From the NY Times:
The State Department will offer equal benefits and protections to same-sex partners of American diplomats, according to an internal memorandum Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton sent last week to an association of gay and lesbian Foreign Service officers.
“Like all families, our Foreign Service families come in different configurations; all are part of the common fabric of our post communities abroad,” Mrs. Clinton said in the memorandum, a copy of which was provided to The New York Times by a member of the gay and lesbian association.
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Now, all of us who know the Constitution applies to everyone (see the 14th Amendment ) should write to Obama and point our that this is a great opportunity to move for the trashing of the so-called Defense of Marriage Act.
Also, see Glen Greenwald on what the DOMA does to people.
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or lesbian,and be a diplomat.
Being in the Armed Services,and of the same persuasion,gets one fired.
Please,enlighten me,in your country one is allowed to be either gay,
or lesbian,and be a diplomat.
Being in the Armed Services,and of the same persuasion,gets one fired.
Peter, I've been trying to figure out this country's difficulty with LGBT people for decades. I wish I could enlighten you aside from the fallacious religious ban on same-sex relationships. You'd thiink that with all the practice the clerhy in the RC Church have, they might have come to the conclusion that there's no problem between consenting adults.
Nothing can destroy a government more quickly than its failure to observe its own laws, or worse, its disregard of the charter of its own existence. – Justice Tom C. Clark - Mapp vs. Ohio