The following comes from an Oct. 7 posting on SFGate.com.
Health care providers across the state will be required to receive expanded training to better understand and accommodate the needs of LGBT individuals under a new bill that has become law.
Authored by state Assemblyman Richard Gordon, D-Menlo Park, Assembly Bill 496 requires health care providers to include LGBT-specific issues in the cultural competency training their workers receive. Gov. Jerry Brown recently signed the bill into law, along with another piece of legislation authored by Gordon, Assembly Bill 1678, which requires public utilities to implement a program that encourages soliciting bids from LGBT-owned businesses when purchasing goods or services.
AB 496 aims to address inequities in medical treatment for LGBT patients due to a lack of provider understanding of certain issues affecting the community.
Gordon said that as a result, LGBT community members can have a variety of negative experiences with health care practitioners. Some examples include lesbian couples who have been unable to find OB-GYN doctors willing to discuss in vitro fertilization options with them, and gays and lesbians who haven’t been treated with respect by hospital staff while visiting their hospitalized life partners, Gordon said.
Gay-rights activist Jason Galisatus applauded the new law, noting that the Peninsula is home to many LGBT senior citizens. He said it’s common for gay seniors in certain cases to “go back into the closet” when dealing with hospital staff, and that can affect the quality of the care they receive. Galisatus, who was instrumental in creating San Mateo County’s recently formed LGBT commission, said that as a gay man, he’d like to be able to discuss pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) — a drug designed to prevent the transmission of HIV — with his doctor, and believes cultural competency training would ensure that doctors are better able to offer advice about such medications.
He added that because gay men, transgender people and people of color have higher rates of HIV infection, it’s especially important that they feel safe communicating with doctors about their medical histories and risk factors.
While the new health care law extends to LGBT patients accommodations that already existed for members of racial and ethnic minority groups, AB 1678 similarly extends to LGBT contractors certain protections that already applied to businesses owned by women, people of color and veterans. Under the new law, public utilities are required to include LGBT-owned businesses in the same outreach efforts they conduct when soliciting bids from minority, women and veteran-owned businesses. The California Public Utilities Commission releases annual reports disclosing the number of letters sent out to solicit bids from contractors in those groups, as well as the number of purchases and jobs awarded to those contractors, Gordon noted. However, the new law does not guarantee that contracts will be awarded to LGBT-owned businesses, and contractors who submit the lowest credible bids are still the most likely to win a utility’s business, he added.
“All this law does is put LGBT contractors at the table so they have a chance to win,” Gordon said.
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The new declarations of the Rome Synod of Bishop on the contributions of Gays to the Church are not helpful. It was the pedophile Gay priest Homoheresy mafia that brought the Church to the lowly place where it is now. Dark days ahead of US. Thank you Papa Francisco, Catholics are now the Anglicans of the future but with less courage. I know, I know it is the will of our new Argentinian Pope and there is nothing we can do.
Girarias,
Even an elected Pope CANNOT go against Sacred Tradition!
May God have mercy on an amoral Amerika and His Church!
Viva Cristo Rey!
Yours in Their Hearts,
Kenneth M. Fisher
CCC: ” 2376 Techniques that entail the dissociation of husband and wife, by the intrusion of a person other than the couple (donation of sperm or ovum, surrogate uterus), are gravely immoral.
These techniques (heterologous artificial insemination and fertilization) infringe the child’s right to be born of a father and mother known to him and bound to each other by marriage.
They betray the spouses’ “right to become a father and a mother only through each other. ”
Because of the evil within the Church by some high ranking clergy (as evidenced at the “SinNod”, make certain that you have a Catholic Bible, and the “Catechism of the Catholic Church, Second Edition”. And read them at home.
When you VOTE for immoral politicians, you get what you deserve.
ALL CA Bishops need to speak openly and actively about the Intrinsic Evils of:
Abortion, Euthanasia, Homosexual Marriage, Embryonic Stem Cell Research, and Cloning. Everything else will fall into place if they do their jobs.
Bishops need to teach, correct, and when necessary publically discipline those Catholics who publically create Scandal.
Instead we get many (but NOT all) Bishops who are married to the money of the Federal Government through Grants in the millions of dollars.
So their loyalty is to those in power.
Look at the Diocese bureaucracies they have created that can be found on their own Diocese web sites – this is what they promote, rather than reading the Bible and the CCC.
They teach their own brand of ‘politics’ rather than only the Faith accurately.
Maddie,
You comment was right on target. America is under judgement for it’s justification of immoral laws. The decline of America is unspeakable, so much pain because we are not being a Nation under God. America got what it deserved when the majority voted for this president. He put our souls in danger, he put our families in danger, he put the nation in destruction mode. Sounds like the way evil works destroy everything under the cover of goodness and change. Our Catholic Bishops need to be stronger and more watchful than ever. Speak out and give the people courage, the will to fight for what is good and holy! Bishops stand up and lead we are waiting for you, we will follow you.
