Obama finally makes a good decision.

Washington (CNN) -- President Obama has asked the Department of Health and Human Services to establish a rule that would prevent hospitals from denying visitation privileges to gay and lesbian partners.
The president's Thursday memo said, "There are few moments in our lives that call for greater compassion and companionship than when a loved one is admitted to the hospital. ... Yet every day, all across America, patients are denied the kindnesses and caring of a loved one at their sides."
Gay and lesbian Americans are "uniquely affected" by relatives-only policies at hospitals, Obama said, adding that they "are often barred from the bedsides of the partners with whom they may have spent decades of their lives -- unable to be there for the person they love, and unable to act as a legal surrogate if their partner is incapacitated."

This is something that seems so obvious, it's hard to even comment. To think that human beings, in a committed, long term relationship could be denied hospital visitation rights, simply because they're gay, doesn't just seem discriminatory, it seems seems illogical. Gay rights is something I just don't understand. Who cares that much? Does it really put that much of a strain on someone to allow same sex marriage or hospital visitation rights? If your preacher hates gays, it doesn't mean you have to hate them. They don't rub their gay on you...unless you ask. Wouldn't it seem more fair to allow them the experience of misery like the rest of married people. It's like the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960's. Blatantly denying someone his/her God-given equal rights because the color of his/her skin is different is beyond my simple southern comprehension. I just don't know why we can't all get along. Take me for example, today, I'll be dividing my time between giving "Stanky Legg" and "Booty Dew" lessons at Freak Nik, and reading short stories at "Outwrite" bookstore in Midtown. I'm so diverse, I'm like a San Francisco Democrat. It sucks to be evolved so far beyond your contemporaries sometimes. It's just one of the many crosses I have to bear. Geez...add another to the list.