gay rights stuff

[rm]

More baby steps forward that highlight our barbarism:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/05/24/gay.diplomats.benefits/index.html

How is this shit even a question?

Meanwhile, common sense from the Church of Scotland:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/05/24/scotland.church.gay.minister/index.html

Finally, California, Tuesday....

Comments

[jendaby.livejournal.com]

They aren't currently even eligible for emergency evacuation? That's horrid!!!

[dichroic.livejournal.com]

They probably do get evacuation in cases of widespread emergency like earthquake or volcano - I think the State Dept does that for all American citizens. However, in countries without medical care up to US standards, medical insurance seems to include evac to somewhere with better facilities. For instance, during the SARS epidemic, I remember someone living in China wrote that if her family caught it, they could be evacuated to Hong Kong for care.

Still pretty horrid, though.