R002892
Wednesday, April 03, 2002 1:28 PM
Dear Sir/Madam:
I am a middle aged heterosexual women who is unbelievably distressed at the
extraordinary injustice of your decision to deny benefits to the families of
gay and lesbian victims of the 9/11 attacks. These terrorists did not
discriminate in their heinous attack on our country. They sought to destroy
two towers and a Pentagon full of Americans and their allies - people of
all races, of all religions and of all sexual preferences.
In other words, they saw us as one people--how tragic, how remarkably
unpatriotic and unfair, that our own government and charities, the same
agencies we fund with our tax dollars and our donations, do not. In fact,
what you are now doing is victimizing the families of those gays and
lesbians that were killed on September 11th for a second time.
If you are going to discriminate, you should have been so kind as to let
people know before they donate--I can't tell you how many good and kind
Americans I know who gave money to 9/11 charities, assuming, as did I, that
the money would be distributed fairly to all who suffered from this tragedy.
We all feel cheated now -- now not by the terrorists, but by our own
government and institutions.
Shame on all of you who have made this decision.
Individual Comment
New York, NY