This is what George Bush's administration would do. This is why Joe and I are asking all fair-minded Democrats, straight and gay, to join us in taking a pledge not to donate to the DNC, Organizing for America, or the Obama re-election campaign until President Obama and the Democrats keeps their promises (and stop hurting our community). (More on the pledge here.)
Mike Signorile has the story, and he's absolutely correct. Mike has lots of quotes from the court, telling the Office of Personnel Management (headed by a gay man, no less) to stop interfering with this woman's efforts to get health insurance. Mike explains:
A report published on Time's web site just before the holiday has an explosive bit of information: the chief judge on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled a while back that a federal employee who reports to him, a lesbian, be given federal marriage benefits, and it was actually going to happen until the White House, through the Office of Personnel Management -- headed by openly gay appointee, John Berry -- refused to comply and directed the health insurance carrier of the employee not to proceed.Here's more from the TIME piece Mike found:
Last week, the chief judge of one of America's most prominent federal courts ordered an Executive Branch agency to stop interfering with a court employee's efforts to secure health insurance coverage for her wife. "The Office of Personnel Management shall cease at once its interference with the jurisdiction of this tribunal," wrote Chief Judge Alex Kozinski of the Ninth Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals. He gave the Administration 30 days to permit Karen Golinski, a lawyer employed by the Ninth Circuit, to include the woman she married under California law last year on her family health-insurance plan.These people are not our friends. And the sooner the gay community, and every core Democratic constituency realizes this fact, the sooner we can all organize, together, to force President Obama to keep his promises. This is absolutely revolting.
