Seriously, I do pray that such benefits are available to widows/widowers of retired military.

This, however, brings up another point. What about the benefits enjoyed by military families across the nation? Will the partner of a deceased military person be entitled to commisary and px privileges? Champus? VA Hospital care?

These are all part and parcel of retirement benefits.

I sincerely doubt that claims for these benefits will float. Not seeing the law itself, I can only assume that it just means pension benefits in this case.

Regards,
Peter H.

Regards,
Peter H.

“Gay marriage is not our only legislative issue.”

Then name a few others. I double-dog dare you to identify at least ONE legislative issue that is not directly attributed to your identity politics.

Go ahead. We’re waiting.

Regards,
Peter H.

Sure. The leftist gays like Erik whine and scream about “hate crimes” while they hang Sarah Palin in effigy, and they complain about needing protection from “employment discrimination” while demanding that people be fired over $100 donations to causes they don’t like.

And I’m sure I’m intolerable to you, Erik; liberals rarely, if ever, can tolerate anyone who dares to challenge them or their errors.

NDT – you’re an intolerable prick, so I don’t respond to your comments.

LOL, you just did. And you managed to name-call while implicitly conceding the point. Well done.

I wasnt aware that California, where gay marriage went down in flames was part of the south.

Gay marriage is not our only legislative issue.

Thank you, Erik, for making it obvious the degree to which you will prostitute yourself to protect your massas, even to the point of throwing your own Congressional Democrats under the bus.

NDT – you’re an intolerable prick, so I don’t respond to your comments.

Second, in a free market, a woman who really wants to kill her unborn baby can simply go to someone else who has no moral compunction about it.

Um.. anyone else in their careers allowed to simply “not” do their jobs because of moral objections?

Yes, millions of people. Ever see the sign “We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone”?

Its actually called “freedom”, you might want to look it up.

Moreover, your comparison of forcing pharmacists to get into the liberal slaughter business after they have already chosen their careers to people who know full well the duties of their chosen professions before getting in is asinine.

But now that The South has been marginalized at both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue, we are going to see movement on long stalled initiatives important to our community.

I wasnt aware that California, where gay marriage went down in flames was part of the south. (or WA, OR, NV, AZ etc, etc, etc for that matter)

but clinton’s record on GLBT legislation runs deeper.

Does all that excuse his daydreaming during meetings with “gay leaders”? Rich Tafel has written that BJ’s WH staff wore latex gloves to welcome those leaders. Does “I feel your pain” excuse all that?

BTW, who’s keeping tabs on the number of gay media outlets Comrade Obama has granted interviews to?

Actually, the Pension Protection Act, which created this concept in the first place and of which the WRERA is a clarification, was passed in 2006, when Republicans were firmly in control of Congress — and over the objections of many Democrats like Harry Reid.

There were no gay rights bill for Clinton to sign as President because he had a hostile, anti-gay Congress controlled by the Republicans (and southern Democrats for the first two years of his Administration.)

Which is why he signed both DADT and DOMA instead of vetoing them, as he had the power to do and didn’t. Thank you, Erik, for making it obvious the degree to which you will prostitute yourself to protect your massas, even to the point of throwing your own Congressional Democrats under the bus.

by signing this into law, President George W. Bush has, by law, done more for gays than any other President in history.

Doesn’t count, Bruce, don’t you know that?

G W Bush is an anti-gay evangelical. Nothing he does can count as pro-homosexual.

Congress is already squirming and complaining about current income lost to deferred-taxation accounts. If this legislation sticks it to anyone, it sticks it to Congress, which feels taxes should be collected early and often.

Personally, I love it.