Posted on 06/26/2002 7:23:53 AM PDT by truthandlife
Edited on 09/03/2002 4:50:41 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
President Bush has signed a bill allowing death benefits to be paid to the domestic partners of firefighters and police officers who die in the line of duty, permanently extending a federal death benefit to same-sex couples for the first time.
The new law allows a $250,000 federal benefit for survivors of public safety officers to be paid to any beneficiary listed on the victim's life insurance policy. The money has been available only to spouses, children and parents.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
This would also allow the beneficiary to be another relative (like an aunt or uncle) or anyone else the person designates. This is not unlike private insurance policies.
But, this is a gay-bashing thread, so carry on.
Not only is extending the benefit not conservative, but the mere existence of it is an abomination!
According to the article, these could also be beneficiaries.
EXCEPT it is NOT insurance. It is TAX money taken out of the general fund. Please show me in the Constitution where the government is allowed to take money frome one person and give it to another.
AMERICA TODAY (READ THE BIBLE)
21For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 23and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.
24Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator--who is forever praised. Amen.
26Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. 27In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.
28Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done. 29They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, 30slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; 31they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless.
I don't see how this is a gay rights law. Why shouldn't a single firefighter be able to list his parents as beneficiaries.
My brother in law just died at 46 years of age. His parents VERY MUCH wish right now that he had life insurace with them listed as beneficiaries. But he did not. What would be wrong with it?
Maybe a lawsuit, maybe a case going to the Supreme Court. Hey, I feel badly for all of the people who lost loved ones during September 11th, but, just because someone was on someones life insurance policy doesn't mean they were "domestic partners" anyway.
I'm the beneficiary on my aunts insurance policy but I'm obviously not her "domestic partner".
Also, I guess this will also cover heterosexual couples who were living together. As 'good intentioned' as Bush may be by doing this it seems he just opened a pandoras box. jmo.
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