Sonoma County CA Separates Elderly Gay Couple & Sells All Their Possessions

[christie]

Originally Posted by Miss Scarlett

Kobi, I have to disagree with you. I've been in law for nearly as long as you have been in medicine. People most certainly can be involuntarily committed into medical facilities including nursing homes. In NC a court action is filed either for Adult Protective Services or Incompetency. We do numerous cases like this each month - my boss represents our county's DSS in APS, CPS and CSE cases. These cases can be filed and adjudicated in a matter of weeks. Anyone can file one of these cases, not just DSS.

Here is the link to the Complaint filed by Clay Greene's attorneys - please take the time to read this. I think it will give everyone a better understanding of what happened and fill in the gaps in the news story I posted in my OP.

http://www.nclrights.org/site/DocSer...pdf?docID=7461

Just because you have all the right documents doesn't mean some narrowminded and/or ignorant person/institution will honor them.

Remember the lesbian couple from Washington who were in Florida for the Rosie Cruise?

http://www.lambdalegal.org/in-court/...-memorial.html

Here is the link to the Amended Complaint filed in that matter:

http://data.lambdalegal.org/in-court...nt-amended.pdf

Sadly the Federal Court granted the Defendant's Motion and dismissed the action.

We must continue to fight for our equality!

Wow. If you go to page 66 of the first link, the letter to the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors detailing this ordeal is just heartbreaking. I do think that this is a valid story.

I think that part of our wanting to believe that it isnt a full disclosure of the facts is more about us wanting to think that it couldnt happen to us.

Unfortunately, IMO, it can.

[Apocalipstic]

Originally Posted by christie0918

Wow. If you go to page 66 of the first link, the letter to the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors detailing this ordeal is just heartbreaking. I do think that this is a valid story.

I think that part of our wanting to believe that it isnt a full disclosure of the facts is more about us wanting to think that it couldnt happen to us.

Unfortunately, IMO, it can.

Yeah, I guess I have this very misguided idea of Californians being wayyy more liberal and cool about things than anyone in TN. But in Nashville I have never had a problem. I give my doctors and hospitals the forms, but they have always indicated Cynthia woudl be able to see me regardless?

Now in a rural TN area? Who knows....though, there seem to be a lot of LBGTQ people in the medical profession.

Either way, its terribly sad.