R002163
Tuesday, March 19, 2002 11:13 AM
Why not compensate gay/lesbian victims' families?
Dear Department of Justice,
I appeal to your department's name, in the highest sense of the word.
While the legal status of partners of gays is certainly threatened, a
result more of politics than of reason, who can imagine that their grief is
somehow less than that of families of straights?
And more to the point in this case, where compensation is awarded
presumably according to damages and need, what basis is there to assume
that the financial damage and need suffered by victims and families stands
in any proportional relationship to their legal standing?
As many politicians have been telling us for six months, put the politics
aside and take care of our responsibilities to our fellow citizens. We
don't have an official class system in America. We're all in this together.
United We Stand, remember?
Individual Comment
Robinson, Kansas