dojA001099.xml

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2001-12-06

Thursday, December 06, 2001 3:01 AM


To: Kenneth L. Zwick, Director
Office of Management Programs
U.S. Department of Justice

Mr. Zwick,

I am a student at a nationally accredited Lutheran post-secondary institution. I am also a member of the UFMCC, a Christian denomination formed to welcome members of the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender community. I am writing to you to request that you include among relatives eligible for compensation those who lost their life partners as well as de facto parents or children, without regard to sexual orientation or marital status. ; I am asking you, in the U.S. Government, to follow the example already set by New York Governor Pataki in granting compensation benefits "on a showing of mutual interdependence with the victim, in recognition that anyone who shared with the victim living expenses, day-to-day activities and the emotional bonds of family deserves help in this time of
need." I thank you for your time. And on behalf of the GLBT community, I wish you a blessed holiday season!

Cordially,

Individual Comment
Seward, NE

2001-12-06