Obama DOJ Won’t Defend Constitutionality Of Denying Military Benefits To Same-Sex Couples

[ProSense]

Obama DOJ Won’t Defend Constitutionality Of Denying Military Benefits To Same-Sex Couples

by TomP

Good News:

The Obama administration has announced that it will not defend laws that prevent married same-sex couples from obtaining military benefits. In a letter to Congress today, Attorney General Eric Holder argued, “(t)he legislative record of these provisions contains no rationale for providing veterans’ benefits to opposite-sex couples of veterans but not to legally married same-sex spouses of veterans … Neither the Department of Defense nor the Department of Veterans Affairs identified any justifications for that distinction that would warrant treating these provisions differently from Section 3 of DOMA."

http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2012/02/17/428383/obama-doj-wont-defend-law-denying-military-benefits-to-same-sex-couples/

This is really good.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/02/17/1065960/-Obama-DOJ-Won-t-Defend-Constitutionality-Of-Denying-Military-Benefits-To-Same-Sex-Couples

[ProSense]

1. Kick! n/t

[MineralMan]

2. Excellent. I'm a little surprised more people aren't K&Ring this thread.

This is where the second term is headed. Good news!

[ProSense]

6. I was

beginning to think it was already posted multiple times.

Talking Points Memo has more:

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/02/obama-administration-wouldnt-defend-blocking-military-benefits-from-same-sex-couples.php

[tosh]

3. K&R!!

[SunsetDreams]

4. K&R Great!

[jenmito]

5. More proof of his homophobia.