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1. nola bound
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   The following information is from the APSA's website. Seems like there is no legitimate reason to boycott now.

   Two recent changes have affected the Louisiana legal situation. A federal Executive Order has extended a guarantee of equal hospital visitation rights for all unmarried couples in hospitals receiving Medicare funds. Also the Louisiana Supreme Court has ruled in support of unmarried couples, regardless of sexual orientation, for contract, property, and end of life decisions.

   President Obama has issued an executive order to extend the guarantee of equal hospital visitation rights for all unmarried couples in hospitals receiving Medicare funds. The rule went into effect January 2011. According to the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force:
   "Under the regulations, hospitals may not place any restrictions on visitation based on sexual orientation. In addition, the hospitals must inform each patient of his or her right to receive visitors designated by the patient, 'including, but not limited to, a spouse, a domestic partner (including a same-sex domestic partner), another family member or a friend.' Any hospital found to violate the new rules risks losing a major source of revenue."

   The end-of-life decision-making rights do require an extra step in New Orleans as in most areas of the country. Partners must establish a medical power of attorney between unmarried heterosexual and homosexual couples. Many associations meeting in New Orleans have made these available on line to attendees as part of their convention planning, as APSA will do.

   Also in 2006 the Louisiana Supreme Court ruled that the state constitutional amendment did not affect existing rights of unmarried couples, though they did not overturn the constitutional amendment on same sex marriage. In the words of Chief Justice Calagero:
   Nothing in the majority opinion would prohibit an unmarried couple from contracting to be co-owners of property, from designating each other as agents authorized to make critical end of life decisions, or leave property to each through wills. The majority opinion does not disturb or impair the fundamental contract and property rights possessed by all individuals, be they homosexual or heterosexual, married or unmarried.

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2. Someone
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   I found it to be a pretty good overview/response.

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3. Behold crustacea!
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   Think what they do to crawdads down there! Why won't anyone please think of the crawdads?

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4. NONOLA
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   except 1) there is no individual enforcement mechanism for the hospital visitation rule so you would have to wait for Eric Holder to intercede and 2)is either a willfully ignorant or hopelessly naive position. Ask the 2 male parents in NY about the LA birth certificate of their child - in LA the parents are strangers to the child.
   Of course I realize OP is just a troll, but this assertion that everything is fine there is simply not supportable. Of course, we'll see based on attendance at APSA whether the academy supports the boycott or not. I understand Penn State U press has decided to boycott.

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5. Anon
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   If the people behind this boycott would only be less self-righteous, selective, and smug, I would be sympathetic. But why only LGTB rights? Why only target the South?

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6. Confucius say...
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   I love the assumption here that we all more or less agree with a boycott. Thank god for intellectual freedom in higher ed.

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7. anon
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   ^^Because we have limited time and resources. Pick a cause of your choosing and start a boycott/petition/freaking revolution/whatever suits your taste. NOONE (not even Mother Theresa) fights to end ALL discrimination all over the world!

   I have heard of many legit criticisms of the boycott but the "why this issue only, why this place only" is frustratingly stupid.

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8. anon
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   APSA is in NOLA in 2012, not 2011. Just saying..

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9. Confucius say...
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   ^^Nah, I'll just be a political scientist; you can be an advocate for yourself all you want.

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10. Anon
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    ^^^ Good point! I will focus on important issues instead, and ignore your petty boycott.

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11. Anon
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    Good grief. The whole "oh, but what will happen if my same-sex partner is hospitalized while we are at the conference... I won't be able to visit them" concern that was discussed in the APSA letter is so absurd.

    How many times, in the past 10 years or so, has anyone's significant other (same sex or not) been hospitalized in the APSA host city during the annual conference? Have there been huge Ebola outbreaks during APSA that I haven't heard of?

    I can understand opposing NOLA on philosophical grounds (though personally, I could care less. New Orleans is an incredible place and I'll be there for APSA and SPSA this year. But the hand wringing over hospital access by same-sex APSA partners is a bit of a stretch.

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12. anon
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    Boycotters don't like to hang out around black people. That's pretty clear.

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13. Haiku Bob
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    Why the south? Dan P.
    works at John Jay so he must
    seek spotlight elsewhere.

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14. Haiku Bob
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    Why the south? Dan P.
    works at John Jay so he must
    seek spotlight elsewhere.

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15. anon
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    "How many times, in the past 10 years or so, has anyone's significant other (same sex or not) been hospitalized in the APSA host city during the annual conference? Have there been huge Ebola outbreaks during APSA that I haven't heard of?"

    Exactly. Pretty clear that the moron who started this campaign has some ulterior motives (what they are, I don't know).

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16. huh
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    ^^
    What do you mean? Pinello wants the spotlight to be somewhere outside the South? I don't get it.

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17. herman
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    I think Haiku Bob meant that DP doesn't get much attention from the discipline at his current institution or from this research, so this is his way of seeking the disciplinary spotlight.

