R001599
Monday, March 18, 2002 3:20 AM
Protest: INCLUDE GAY SPOUSES IN 9/11 FUND BENEFITS
This is to adamantly protest the exclusion of gay spouses from the resources available to heterosexual widows/widowers, even of illegal aliens!!! This is blatantly unfair, and I adamantly oppose such bigotry!
Are you also excluding common-law spouses? May I remind you that:
"In Germany, the Nazis first came for the Communists, and I didn't speak
up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I
didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade
unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then
they came for the Catholics, but I didn't speak up because I was a
Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time there was no one left
to speak up for me."
- Martin Niemoeller, Berlin Lutheran pastor arrested by the Gestapo and
sent to Dachau concentration camp in 1938; the Allied forces freed him
seven years later.
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