Gay couple forcibly kept separate, healthy partner forced into nursing home

Story here

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Clay and his partner of 20 years, Harold, lived in California. Clay and
Harold made diligent efforts to protect their legal rights, and had
their legal paperwork in place—wills, powers of attorney, and medical
directives, all naming each other. Harold was 88 years old and in frail
medical condition, but still living at home with Clay, 77, who was in
good health.

Sounds like those two did everything in their power to get everything squared away in case one of them got sick or died. They should have been okay, right?

Wrong.

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One evening, Harold fell down the front steps of their home and was
taken to the hospital. Based on their medical directives alone, Clay
should have been consulted in Harold’s care from the first moment.
Tragically, county and health care workers instead refused to allow
Clay to see Harold in the hospital.

WE DUN CARE HOW MANY PIECES OF PAPER YOU HAVE WE DUN LET HOMOS SEE THEIR FUCKBUDDIES!

Think this is bad already? WAIT, THERE'S MORE!

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Ignoring Clay’s significant role in Harold’s life, the county continued
to treat Harold like he had no family and went to court seeking the
power to make financial decisions on his behalf. Outrageously, the
county represented to the judge that Clay was merely Harold’s
“roommate.”

You can see where this is leading, right?

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What happened next is even more chilling: without authority, without
determining the value of Clay and Harold’s possessions accumulated over
the course of their 20 years together or making any effort to determine
which items belonged to whom, the county took everything Harold and
Clay owned and auctioned off all of their belongings. Adding further
insult to grave injury, the county removed Clay from his home and
confined him to a nursing home against his will. The county workers
then terminated Clay and Harold's lease and surrendered the home they
had shared for many years to the landlord.

WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK IS THIS I DON'T EVEN
Who the HELL thought they had the authority to confine an otherwise healthy man in a nursing home against his will after selling all his shit without even consulting him, as well as ignoring all his paperwork that stated he had a damn SAY in the treatment of his life partner?!?

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Three months after he was hospitalized, Harold died in the nursing
home. Because of the county’s actions, Clay missed the final months he
should have had with his partner of 20 years. Compounding this tragedy,
Clay has literally nothing left of the home he had shared with Harold
or the life he was living up until the day that Harold fell, because he
has been unable to recover any of his property.

This is absolutely bloody horrifying. Clay is going to sue the county according to the website, but even if he gets reimbursed for his financial losses and pain and suffering, it's not going to bring back the last three months with his partner he lost out on.

That is disgusting, absolutely disgusting. There are no words to describe how horrible this is.

"Just his rommmate"?
Fuck you Sonoma. That is low, really fucking low. And I can't believe the judge believed it even with all the paperwork.

I hope Clay sues them into oblivion.


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...I need...I just...I can't...

I need to walk away from this now. Before I go to California to kill some bitches.

OH MY GOD, I HATE YOU PEOPLE, YOU DRIVE ME INTO ALCOHOLISM

Nearly every county in California is going through hellish financial shit storms right now with falling tax revenues because of all the job losses. This is their shitty way of trying to get more money to waste on useless shit.

Anyway you look at it, it's just shit.

WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK? I keep trying to come up with something coherent, but all I'm getting is FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKK

I seriously must know what bullshit legal precedent these stupid cunts had for ignoring legal documentation, seizing and auctioning their assets, and removing the civil liberties and right to his body from Clay. Please. Someone tell me what they used to justify this so I can take it and have Edward Scissorpenis rape them and their precedent sideways and backwards, because there is no way that this was one man's smart idea or one section of the government's gross oversight. This cannot be anything else than stone cold, blatant discrimination and there will be HELL TO PAY, MOTHERFUCKER. HELL.

What the hell? Did none of these people realise that the rest of the country going to hear about this eventually (or did they think that the rest of the country would support it if they did know), or were they hoping Clay would die and not be their problem any more? Or that they'd just be able to ignore him since he was stuck in a nursing home?

