R001385
Sunday, March 17, 2002 11:02 AM
Equality Needed
If we as a nation can decide to overlook violations of federal law to allow
sharing compensation with the families of illegal aliens (and I believe we
should), we should also share compensation with the "adopted families" of the
victims of 9/11 that were gay.
Just because gay people are not allowed to marry, does not mean that gay
"family" members did not also suffer horrible losses that day also. Gay
heroes like who helped bring down the flight in Pennsylvania -
saving lives in Washington D.C., NY Fire Dept.
who died in the line of duty when the first tower fell, and
who was of the plane that crashed into the Pentagon (and many more)
deserve to share in our country's bounty and caring as well.
The compensation should go to those who the deceased would want to have been
compensated - not just to those who the law says are intitled to be
compensated. If you can break the laws for illegal alliens in this matter -
you can do whatever you want. So, lets not treat as
second class citizens while treating illegal aliens as first class citizens.
Help all of those who were directly hurt by these events.
Individual Comment
Houston, Texas