The federal government of the United States of America has now officially recognized gay partners under at least one federal law. That's a pretty historic event that I think will have ripples of influence in the future. I don't know that it will have any influence at all in the constitutional amendment debate, but these are the kind of events that gradually change a culture, and the bigots in the religious right know that, and fear it. If we were what the relgious right says we are, the feds wouldn't be paying us survivor benefits.
Can't wait for the fundies to make the public relations mistake of blowing a gasket over someone trying to help a survivor of September 11. Message to Pat Robertson: Go ahead, make my day.
The partner of a gay woman killed on Sept. 11, 2001, has been awarded money by the U.S. government's compensation fund, the first such award to a same-sex survivor who was not a legal heir, her attorney said on Thursday.
Compensation was paid this week to Nancy Walsh, a New Hampshire nurse whose partner Carol Flyzik was a passenger on a Los Angeles-bound jet that slammed into the World Trade Center, said Walsh's attorney Jennifer Levi. - Reuters
