Stand Up for Equality Today
- Right to make health care decision for partner
- Right to visit partner in hospital
- Right to sue for wrongful death
- Right to consent or refuse autopsy of partner’s body
- Right to be buried in cemetery plot with partner
- Right to make funeral arrangements for partner
- Right to inherit deceased partner’s estate
- Right to visit in long-term care facility
- Automatic “authorized driver” on partner’s car rental
- Right to coverage on partner’s insurance plan
- Protection of home in the case of partner’s bankruptcy
- Private conversations are protected in court
- Right to access partner’s death certificate
- Right to personal effects from deceased partner’s body
These are just a few of the rights that couples will get when the Oregon Domestic Partnership bill is enacted. The bill was supposed to take effect at the beginning of 2008 – but a small close-minded special interest group pushed for and received a delay in this actually occurring.
Today at 5:30 pm men and women, gay and straight, married and single, atheists and Christians, old and young; will gather in Terry Schrunk Plaza (SW 3rd and Madison) for the Rally to Defend Equality in Portland.
Even if you don’t think that this personally affects you – it’s important to stand up for what’s right.
Hell ya, this is on my busline. I will be there!
I hate all bigots.
pun intended
Make sure to add that they special interest-ers are NOT Oregonians. That just adds insult to injury if you ask me.
I will be there shouting as loud as possible and looking for Brewcaster. (:
I support this cause. Can’t attend, but definately support.
Oh yes, I’ll be there, loud and clear.
wish i could have been there- more power to us, all of us
I wonder how long it will be before ‘civil union’ benefits are extended to those whose partners are not US nationals (i.e. green cards and visa issues)
I wonder how long it will be before ‘civil union’ benefits are extended to those whose partners are not US nationals (i.e. green cards and visa issues)