dojR002184.xml

dojR002184.xml

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2002-03-19

Tuesday, March 19, 2002 12:40 PM
Include partners of Gay and Lesbians in Access to 9/11 funds
To Whom It May Concern:

I was outraged to learn that the partners of gay and lesbian victims of Sept. 11 will not automatically receive the same benefits as heterosexual victims spouses. The September 11 Victim Compensation Fund will apparently even provide for fetuses and illegal aliens but not the partners of gay and lesbians!

This blatant discrimination is so totally un-American that it sickens me. What makes some American heroes more equal than others, simply because they are heterosexual? The terror of 9/11 should have united our country-but here again is division.
How sad that some have learned SO LITTLE from such a great loss.
Each life that was lost was a tragedy-not just heterosexual lives. Therefore the partners of the homosexual heroes of 9/11 deserve the same compensation that ANY victims family receives.
SHAME on the September 11 Victim Compensation Fund for such horrific discrimination in the wake of this tragedy.
A disappointed American,





Individual Comment
Tampa, FL

2002-03-19