Wisconsin's Gov. Scott Walker: No Hospital Visitation for Gays

While conservative Christians always claim that they hold no hatred in their hearts towards LGBT Americans, their actions - and those of their political puppets - tell a far different story. That story reveals a deliberate on vicious agenda to dehumanize LGBT citizens and make our lives as much of a living Hell as possible. Like just about every thing that comes out of the mouths of conservative Christians, their claimed "love" for LGBT individuals is a lie. The state of Wisconsin provides a picture window view of the real "Christian" agenda as Wisconsin Family Action pushes a lawsuit to repeal a 2009 measure that allowed same sex couples to have hospital visitation privileges for one another. The loving Christians at Wisconsin Family Action claim that the visitation privileges violate an amendment to the state constitution that bans same-sex marriages or similar legal agreements. The goal, of course, is to treat same sex couples with less dignity than one has towards one's pet in a veterinarian hospital. Union busting, middle class hating Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker (pictured above) and his GOP attorney general are refusing to defend the state law in favor of same sex couples. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer has details. Here are highlights:
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Gov. Scott Walker wants Wisconsin to abandon legal defense of a new state law that gives same-sex couples the right to visit partners who are hospitalized. A Democratic-controlled Legislature, in 2009, approved a new law in which same-sex couples can sign domestic partnership registries with county clerks “to secure some — but not all — of the rights afforded married couples,” the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reported.
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The law has been challenged by an anti-gay rights group, Wisconsin Family Action, saying the visitation privileges violate an amendment to the state constitution that bans same-sex marriages or similar legal agreements. Republican State Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen has refused to defend the law, saying he believes the registration procedure violates Wisconsin’s constitution.
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“Governor Walker, in deference to the legal opinion of the attorney general that the domestic partner registry . . . is unconstitutional, does not believe the public interest requires a continued defense of this law,” says a brief from Walker, filed by his counsel Brian Hagedorn.
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“Hagedorn told Dane County Circuit Judge Daniel Moeser that if he could not withdraw from the case, he would like to amend earlier filings to reflect Walker’s belief that the registries conflict with the state constitution,” the Journal-Sentinel reported.
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When Walker took office in January, he fired an attorney retained by outgoing Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle to defend the law. A gay rights group called Fair Wisconsin will continue to defend the 2009 law.
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Increasingly, Christianity is a source of hate and prejudice. Yes, there are "good Christians" but they largely stay sitting on their hands too afraid to challenge the hate merchants head on. By their silence, I believe, they are hastening the death of Christianity - which is a good thing if the haters are going to be allowed to define that faith tradition.