“Patrick, a resident of McHenry county, told me the horrifying story of finding his partner of many years dead of a heart attack.
“Despite their years of commitment and shared lives, the morgue refused to release his partner’s body for nearly two weeks – searching for an estranged sister to grant permission so that Patrick could give his loved one a proper burial.”
That’s the reference to McHenry County in a blog called “Shakesville: The Wave.”
McHenry County shows up on a post written by Shaker Allie Carter, Senior Field Manager for the ACLU of Illinois, in an argument for House Bill 2234, the Illinois Religious Freedom and Civil Union Act, would enable both same sex and opposite gender couples to access all the state legal rights and protections of marriage, “without the word marriage,” as the article points out.
Meanwhile, news out of Rhode Island, found this morning in the Northwest Herald, indicates this heavily Roman Catholic state will not follow in the footsteps of other New England states in approving gay marriage.
Two questions come to mind:
- To what “morgue” does the author refer?
- Is the Catholic Church active on this issue?