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Hissyspit

(45,788 posts)
Wed Sep 4, 2013, 03:27 PM Sep 2013

AG: Govt Won't Enforce Same-Sex Veterans Law

Source: Associated Press

AG: GOVT WON'T ENFORCE SAME-SEX VETERANS LAW

Sep. 4 3:10 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration says it will stop enforcing a law that blocks benefits to partners of military veterans in same-sex marriages.

In a letter to congressional leaders, Attorney General Eric Holder says that a provision in federal law on benefits to veterans and their families defines "spouse" to mean a person of the opposite sex. He says that definition leaves out legally married same-sex couples, and runs afoul of a Supreme Court ruling last June.

The court declared unconstitutional a provision in the Defense of Marriage Act restricting the words marriage and spouse to apply only to heterosexual unions. Holder says that like the Defense of Marriage Act, the provision in the veterans benefits law has the effect of placing lawfully married same-sex couples in a second-tier marriage.

Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/ag-govt-wont-enforce-same-sex-veterans-law

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AG: Govt Won't Enforce Same-Sex Veterans Law (Original Post) Hissyspit Sep 2013 OP
Who cares dennis4868 Sep 2013 #1
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Porn stash? bobclark86 Sep 2013 #5
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bobclark86

(1,415 posts)
5. Porn stash?
Thu Sep 5, 2013, 12:17 AM
Sep 2013

Who the hell has a porn stash anymore? It's all about STREAMING now! I will go watch some Man-Donkey hot lovin' now ... it's just for the NSA, it's not mine, lol.

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