On Wednesday July 20, Congress will be reconsidering DOMA (the “Defense of Marriage Act,” one of Bill Clinton’s most disastrous “third-way” compromises) for the first time since it was enactted 15 years ago. The Human Rights Campaign asked for comments from those whom this inhumane law affects directly. Here’s what I said:
I am a 65-year-old federal retiree in a same-sex domestic partnership of 32 years. Because of DOMA, my partner is not eligible for any survivor benefits from me, nor can I add him to my health insurance. In order to ensure that he is looked after if I should die first, I have been forced by this situation to take out a life insurance policy. As to health benefits: He has a chronic health issue which we must cover in the individual insurance market at exorbitant rates; in fact, as I write, he is in severe pain which we cannot treat because on the individual market he cannot get coverage for the condition for a year. Members of congress: I am on the exact same FEHBP as you; imagine yourselves in this ridiculous position to know my frustration. The federal government is shooting itself in the foot with this outdated law, discouraging talented potential civil servants from applying for employment because they happen to be gay and can get humane treatment for their family members in the private sector. For heaven’s sake drag yourselves into the 21st century.
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Message to Congress: Get off your butts and do the job we sent you to Washington to do! You have more vacation time, sick leave, insurance coverage, salaries than the average worker will see in a life time! Worst of all, you have voted these benefits to yourselves! Shame on you! Most of you have never worried about where your next pay check is coming from, or how you are going to pay the mortgage, let alone how you will send your kids to college. Stop acting like spoiled brats, and do your jobs! Stop catering to the fat cats who supported your campaigns, and start thinking about where America is going. Republican or Democrat, liberal or conservative, stop the BS, and make something happen! Anything is better than the nothing that has been going on for months. Americans need jobs to get our ecomony back where it should be. Please! Do something!!
Yes, needle-using, buggering, twisted perverts do contract HIV and hepatitis. It’s an occupational hazard of being queer. The question is, must the rest of us pay the cost of others’ poor and unsanitary persoal habits? Homos are trying to persuade us that theirs is a lifestyle choice, protected by “pursuit of happiness” in Constitutional Law. If theirs is truly a free choice lifestyle, they should then bear oersonal responsibility, and not pass the buck onto us. On a more serious note, we are about to become the first nation in history to pass into insolvency due to corruption of the health care system. It’s high time we began to practice a little triage.
bobbyboynyc- Although homophobia and bigotry are not covered by standard medical policies, I urge you to seek help.
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