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Monday, March 11, 2002 1:10 PM
Sept 11 Victims Fund Disparity
Mr. Feinberg (and President Bush),
I was shocked to hear your comments on Meet the Press in which you said that
the only way gay partners of Sept. 11 victims would receive compensation is
if their states recognize their unions legally. Come on, Mr. Feinberg and
President Bush, you should be ashamed. After all this country has been
through, you will hide behind unjust state laws when it comes to the victims
of Sept. 11, the countryıs ³heroes²?
I hope that you are going to quickly reexamine that policy and decide that,
as with all other national efforts to canonize these victims of terror (as
in, forgiving 2001 taxes, overlooking illegal alien status) you will stand
up for what your fund and our government have determined is ³justice² for
these victims and treat ALL survivors equally, including same-sex partners
and children of such unions.
As a taxpaying voter and one who knows of many incidents in which ³victims²
have suffered at the hands of American terrorists (criminals) and received
little or no special compensation, I have been a bit put off by how much
money has flowed into the hands of the Long Island house wives who lost a
loved one. What about the domestic partners and house husbands? I am
appalled that President Bushıs thinly-veiled homophobia, ³Christian values²
would taint the equitable distribution of the exorbitant proportion of
survivor funds.
Please stand up for justice and include ALL surviving homosexual partners of
Sept. 11 victims in the compensation distribution.
And please make sure that other victims in America are also not forgotten,
not the child of the woman in California who died of a car accident on Sept.
11, or the one who lost her father to cancer on Sept. 11, or the thousands
of Americans struck by unjust tragedy every day who donıt have a special
fund to help them.
Sincerely,
Individual Comment
Atlanta, GA