Administration Expands Federal Same-Sex Benefits

While the following article makes it's own point of addressing Barack Obama's agenda and willingness to ignore Federal law, consider the fact that Obama is seeking to expand federal spending for situations not supported by the majority of Americans and that are neither budgeted nor funded. He is in fact, advocating stealing from others to fund benefits for alternative lifestyle not supported by the general public at-large. The result will be more federal debt for government spending for benefits not authorized by Congress for cohabiting people. It seem odd that Obama is so fixated on granting benefits to cohabiting same-sex individuals while ignoring cohabiting opposite sex individuals. Regardless, in either case, the choice by individuals should not be or become an expense to the public.
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by Kim Trobee, CitizenLink: New orders go beyond the initial offer of long-term care. President Obama announced today he would extend more benefits to the same-sex partners of federal employees.  The move marks an expansion of a memo he sent last June directing federal agencies to offer long-term care coverage and a few fringe benefits to same-sex couples.

Wendy Wright, president of Concerned Women for America, said the president may be trying to shore up relations with the gay lobby. "President Obama seems to be going far out of his way to try and keep homosexual activists happy," she said, "but the problem is, they'll never be happy – they'll always demand more."
Over the past year, the president had ordered federal agencies to look into other benefits that could be given to same-sex partners.  A review showed some agencies could offer credit union memberships, adoption counseling and gym memberships.  Some would even be able to provide reimbursements for health insurance premiums, dental and vision insurance and types of business travel policies.

President Obama is prohibited by the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) from giving full benefits to same-sex couples and Bill Duncan, director of the Marriage Law Foundation, said the new guidelines are meant to test the waters.
"The administration's trying to signal that they want to do something to start to chip away at the Defense of Marriage Act," he said.

Wright said Obama's position is puzzling since he campaigned on a very different platform. "President Obama seems to have a different agenda now than he did when he ran for office," she said.  "When he ran for office, he left most people with the impression that he supported marriage between one man and one woman."

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