President Barack Obama has ordered child care, medical leave, relocation and other benefits to be extended to the same-sex partners of executive branch federal employees, according to The Washington Post.
The benefits include only those he can offer under existing law. Others need congressional action.
Currently, if an employee is moving with a partner, the employee is sent a bill for half the moving expenses. If they are flying and have a pet, their pet would get an airline ticket and the partner would get a bill.
Last year, we reported that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton changed rules for State Department employees. Before the change, if an embassy was being evacuated, the employee, partner and their dog would be evacuated, but they’d received a bill for the partner.
In other words, before the change, the federal government was treating dogs better than same-sex partners.
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Very generous of him to give away more tax payer dollars to buy gay voters. He wants to buy their vote with my dollars. Obama, WW3 might be starting in Korea and your worried about the partners of gay government employees? FAIL.
So, Hermon, you think the partners of gay and lesbian employees should be treated worse than their dogs? An executive order takes all of two minutes of his time.
Yeah Hermon, because the fact that these partners are committing just as much of their lives to our government and country as their heterosexual counterparts shouldn’t mean anything, right? And for what purpose would Obama be buying our votes? Its not as though our big 10% population numbers constitute a particularly attractive target. Perhaps, maybe he just felt like he could do the decent thing and take care of his employees all while managing to be sufficiently concerned with Korea. The only thing FAIL in this situation seems to be your ridiculous, nonsensical logic.
Finally…something! Thanks B.O.!