The military is poised to extend some benefits to the same-sex partners of service members, U.S. officials said Tuesday, about 16 months after the Pentagon repealed its ban on openly gay service.
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has not made a final decision on which benefits will be included, the officials said, but the Pentagon is likely to allow same-sex partners to have access to the on-base commissary and other military subsidized stores, as well as some health and welfare programs.
Panetta must walk a fine, legal line. While there has been increased pressure on the Pentagon to extend some benefits to same-sex partners, defense officials must be careful not to violate the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, or DOMA. The federal law forbids the federal government from recognizing any marriage other than those between a man and a woman.
An announcement is expected to come in the next several days. Officials discussed the plan on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly speak about internal Pentagon deliberations.
Pentagon press secretary George Little declined to comment. Other officials made it clear that there are still last-minute legal discussions going on to determine the details.
Read More at OfficialWire . By Lolita C. Baldor.
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They have to let them have any benefits they want after all you don’t want to hurt their Feelings.
Sodom & Gomorrah is nothing like how the USA is becoming to a EVIL & Wicked country
Evil is getting Worse every Day and the last 4 years with the Evil Empire of Odumbo going full speed ahead
nothing Surprises me with this Evil Regime.
Though Obama and his administration may be a great contributor to the moral decay of our society, man’s wickedness in his unbridled lust for power, fame, money and sexual perversion are the main reasons that have propelled this society into the most depraved of all….
Those that relish this life can’t see the wickedness for what it is. If you were to ask them if they thought they themselves were good and decent, they most likely would say, yes I am, I haven’t stolen and killed anyone… Though by God’s standards we all have committed adultery, lied, stolen and even killed others, for God’s WORD tells us in Matthew 5:28
But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart. And again in 1 John 3:15
Anyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life in him.
Yes, This present Evil world is passing away, so why should we want to relish this life or this world.
Heaven & Earth will pass away but GOD’S Word will never pass away.
Some thing GOOD is coming a New World Order Controlled by GOD.
If you are Christian I hope you do not relish this life or this world… There is nothing of this world that I wish to hold on to….
Be very careful my friend…. When I am asked by someone if I believe in a conspiracy for The New World Order by the illuminati, I tell them, most definitely but the one behind The New World Order is Satan, who is the god or prince of this world..