I am an extremely liberal individual at times. I am not speaking of liberal in the sense of the statist Democrat party verses the statist Republicans. I have liberal stances on many things. This however is not something that I feel belongs in the political arena. If one is liberal or conservative that is fine, it can be a person’s choice.
Homosexuality should not be a matter of legislation neither should marriage. The state should have any say in any marriage. This would mean no tax laws regarding marriage, no marriage license and no divorce by the state. Marriage should be between the two individuals. They for many the concept of marriage is a religious one. Some people feel church; God or Allah should be at the center of a marriage they should do this freely. Churches that have a stance on this should be free to follow their religion.
The government uses marriage as a way to find individuals who are not married and tax them more than other individuals. The state and insurance companies give benefits according to marriages. This can often lead to marriages for the sake of the benefits, which in turn leads to higher divorce rates. How does the state find a way to excuse regulation of our private relationships? If a man and a woman wish to have a romantic relationship and a commitment before their God how can a state justify regulation of this relationship? How does the state justify regulation between a man and a man or a woman and a woman?
I do not think this needs much more explanation. The state should have no say record or involvement with our relationships. Marriage should not be a political or legal concern.
YEAR’S END PACKS HOSPITALS; SIMI, T.O. WARDS JUGGLING INCREASED DEMAND FOR CARE.(News)(Statistical Data Included)
Daily News (Los Angeles, CA) December 19, 1997 Byline: Michael Coit Daily News Staff Writer The hospitals serving Simi Valley and Thousand Oaks are packed with patients with the onset of winter illnesses and a year-end crush of elective procedures, requiring staffing increases and raising the prospect of diversions, officials said.
“As soon as there’s a patient discharged, there’s a patient waiting for the bed,” said JoLynn de la Torre, spokeswoman for Simi Valley Hospital. here los robles hospital
On Thursday, all medical and surgical beds were full at both Simi Valley Hospital and Los Robles Hospital/Medical Center.
Los Robles is the larger of the two, with 185 beds for acute medical and surgical patients, which make up most of a hospital’s admissions. Simi Valley Hospital has 104 such beds.
The space crunch is not expected to ease much until the new year at Los Robles. Simi Valley Hospital officials said their patient trend has been developing throughout this year.
“We are prepared for it. We staff according to the illnesses our patients have,” said Kris Carraway-Bowman, Los Robles spokeswoman.
This time of year, there are more seniors with influenza admitted to prevent more serious illness, weather-related accident victims, and people seeking elective procedures to take advantage of having paid health insurance deductibles throughout the year, officials explained.
To ease the crunch, Los Robles has been busy rescheduling elective surgical procedures.
“We’ve been full one day. It changes daily,” Carraway-Bowman said.
Yet hospitals can plan only so much and some units will get full.
“It depends on what kind of patient you get in the door,” de la Torre said.
Both hospitals, for instance, reported that all intensive care and cardiac care beds were full Thursday. If a doctor seeks to admit a patient to one of those units when full, patients will be diverted to a hospital with space, officials explained.
Demand for hospital services was an issue once regulated by the state through mandated Certificate of Needs reports. The reporting requirement mostly was used to prevent a glut of services, and it was ended a decade ago leaving the availability of hospital services to be driven by the marketplace, said Lana Pimbley, district manager for the state Department of Health Licensing and Certification Program office serving Ventura, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Kern counties.
“The facility itself determines its size, and of course a facility cannot admit more patients than it is licensed to admit and they must give the care the patient needs,” Pimbley said. “If they couldn’t safely give the care to the patient who needs it, then that would be far worse.” Hospitals still conduct daily patient counts to determine staffing needs.
Simi Valley Hospital’s counts have been rising throughout the year with no ready explanation, de la Torre said. web site los robles hospital
“We have experienced the highest continuous inpatient census for 1997 that we ever have,” she said. “We didn’t know if it was going to last, but it continued and continued and they did start hiring more full-time nursing positions.” Los Robles Hospital/Medical Center plans to open a new facility in the former Charter Hospital building in Westlake Village next month, which will add 71 beds for transitional care, acute rehabilitation and its geriatric psychiatry program. That will produce a net gain of 28 beds at the hospital, Carraway-Bowman said.
“That’s why we’re opening up the east campus, because there is a need here,” she said.
The need for medical services was at the root of public criticism when Columbia/HCA Healthcare Corp. closed Westlake Hospital last year after purchasing the 60-bed facility.
The closure triggered an option held by Salick Health Care Inc. to buy the facility. In August, Columbia/HCA Healthcare Corp. bought back the former hospital from an English pharmaceutical company that purchased Salick, Carraway-Bowman said.
“We’re evaluating what to put there now,” she said. “We’re under constant evaluation as to how we can best serve the growing needs of the community.”
Some issues I take a stance on that may not be a pro or con. I am neither pro-choice nor pro-life in the abortion debate. It seems that debate is too complex to take a stance on either way. The religious right would say that I am pro-choice in my personal views and the far left would say that I am with the pro-life camp. I do however believe that it is not an issue for the federal government. That is my only official stance on the subject. I do not believe the Federal government can make those decisions for us. I am not writing about abortion however. I am focusing on homosexuality and marriage.
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well, A fifth state, passed an amendment reserving the right to define marriage for the state Legislature
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well, A fifth state, passed an amendment reserving the right to define marriage for the state Legislature
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agreed
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agreed
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I think you have a good point – however I don’t believe that marriage should be an entirely religious thing either. The reality is that this is a relationship fundamentally between TWO people – if they want to bring god in as a player in the relationship, that’s their choice, but there are plenty of couples who have differing religious beliefs, or none (as is the case in my own relationship). How then do they orchestrate their marriage? I’m not saying that a relationship can’t in practice be essentially a married one without the ceremony, but there is something to be said for the officialness that recognition either from the church or the government brings. I really feel that the murky ground between whether it’s a religious or legal contract should be clarified by picking one or the other, and as not everyone has the religious affiliation that would permit the marriage, the only course left (currently existing) is the government. But, as you say, the state really should have no say in our personal relationships, and therefore should allow anyone who wants to form a union that right. I agree that divorce is indeed a big problem, but I feel that that often has more to do with naivety than anything else. They enter into a relationship thinking that everything is going to be happy and easy forever, and that both partners will remain the same (or change in the way they want to) rather than face the reality that there are going to be plenty of tough times, that there will be points when they drive each other crazy. I really doubt that state benefits have much to do with most people’s decision to get married.