R002767
Wednesday, March 27, 2002 5:00 PM
A shameful blot on the memory of all victims
The decision to award compensation to virtually everyone BUT the
surviving partners and children of gay men and lesbians is a dark
blot on the memory of all who lost their lives on Sept. 11th. It is
uncharitable, un-American, and unforgiveable.
We hear a lot of rhetoric about so-called "special rights." Is this a
"special right"? -- to be treated the same and mourned the same and
to die the same as the thousands of other victims, but to be denied
the same access to help with the rent, with the electric bill, with
the funeral expenses, with the costs of carrying on when your partner
and primary breadwinner has been murdered?
Is this what George W. Bush meant when he talked of "compassionate
conservatism"? Sure looks like the old-fashioned heartless and
bigoted kind to me! Isn't it ironic that Osama Bin Laden would likely
agree with such a policy?
Please, put some common decency back into your deliberations and find
a way to provide help and compensation to ALL those who lost their
loved ones on Sept. 11th.
Individual Comment
Washington, DC