Former Rep. Gerry Studds, the first openly gay member of Congress, was married to another man in Massachusetts at the time of his death, but the federal government will not pay death benefits to his spouse. [...] Under federal law, pensions can be denied only to lawmakers' same-sex partners and ...
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10-18-2006, 04:03 PM
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| tyop speicalist Religion Moderator  Capitalist California 
| Under federal law, homosexuals are the same as traitors and spies Former Rep. Gerry Studds, the first openly gay member of Congress, was married to another man in Massachusetts at the time of his death, but the federal government will not pay death benefits to his spouse.More...  | ||||
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10-18-2006, 04:08 PM
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| Better Dead than Red  Democrat "My friends, we’ve got them just where we want them.”
| saw that on tv a little while ago... i had the same reaction | ||||
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10-18-2006, 04:11 PM
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| ipsa Scientia Potestas est  Pragmatist North Carolina
| Really crappy IMO.  I can't wait until these idiotic laws are done away with like segregation was. They're outdated. People need to get over it and allow them to live their lives how they want to as long as they're not hurting anyone. | ||||
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10-18-2006, 04:11 PM
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| Dirty Liberal  Democrat South Jersey
| WTF? We are so messed up as a country. | ||||
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10-18-2006, 04:18 PM
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| Never, never, never give up  Conservative Party High Point, NC
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10-18-2006, 04:24 PM
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| tyop speicalist Religion Moderator Capitalist California
| Originally Posted by Stylerod Republican pressure forced him to do it! 
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10-18-2006, 04:26 PM
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| Braccae tuae aperiuntur.  Reform Party NJ
| Originally Posted by Dumpy Dooby
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10-18-2006, 04:27 PM
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| tyop speicalist Religion Moderator Capitalist California
| Originally Posted by JaJae I was being sarcastic
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10-18-2006, 04:44 PM
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| Never, never, never give up Conservative Party High Point, NC
| Originally Posted by Dumpy Dooby So was I
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10-18-2006, 05:02 PM
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| Banned  Conservative Government is another way to say Better Than You
| Originally Posted by Stylerod
 Shows how idiotic that post is becoming. (unless of course it really was his fault) | ||||
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10-18-2006, 05:02 PM
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| Banned Conservative Government is another way to say Better Than You
| Originally Posted by Dumpy Dooby Does that mean Democratic pressure if forcing Bush to sign all those bills?
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10-18-2006, 05:04 PM
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| helluo librorum The Lab Moderator  Humanist Chicago Suburbs
| Originally Posted by ballz2wallz When isn't it?
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10-18-2006, 05:04 PM
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| helluo librorum The Lab Moderator Humanist Chicago Suburbs
| Originally Posted by ballz2wallz Maybe if the Democrats weren't the minority.
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10-18-2006, 05:09 PM
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| Banned Conservative Government is another way to say Better Than You
| Originally Posted by Scrumtralecent Democrats can still pressure
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10-18-2006, 05:13 PM
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| helluo librorum The Lab Moderator Humanist Chicago Suburbs
| Originally Posted by ballz2wallz With what? A threat of a filibuster?
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10-18-2006, 05:19 PM
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| Braccae tuae aperiuntur. Reform Party NJ
| Originally Posted by Scrumtralecent This argument is gonna be completely null and void when the Dems take control next month. It seems on this forum so many people are so willing to give the Dems a pass on everything, scandals, lies, morality, and the biggest of all.. the lack of blame for any issue that comes out of our government.
Next month can the conservatives blame everything on the Democrats and have a clean slate from any and all blame from the liberals? | ||||
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10-18-2006, 05:23 PM
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| helluo librorum The Lab Moderator Humanist Chicago Suburbs
| Originally Posted by JaJae When the Democrats have the House, Senate and 1600 Pennsylvania, absolutly. At the moment 99.9% of this crap falls at the Republicans feet.
If the Dems take back one or more houses then they will certainly share in the blame. And *newsflash* you blame liberals now. Why would anyone think that would change? | ||||
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10-18-2006, 06:18 PM
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| Baka  Idealist Adelaide, Australia
| So let me get this ... only lawmaker gay partners are denied? | ||||
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10-18-2006, 06:54 PM
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| Political Genius  Republican Yorba Linda Ca.
| Originally Posted by JaJae
Will they please run on that? Then we would have an atleast one agenda item.  Having no problem with same sex couples myself I would ask why taxpayers should hand out pension benefits to same sex partners? | ||||
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10-18-2006, 07:19 PM
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| One American Family at a Time.  Idealist The OC, California
| Originally Posted by RMNIXON Why should they hand out pension benefits to partners of the opposite sex?
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