Sharon,
It is almost certain that most of the bishops voted for Obama and will vote for Billary!
It is also almost a certainty that Obama DID NOT REALLY WIN either election!
May God have mercy on an amoral Amerika and His Church!
Viva Cristo Rey!
Yours in Their Hearts,
Kenneth M. Fisher
Prepare to enter the catacombs, true Catholics. We are being marginalized gradually by the Government, the homo-nazi movement and by the heirarchy of our Church, even at the highest level. Witness the case in Houston TX, where the lesbian mayor has threatened 5 protestant ministers with jail if they do not turn over their sermon notes regarding homosexual sin to her. Holy Mary, pray for us.
To what extent will they force this evil on us? Catacomb churches yes and martyrs. Pray without ceasing. Pray for our bishops and priests
Unfortunately, there is no way that we can have a recall vote to replace a pope who appears to have many views that are contrary to those of us who love and obey the traditional Church, the Magisterium and the Bible. I won’t be giving much to the Peter’s Pence collection. Pray the Rosary for Church.
“It’s all about the children.” Really? Are the best interests of the children the major consideration here? Doesn’t appear to be so, does it?
None of these lawmakers are properly brought up and trained, in our Nation’s true Judeo-Christian religious and moral heritage, the backbone of our country! They are IGNORANT and should NOT be elected! No– schools of medicine should NOT be demanded of, to teach and indoctrinate students, in catering to the whims of immoral American subcultures! Instead– their students all should be trained, in TEACHING AND MAINTAINING HIGH MORAL STANDARDS, in their medical practices! There should be a national medical code of ethics, and national laws too, AGAINST catering to the ignorant and the immoral! Go teach the ignorant to live a proper, healthy life, and abstain from doing what is wrong and unhealthy! Tell the ignorant lesbian couple “NO,” at the OB-GYN in-vitro fertilization clinic! (In-vitro fertilization is also WRONG!) Tell the gay man seeking ways to have sex perversions with a partner(s) and avoid AIDS, “NO! You MUST be CELIBATE! Because it is MORALLY RIGHT, and PROPER FOR HEATH! NO SEX PERVERSIONS!” Have the GUTS to go in, and re-direct ignorant, immoral people, to lead good, healthy, morally-excellent lives! That is a BIG RESPONSIBILITY!! This kind of work needs to also be done, in developing countries, such as countries of Africa, where AIDS originated!
And those African nations who are sticking more closely to Judeo Christian teaching on sexuality and marriage do not have as much AIDS and other such diseases.
And those nations resent this country’s administration going into their countries and telling them what to do.
Correction to my first line in last post: “resent” not “recent”.
Linda Marie,
You don’t really expect the majority of our “bishops” to push something so common sensical as what you proposed above do you? They would have to be actually Catholic to do that!
May God have mercy on an amoral Amerika and His Church!
Viva Cristo Rey!
Yours in Their Hearts,
Kenneth M. Fisher
Isn’t it interesting that after the LGBT Community calls pro lifers, including some pro life physicians, all kinds of names because they say acts of sodomy are dangerous, and have tried to make the lives of pro lifers so miserable, now they want the help of good physicians. It is similar to when Bill and Hillary Clinton wanted to find the best heart surgeon for Bill Clinton’s surgery. They went and sought the advice of a pro life senator who was a heart surgeon to find out what doctor they should choose. It seems they did not trust the pro abortion ones too much if you ask me. As one man said, “If a doctor will take money to kill a child in the womb, when you are old and no longer useful to society, he will take money to kill you,” and it is already happening with euthanasia.
They should have listened to Surgeon General Koop when he was alive. He was pro life and an excellent specialist. More of them would still be alive today. He told them flat out that the anal passage was not meant for marital relations and why.
“Pre- Exposure Prophylaxis” – is right in line with Hollyweird and its approach to making ‘save & available’ all sorts of intrinsic evils, which are also marketed to captive audiences of kids – and make great X-Mas ‘stocking stuffers’ too:
SEE
Kranking Up Profits
Shouldn’t we be approving of the way theta toy makers now teach how to provide safe and effective ‘Protection’ for the Meth Makers too- in the form of toys for ‘action figures’ containing coveralls, face shields & respirators – as inspiration for those wanting to pump out crank in a personally (if not environmentally) safe manner?
Gosh – the Condom makers could learn a thing or two, and even include a set in their ‘GI Joe’ Kits for the new Homo-Anal Coprohile ‘tolerance’ pogroms the Abomination os pushing.
https://cnsnews.com/mrctv-blog/katherine-rodriguez/toys-r-us-selling-breaking-bad-figures-pr-decision-gone-wrong