Gay Rights are Civil Rights - Just see what happens when they are denied


	Gay Rights are Civil Rights - Just see what happens when they are denied

iulawboy

7-17-2008 8:35 PM

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gay rights, florida, lambda legal, lambda legal defense, dade county medical examiner, miami, jackson memorial hospital

iulawboy says:

I wish it was hard to imagine that these people were put through this hell by people who clearly did not view them as human.

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