R002654
Saturday, March 23, 2002 9:51 AM
Compensate equally
Mr Zwick:
I have recently learned that you plan to descriminate against gay and
lesbian victims of the 9/11 attacks. You state that you would not
compensate the surviving partners of gay victims if the state in which they
lived at the time of their death currently practices discrimination against
them by not recognising their partnership. Does that mean that if a victim
lived in NJ where descrimination is not legal their surviving partner would
be compensated but if they lived across the river in Yonkers NY where
descrimination is legal they would not be compensated? What if the victim
lived a few miles south in NYC where descrimination is illegal under city
law but legal under state law? You will have created a monstrous and
fundamentally unfair system that will be mired in controversy and court
challenges. I urge you to compensate the families of all victims fairly and
equally. There is no other just and moral solution.
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