. According to a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel examination of the governor’s legal brief, he claims that allowing partners these basic rights does not serve “the public interest,” insisting that the state should not have to pay attorneys to defend it.

The registry’s very existence is currently being challenged by a lawsuit from Wisconsin Family Action (WFA), an anti-gay conservative group. The current suit is actually the second brought by WFA: their first was shot down by the state’s supreme court, which declined to even hear the argument.

A slim majority of the state’s voters approved a constitutional amendment in 2006 that banned not only same sex marriage, but also any “legal status identical or substantially similar to marriage.”

The Sentinel noted that about 1,500 domestic partnerships have been registered state-wide.

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12 years ago

I thought I read he’d died…or is this another Scott Walker?

If so he clearly can’t sing like the late Scott Walker so who gives a shit what he says?

Learn to sing you dick…;-)

lazersedge
12 years ago

The best part of Walker was left on his parent’s sheets, car seats, or where ever.

12 years ago

Oh yes, how dare people have a chance to see their loved ones at one of their greatest times of need. If people go against god then we should make sure their lives are hell every day just like their afterlife will be. *Sarcasm mode off* This is sick and shows a level of hate for others that I cannot comprehend. Are they truly this miserable with their lives that they need to make sure others are as well?

Eddie
12 years ago

If the basis that it does not serve the public interest, you should also give up your position, Mr (gag) Walker.

Jess
12 years ago

So we should expect the fright wing to be up in arms since he won’t be defending this, the way PO has said not to defend DOMA in court in about 3..2..1. Ah hell, I’ll go in the corner and kick my own ass for being so stupid. Wait though, didn’t PO sign something just recently about LGBT visitation, I think he did, so Scotty just blew it yet again didn’t he? Republicans creatin jobs one lawyer at a time it seems for not all the right reasons.

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