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2002-03-12

Tuesday, March 12, 2002 1:23 PM
Question re: Kenneth Feinberg and the September 11th Fund


I could not beleave what I read in the "Meet the Press" transcripts as
it applied to the 911 Fund. According to the excerpt below if state law
discriminates against gay people, then so will Feinberg and the 911
Fund. The problem for gay Americans who lost loved ones on September 11
is that most states do not legally recognize gay relationships, and the
very few that do tend to do so only for state employees, not for
citizens at large. And while a handful of cities do in fact recognize
such
relationships, under Feinberg's formula, it's the state's law that
counts, not the city's.

What is the purpose of the Fund? If it is to help in its on small way
to rectify such a national tragidy as it effected loved ones and
families, then why are specific loved ones and families being leftout?
The gay people that have been robbed by this tragidy are so small in
number compared to all others that are not being discriminated against.
Why cause such a hurt to these people when it would only take so little
to help them.

Please reconsided the statement made by Kenneth Feinberg on NBC's "Meet
the Press," March 10, 2002 and make this thing right for all people --
not just the ones that are socially exceptable.

On this six-month anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center
and the Pentagon, don't let Kenneth Feinberg and the
September 11th Fund tell the American people that regardless of whether
a gay man was one of the four heroes on United Flight 93 who saved the
US Congress and the White House from utter annihilation, the 911 Fund
plans to discriminate against an American hero because most of the
country sanctioned such discrimination prior to September 11.

Please, Please help all people who were directly effected by this
national tragidy! Please don't allow any of the hero's to be seen as
anything but.

Thank you


Individual Comment
Houston, TX

2002-03-12