Lead gay legal group blasts Obama administration

12/18/2009

"Lambda Legal is the gay ACLU. They are THE gay civil rights legal group. And they're none too pleased that the Obama administration is refusing to abide by a court order directing them to provide health benefits to the lesbian partner of a gay federal employee.

"...Remember what we told you about how the White House waits until Friday afternoon to do anything gay, in the hopes that the media, and then you the public, won't find out? And note specifically what Lambda said about how the Obama administration is outright refusing to even tell the judge what their problem is, after participating in this dispute previously. This is the forum for federal discrimination cases. The White House has unilaterally decided, it appears, that gay federal employees no longer have any recourse before a judge - hell, at this point separate but equal would be a step up. As Lambda notes, it's truly astounding that this kind of obfuscation on civil rights issues is coming from the Obama administration."

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