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18. Anon
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    The ISA, which is well to the left of APSA, met in NOLA without incident. The SPSA, which may not be, but surely includes its share of LGBT scholars, meets in NOLA EVERY YEAR and has there ever been an incident reported?

    And of course it's not going to achieve anything. Back in the day MPSA AS AN ORGANIZATION actually boycotted Chicago b/c Illinois wouldn't ratify the Equal Rights Amendment. We sure showed them!

    This whole thing is so ridiculous. It's about a handful of people in political theory who are tenured and as smug and selfish as can be in their professional lives, but like to think they are "engagé", by striking an utterly costless pose that merely flatters their vanity.

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19. EKG
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    Boycott NOLA or Occupy NOLA? First world problems. White whine.

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20. Exactly
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    ^^ Thank you. Damned straight. (Whoops--apologies for being heteronormative.)

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21. Pickle
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    Is there a list of gay friendly countries for fieldwork? I'm a comparativist who doesn't want to support oppressive regimes.

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22. Tracy Flick
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    Um, if your fieldwork supports a regime, you're probably doing it wrong.

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23. Pickle
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    Gaddafi Dissertation Improvement Grant

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24. Dan Pinello
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    "I put a lot of thought into the whole marriage issue and talked to people. Some would say, 'Civil unions, maybe. But I just can't see same-sex marriage.' Well, why? You know, the whole thing. Then when the Massachusetts court decision was rendered and that language was used ["The history of our nation has demonstrated that separate is seldom, if ever, equal."], I was like, 'Yes! That's it!'" -- Greg, a gay man in Albuquerque, NM (from Chapter 1)

    "One of the post-Hawaii lessons is that for each court case people who care about gay equality bring, we have to do the political organizing and public education at the same time. It's not just about going out and filing another lawsuit. That's not the right answer." -- Evan Wolfson, Freedom to Marry (from Chapter 2)

    "The [Massachusetts Supreme Judicial] Court was audacious to make such a radical decision [in Goodridge]. They totally ignored the rational basis for marriage with a heterosexual component, just ignoring law, precedent, history, social science, biology. For me, the audacity and the radical nature of the decision were just stunning." -- Ronald Crews, Massachusetts Family Institute (from Chapter 3)

    "Immediately after the Goodridge decision was rendered, legislators who were terrified about going to marriage, but were not bigots, were desperately trying to get us to accept civil unions. The funny thing is that legislators who were previously opposed even to domestic partnership benefits started to trip over themselves to give us civil unions. They were truly confronted with the possibility that we were going to get marriage. Yesterday, they couldn't give us domestic partnership health insurance benefits; today, 'Here, take civil unions.'" -- Arline Isaacson, Massachusetts Gay and Lesbian Political Caucus (from Chapter 3)

    "The City of San Francisco, the State of California, and the antigay groups were involved in the litigation [to nullify San Francisco's 4,037 same-sex marriages], but no one in the lawsuit represented the married couples. Our organization had tried to intervene and was denied the opportunity. We were at the California Supreme Court on the day of oral argument. They refused to let us into the courtroom and put us in a side room instead. So we watched the debate live on a big movie screen. The antigay groups got not one, but two opportunities to speak to the Court. It felt as though we had no voice, which was so disempowering and frustrating. We sat there seeing our lives debated and discussed, and there was no one, not even symbolically, representing the couples." -- Molly McKay, Marriage Equality California (from Chapter 4).

    "Legislators are the ones that are sensitively going to listen to hearings and people's response as to what their concerns are on both sides. When an activist judge drops a gavel and says, this is the way it should be, he has no clear understanding of the ramifications all the way down the board on how that's going to affect the economy, jobs, and society. So the judicial system has to be very careful to make sure that they don't preempt legislative responsibility." -- Tim Nashif, Oregon Family Council (from Chapter 7)

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25. i think he can hear you, Ray
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    not one iota of sympathy for this protest

    will hammer two beers in nola in somber dedication to all the time wasted on it

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26. really?
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    ^^
    Is Pinellio really pimping a textbook on this topic, in a thread claiming he isn't paid attention to so he does these protests so he can gain some attention?

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27. anon
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    Nobody ever accused him of not seeking enough attention, I suppose!

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28. anon
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    Funny thing about the ISA in NOLA is that some APSA boycotters attended that conference.

    I know, they can't fight em all, so it was fine to attend. It does take the air out of the symbolic gesture.

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29. Turd Jockey
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    I will hammer three beers

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30. anon
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    The "implementation" fear of the hospital visitation ruling raised above is completely unwarranted. I contacted a legal advocacy gay rights group down there over a year ago and they reported to me that the hospitals in the NOLA area weren't discriminating in the first place. Combined with this ruling, the boycott movement is really exposed now as consisting of absolutely zero substance. But they will never back down and admit that they are wrong; I am sure of that.

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