Benefits Extended To Federal Employees’ Domestic Partners

American Voices

June 19, 2009 | ISSUE 45•25

President Obama signed a memo that expanded benefits to domestic partners of federal employees, including same-sex couples. What do you think?

This is just a sneaky way for Obama to make homosexuals American citizens."

Kath Santrello
Systems Analyst
Like federal employees don't screw around on the job enough as it is. Now they'll be spending all their time on Craigslist trying to find a domestic partner."

James Rudow
Edge Burnisher
How immoral! Accessing a partner's flexible spending account to purchase prescription eyewear with pretax earnings is a right that should only be granted to those in religiously-sanctioned heterosexual relationships.”

Ryan Welker
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