R001692
Monday, March 18, 2002 9:19 AM
Compensation for 9-11 victims
I am horrified, outraged, and ashamed to learn that the U.S. government is
planning to withhold compensation for the domestic partners of homosexual
victims of the 9-11 terrorist attacks. Did the gay and lesbian victims of
9-11 suffer any less than heterosexual victims in the final minutes of their
lives? Do their surviving partners experience any less grief, or economic
loss, than the family members of heterosexual victims? Is the U.S. Dept. of
Justice so completely callow and so rigid in its heterosexist morality that
it will refuse to treat all the victims of this tragedy equally?
As an American citizen, and a person of conscience, I demand that the DOJ
treat all surviving spouses and domestic partners equally in its
compensation plan. To do otherwise is to make a mockery of justice.
Individual Comment
Dallas TX