dojR001515.xml

dojR001515.xml

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2002-03-17

Sunday, March 17, 2002 5:59 PM
EQUITABLE COMPENSATION FOR GAY VICTIMS OF SEPT. 11

Why in the name of all that is true to America's spirit of equality and
justice or before the God for whom all His children are worthy of love and
respect would my federal government withhold benefits from surviving victims
of the horrific attacks of Sept. 11th solely because they happen to be gay?
Should it matter--really--whether that loved one who is about to have insult
piled upon injury lived with his dead gay partner in New York or neighboring
New Jersey? Should a child who has lost a parent be denied what Congress has
said she is entitled to simply because she has two mommies or daddies? Why
doesn't the government of ALL THE PEOPLE have the gumption to do what is
right and not stand at the back of the justice soup line until the last
recalcitrant state legislature has been fed? Terrorists may have blasted our
gay bodies into a bloody dust in a matter of seconds, but the Bush
Administration has planted its boot firmly on the survivors' still pulsing
necks and promised not to let up until the last surviving homophobe has
joined the 21st Century.

It's a bloody shame!



Individual Comment
Denver, CO

2002-03-17