“ sorry!—the package of benefits doesn’t include the single most important work-related benefit: health insurance.”
Dan Savage on Obama’s presidential memorandum recommending federal benefits for partners of gay federal employees. This was supposed to be his way to make amends for the DOJ brief supporting DOMA. But instead, he decides to reinforce another route of legal discrimination - the government’s policy that gay employees’ partners aren’t equal to straight employees’. What. The. FUCK.
Source: slog.thestranger.com
