Congressman Seeks Vet Benefits for Same-Sex Spouses

June 28, 2012 | Terry Howell

According to an AP report, Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) wants benefits for same-sex spouses of veterans and service members. Smith says spouses of service members should not be barred from receiving benefits because they are in same-sex marriages.

Rep. Smith, the Ranking Member of the House Armed Services Committee, is planning to introduce legislation to make the DoD and VA recognize all state (including common wealths, territories and the District of Columbia) sanctioned marriages. Same-sex marriages are now legal in Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Vermont and the Washington DC.

The AP story reports that Smith’s bill would change the definition of spouse in the U.S. code to include same-sex marriages.


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  • Government quarters for spouses of same sex couples is coming next for active duty military........they will live among other heterosexual families with children.  How does a parent explain Adam and Paul living next door in family quarters kissing as Adam's off to work?  Or Jane and Jill like manner.........God  help us through this immoral mine field.

  • When is the war going to start?

  • A California Congressman is introducing a bill that will allow kids to have more than 2 parents.  This will never stop as we all have heard of the slippery slope.  Well folks we be on it and picking up speed.

  • How have we managed to vote so many enemies into office??It is as if they are all banning together to destroy everything we as Americans believe in, Our judges have all gone against us, from the lower courts to the supreme, we have very few politicians that  have the guts to stand against these saboteurs, and our country is being destroyed from within. why, when Obama refused to produce his birth certificate was he not impeached immediately?? He won the first round and every one thereafter. The big shots in Washington sit there, vote themselves raises, make laws to protect themselves and exempt them from Obamacare. WE need to take their power away, make rules that would keep them in line,  and have the ability to fire them, by vote, if they step out of bounds as they are doing now.

    • In my opinion it is because the political parties are no longer political parties but rather organized crime and they will do and say anything legal or otherwise to get elected.  Honesty, integrity, and moral character as well as courage and backbone are virtues which are missing from 99.9% of elected officials of either party.  That along with the fact that the United States is a post Christian nation.  The Judeo-Christian values, morals, and ethics upon which this nation was founded are gone.  As you well know there is hardly a day goes by when Christians are not demonized, vilified, or persecuted in some form or fashion in a country who's currency says, In God We Trust.

  • Will it never stop?  It would seem that these people revel in rubbing our noses in the filth they force us to endure.  I dread the consequences but I don't see any other solution than for the people to "dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another".  Unfortunately, to dissolve those bands would require the same action which occurred 236 years ago.  I fear that the result of that would be catastrophic.  However, we are being backed into a corner which is becoming smaller and smaller.  It seems like we can never win any more.  After the actions of a traitorous activist judge by the name of John Roberts there is nothing which the federal government cannot force us to endure.  I and my wife have no grandchildren and probably never will.  As much as I think I would enjoy being a grandfather I'm glad I don't to worry what sort of a retched filthy world they would have to endure.

  • Just the word politician is Evil they are there for their own personal gain and not to represent We the People. We have chosen to elect the lesser of 2 Evils to many times the results is still EVIL. Sadly a Statesman seems not to exist anymore . God Help us in these trying times...

  • What else will this evil sob do to dismantel the REAL family? I have never seen a more anti- family, God, military and small business hatred. barak really hates America. GOD SAVE AMERICA.

     

  • And next year the Congressmen and women who advocate THIS will place a bill for recognizing 'brothers who marry brothers (pure familial conjugations) and sister marrying sister, and Stage B will be also summarily granted in a following addendum: "DoD and VA will recognize brother and sister 'Roman' Conjugations and vice-versa". The following year will be introduced (Obama's 2014) a Bacchanalia bill so that 'swing-military' conjugations with multiple partners will all be given benefits at the Commisaries, O&NCO clubs, etc., on every base throughout the land....Isn't it wonderful to know that the Army/Marines/Navy who died at Tarawa, Saipan, Iwo Jima, Okinowa, and the Bulge etc. for liberty and the destruction of world domination now (their pale bones discounted) watch in astonishment as their grandkids allow a lying, robbing, Socialist-Fascist-Communist Obama to spit on their actions, judgments, and weakening consciousness.

    • Infuriating beyond measure Paul..........

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