Just had to share this ...

[apocalypsos]

... because it's a disgusting thing to do. (What's being proposed, not what crimsonspin's very cool daughter and her friends are going to do.)

crimsonspin wrote: So, at my daughter's high school, there's all this talk that on April 29th -- (National Gay Day, fyi) -- kids should wear black or white to show their opposition to homosexuality.

My quite straight daughter and her friends, however, are wearing all the rainbow ribbons and shirts etc. they can to show their support for National Gay Day--the right of individuality.

Things like this and that stupid Minnesota almost-law where doctors can go "Sorry, I don't treat gay people" or "Sorry, I don't treat [insert religion here]" just piss me right the fuck off. What the hell is wrong with people? Is being accepting and respectful really that fucking difficult? *seethes*

And on a personal note, that Minnesota almost-law scares me a little. I mean, I have a goddamn pentacle tattooed on my shoulder. It's really nice to know that if it passes and I ever get brought into an emergency room there unconscious for some reason, and while I'm out of it, some belligerent doctor gets the wrong idea when he sees it and says, "I'm not treating her, she's a Satanist," that'll be okay.

Well, if anybody's looking for where Hippocrates is buried, look for the epicenter of the next earthquake, dig six feet down, and make sure not to touch the rotisserie you find in the hole. Jesus.

EDIT: Ooops, that should be Michigan. And I guess that doesn't count for emergency care, but it shouldn't count for any care, damn it.

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[http://users.livejournal.com/_inbetween_/]

america is scary :(

[carolinecrane.livejournal.com]

Just as a point of clarification, it's Michigan where that disgusting business is happening, not Minnesota. I only feel the need to defend Minnesota's honor because I went to college there and I'm pretty sure they wouldn't pull crap like this. Of course, I never thought I'd see the day when the federal government started sanctioning discrimination again, so obviously I've been wrong before.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Oops, my bad. See what happens when I get pissed?

[errantman.livejournal.com]

another clarification, Emergency care is prohibited from descrimination. It's the rest of the medical body where it's allowed, but most doctors probably wouldn't care anyway, simply because it's a paycheck, and they need patients. If you went into the ER, they'd treat you.

[etoilepb.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that.

I do find myself wondering, though, about medical professionals. Do they actually feel enough bound by their oaths and their familiarity with the fact that inside, all human bodies are the same not to be asswipes about it? I certainly hope most of them do. Most of the ones I know do, but then again they don't live in Michigan.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Ah. It's still creepy, in any event.

This guy's a doctor.

[thenetwork.livejournal.com]

Torn


There was the knife and the broken syringe
then the needle in my hand, the Tru-Cut
followed by the night-blue suture.

The wall behind registration listed a man
with his face open. Through the glass doors,
I saw the sky going blue to black as it had

24 hours earlier when I last stood there gazing off
into space, into the nothingness of that town.
Bat to the head. Knife to the face. They tore

down the boy in an alleyway, the broken syringe
skittering across the sidewalk. No concussion.
But the face torn open, the blood congealed

and crusted along his cheek. Stitch up the faggot
in bed 6 is all the ER doctor had said.
Queasy from the lack of sleep, I steadied

my hands as best I could after cleaning up
the dried blood. There was the needle
and the night-blue suture trailing behind it.

There was the flesh torn and the skin open.
I sat there and threw stitch after stitch
trying to put him back together again.

When the tears ran down his face,
I prayed it was a result of my work
and not the work of the men in the alley.

Even though I knew there were others to be seen,
I sat there and slowly threw each stitch.
There were always others to be seen. There was

always the bat and the knife. I said nothing,
and the tears kept welling in his eyes.
And even though I was told to be "quick and dirty,"

told to spend less than 20 minutes, I sat there
for over an hour closing the wound so that each edge
met its opposing match. I wanted him

to be beautiful again. Stitch up the faggot in bed 6.
Each suture thrown reminded me I would never be safe
in that town. There would always be the bat

and the knife, always a fool willing to tear me open
to see the dirty faggot inside. And when they
came in drunk or high with their own wounds,

when they bragged about their scuffles with the knife
and that other world of men, I sat there and sutured.
I sat there like an old woman and sewed them up.

Stitch after stitch, the slender exactness of my fingers
attempted perfection. I sat there and sewed them up.

-- C. Dale Young

[topaz08.livejournal.com]

Where in the hell in Michigan is this going on???? And howinthehell did I miss it . . .

[bibliotech.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Saw this. Was ill. Fucking world...

[teenygozer.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. I suppose it never occurred to these politicians that god-fearin' Christian doctors might extend their distaste for treating Those Whom God Hates to adulterers? Because it seems to me that every time I turn around, yet another politician is being outed re: keeping a mistress or two on the side.

[finnystix.livejournal.com]

I didn't know about April 29 being National Gay Day.

I'm going to look like one huge fucking rainbow that day.

[painispretty.livejournal.com]

Yet another reason that I am never, ever setting foot on American soil.

[harmonyfb.livejournal.com]

Hey, now, we're not all asshats.

[painispretty.livejournal.com]

I know, but the asshats are in charge. If you want political assassinations to take place, just let me know. *taps nose*

[taktukbrightsea.livejournal.com]

I live in Alaska, where it's safe...

Crap.

I was jesting somewhat, but DEAR LORD, what's their PROBLEM?
--
The problem with the Chrisitian Right is it's often an oxymoron.