Heartaching Outrage...That Happens in America

[elrhiarhodan]

I saw this last night - apparently if you're gay and you're old, you have NO FUCKING RIGHTS IN SONOMA COUNTY.

This is one of the most heartbreaking news stories I've read in a long, long time. 

(Summary of story ganked from gyzym 's post)

Clay and Howard, 77 and 88 respectively, lived in Sonoma County. They'd been together for 20 years. When Howard fell down the stairs, the county separated them, putting them each in different nursing homes against their will. AND they sold their house and their belongings without permission! BECAUSE APPARENTLY CLAY AND HOWARD ARE NOT PEOPLE, JUST GAYS.

Please follow the link above to copperbadge 's post and both sign the petition and send a letter to the New York Times.  Straight or gay or whatever, this is about YOUR MOST BASIC CIVIL AND HUMAN RIGHTS.  Do nothing, and the same things will happen to you.

Also, please tweet this if you're on Twitter, post it on Facebook and every other social media site you play on.  Repost this on your Journal here throughout the day - as it rolls down everyone's Flist, it needs to reappear at the top.  Feel free to copy this entire entry if you want.

Remember this...

"THEY CAME FIRST for the Communists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.

THEN THEY CAME for the Jews,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.

THEN THEY CAME for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.

THEN THEY CAME for the Catholics,
and I didn’t speak up because I was a Protestant.

THEN THEY CAME for me
and by that time no one was left to speak up."

(attrib. to Martin Niemöller, circa 1955)