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: Dispatches from the Culture Wars

Why Gay Marriage Matters. Again.

By Ed Brayton

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A woman sues a Florida hospital that refused to allow her to be at her partner's bedside while she died:

As her partner of 17 years slipped into a coma, Janice Langbehn pleaded with doctors and anyone who would listen to let her into the woman's hospital room.

Eight anguishing hours passed before Langbehn would be allowed into Jackson Memorial Hospital's Ryder Trauma Center. By then, she could only say her final farewell as a priest performed the last rites on 39-year-old Lisa Marie Pond.

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Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on February 17, 2009 (boomark / email).

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