One Drop

didn’t realize it at the time, but apparently the father is actually a 14 year old.

Apparently, the 13 year old assumed he was the dad, because he was the ‘only’ boy the girl had dated and they had been dating for two years. All the while the girl had slept with at least six other boys?

This whole story disturbs me on so many levels.

I want to read this study. I don’t think I’ve ever heard of a representative sample that totaled 34,000. Typically studies cover 800-1,500 people. Anything more than that is supposed to be just asinine. But 34,000? Fair to say, that they got pretty good results if its truly representative. 

(On a side note, even though this isn’t exactly news it should be useful in getting schools to pay attention to sexual minorities and maybe even shut up some idiotic state senators/congresswomen) 

Edit: Well now I’m not so excited. I bothered to read the memo, and well it pretty much sucks. 

http://a.abcnews.com/images/Politics/2010rightspatients.mem.final.rel.pdf

Its not that the memo is bad, its just that it doesn’t do much.  All it says is that a hospital can’t discriminate based upon sexual orientation and that same sex partners that have legal documents giving them the right visitation and consultation on health matters.  But in reality, if you have those legal documents you shouldn’t ever be denied access. Thats not to say it doesn’t happen, because it does but this probably won’t make bigoted or ignorant hospital workers any less bigoted or ignorant.  

What this memo does not do, is give all same sex partners the power of attorney. Unfortunately,  same sex partners that do not take the time and do not spend the money to get the legal documents can still be denied access.  

As such, I’ll put this next to Obamas other token efforts to help the Gay and Lesbian community, such as the inclusive easter egg hunt and the Hate Crime legislation.  

Meanwhile, he has ‘comissioned’ another study on DADT a whopping 60 years after the first one. I wonder how many more dozens of studies will be needed to show that gay and lesbian soldiers don’t hurt military readiness.  

Edit again: 

I tried to look into this a little deeper. One thing I’m not sure of if there are states that outright deny same sex couples the right to seek the legal forms. I don’t think this is the case. I know states governors have vetoed legislation that would guarantee the right to visitation, medical decisions ,and funeral arrangements but I’m under the impression its possible to ensure that one has these ‘rights’ through proper legal documentation.  

Heres an interesting link as well on this subject.

http://www.hrc.org/documents/hospital_visitation_laws.pdf