What the hell? It’s Friday afternoon.
THE GOP VERSUS GAY COUPLES: Here’s a sad sign of the level of animosity toward gay couples now in the mainstream of the Republican party. Governor Ehrlich of Maryland will veto a very modest bill that would allow a few measures to help gay couples to have a modicum of protection in some circumstances:
Among the rights: to be treated as an immediate family member during hospital visits, to make health care decisions for incapacitated partners and to make private visits in nursing homes.
That’s too much for today’s GOP. We are beginning to see that their real issue has nothing to do with civil marriage. Their issue is the existence of gay people – and especially the existence of stable gay couples. They have to attack these relationships at all costs if they are to maintain the stigmatization of homosexuality. Even if they have to pass extreme amendments as in Nebraska and Michigan.
The Dish 