Instead the nurse at the hospital refuses to confirm that you have every right to be there, and calls security. They come but still you think this is ridiculous, and just a bit of discussion with them will calm the whole situation down as they see reason and logic. But they don't. They arrest you, handcuff you, escort you from the building, and you get a restraining order slapped on you so you can't even visit your wife in hospital again. I'd imagine any straight person would be (rightly) outraged at such an injustice.
Think it couldn't happen? Well turn the straight wife into a gay partner and that's exactly what happened. Even thought they have a "civil union", and power of attorney to handle each others affairs, the nurse refused to acknowledge this and called security.
Roger Gorley told WDAF that even though he has power of attorney to handle his partner’s affairs, a family member asked him to leave when he visited Research Medical Center in Kansas City on Tuesday.
Gorley said he refused to leave his partner Allen’s bedside, and that’s when security put him in handcuffs and escorted him from the building.
“I was not recognized as being the husband, I wasn’t recognized as being the partner,” Gorley explained.
He said the nurse refused to confirm that the couple shared power of attorney and made medical decision for each other.
“She didn’t even bother to look it up, to check in to it,” the Lee’s Summit resident recalled. moreThere really is a big difference between a civil union and marriage. Nobody in the straight married world could ever imagine such treatment.
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