R000410
Tuesday, March 12, 2002 11:35 AM
Fetuses and ILLEGAL Immigrants get money, Domestic Partners
NO???
What's this about domestic partners getting screwed by the find while
FETUSES ad **ILLEGAL** Aliens are allowed?
Don't gave that ridiculous excuse about "State law"; it's quite apparent
that most state laws do not award domestic partners survivors' benefits
and that is simply a way of sidestepping the real issue, which is
discrimination. If you're so concerned about state law, please note that
most state laws would NOT allow ILLEGAL aliens to receive money. Try
again wtih your logic. And I also don't think any state gives fetuses
the same status as living people. You conveniently managed to ignore the
laws on these two classes, then claim that "State law" keeps you from
awarding survivors' beneftis to domestic partners.
Well, nobody is fooled by this ridiculous discrimination. I hope you
will stop to consider the hundreds of people who are just as hurt and
"up the creek" financially having lost a domestic partner (who in may
cases was the breadwinner) as a fetus who wasn't even born on 9/11 to a
parent they can't miss since they never knew them.
At least be consistent in your awards: if you're going to follow laws,
the ILLEGAL Aliens and fetuses are not eligible; if you can sidestep the
law for them, of course you can do so for domoestic partners. Those
folks pay the taxes that comprise this fund, too.
Individual Comment
Raleigh, NC