R002151
Monday, March 18, 2002 8:36 PM
911 fund benefits
According to you have the regulatory authority to treat all
persons equally with respect to survivor benefits. You have apparently
stated that significant others of Gay and Lesbians will not be eligible
for benefits. You apparently are taking this position even if the
deceased has a Will leaving everything to their significant other and
even if the significant other can establish by clear and convincing
evidence that they had a committed open relationship. It would seem to
me that you could provide benefits to the estate of the deceased and
allow the family or significant others to inherit where applicable. It
would also seem to me that you could establish objective criteria for
significant others to establish their right to benefit.
As a U.S. Citizen and taxpayer I continue to be greatly angered by my
country's continued stand against me and my fellow GLBT brothers and
sisters. If I am so much less than fetuses and illegal aliens then why
does my government continue to demand my participation. You are a leader
in this country. You are personally responsible for the pain and
suffering that your decisions are causing millions of American citizens.
Citizens who are hardworking and loyal to their country. You have the
power to do what is right. If you choose not to allow benefits to be
received by Gay and Lesbian partners of the victims of 9/11 then you are
as EVIL as the ones who flew the airplanes. I know that you understand
how the religious fundamentalism of the Muslim Terrorists is exactly the
same as the religious fundamentalism of Christians in America who
persecute Gay and Lesbians for purely religious idealogical reasons. For
you to join in the persecution by failing to provide benefits makes you
as EVIL as the terrorists.
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