Jesus. wrote:

I seriously must know what bullshit legal precedent these stupid cunts had for ignoring legal documentation, seizing and auctioning their assets, and removing the civil liberties and right to his body from Clay. Please. Someone tell me what they used to justify this so I can take it and have Edward Scissorpenis rape them and their precedent sideways and backwards, because there is no way that this was one man's smart idea or one section of the government's gross oversight. This cannot be anything else than stone cold, blatant discrimination and there will be HELL TO PAY, MOTHERFUCKER. HELL.

Easy...according to most of these cunts, gays and lesbians are second class citizens.

Stay classy, California.

Hey, Spotts, care to weigh in on the governmental aspect of this?

(Yes, I'm in reruns. Sue me.)

I have nothing but tears, man.
And I don't cry.


This is absolutely, positively fucking repulsive. Fuck. You.

What possible legal justification could there be for forcing a healthy man out of his home, seizing and selling off everything he owned, and keeping him from someone dear to him? Other than "WE HAET THE GAYZ."

Fuuuuuccccckkkkk...and California is supposed to be a liberal state.

This is why we need to legalize gay marriage.

gaijinguy wrote:

Stay classy, California.

Hey, Spotts, care to weigh in on the governmental aspect of this?

(Yes, I'm in reruns. Sue me.)

EileenK98 wrote:

What possible legal justification could there be for forcing a healthy man out of his home, seizing and selling off everything he owned, and keeping him from someone dear to him? Other than "WE HAET THE GAYZ."

Simply put, there wasn't one. The article stated that the court denied the county's motion to gain power of attorney, but did grant the county limited access to Harold's financial assets in order to pay medical bills.

Everything they did beyond that point was not authorized by that court, or any other court.

Spotts1701 wrote:

gaijinguy wrote:

Stay classy, California.

Hey, Spotts, care to weigh in on the governmental aspect of this?

(Yes, I'm in reruns. Sue me.)

EileenK98 wrote:

What possible legal justification could there be for forcing a healthy man out of his home, seizing and selling off everything he owned, and keeping him from someone dear to him? Other than "WE HAET THE GAYZ."

Simply put, there wasn't one. The article stated that the court denied the county's motion to gain power of attorney, but did grant the county limited access to Harold's financial assets in order to pay medical bills.

Everything they did beyond that point was not authorized by that court, or any other court.

So they broke the law big time?
I hope someone burns in hell.

Miss Misery wrote:

I hope Clay sues them into oblivion.


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They probably figured he's to old to put up much of a fight. I really hope they're wrong.

(This has got me seething. My cousin--one of the best people you could ever meet--and his husband live in California. This same damn thing could happen to them.)

I have little to contribute beyond GRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH.

Verandering wrote:

I have nothing but tears, man.
And I don't cry.

"He is Conan, Cimmerian. He won't cry...so I cry for him."

Lady Anne wrote:

This is why we need to legalize gay marriage.

Agreed. The current situation is a bit like the "separate but equal" racial segregation laws that used to exist.

I have nothing to add but a very frowny face and some fist shaking. I was under the impression California was one of the slightly better ones.

How the hell did something like this get out of hand when it was so clearly illegal, unethical, and damn insensitive? D:<

I think that homophobia probably had a lot to do with this, and I hope Clay sues their arse off and I hope whoever ordered these illegal actions loses their job. This is exactly the reasons why there should be gay marriage so that things like this can't happen, because nothing like this would have happened to a heterosexual couple.

God, that's a depressing story. Let's hope Clay gets the money to replace his stuff at the very least.

Ezri Dax wrote:

I hope whoever ordered these illegal actions loses their job.

Forget losing their job, I hope the people responsible go to jail for this. Jesus fucking Christ, this is so wrong. So, so wrong.

Ezri Dax wrote:

I think that homophobia probably had a lot to do with this

More like 'everything', combined with "hey, he's in a nursing home, that's as good as destroying the evidence, right?" (they're soul-sucking places, really they are).

Sutremaine wrote:

Ezri Dax wrote:

I think that homophobia probably had a lot to do with this

More like 'everything', combined with "hey, he's in a nursing home, that's as good as destroying the evidence, right?" (they're soul-sucking places, really they are).

Agreed there. If nothing else, it's likely better evidence of ageism than homophobia. "Ah, that old fart won't do anything."

But more than likely, it was greed and nothing else that fueled this. They could do it, so they did.