Democrats want homosexuals to have military family benefits

Nobody saw this coming, huh.

”U.S. Rep. Adam Smith wants the Pentagon to change the definition of spouse to include same-sex couples so that husbands and wives of legally married gays and lesbians in the armed forces could collect military benefits.”

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2018555371_adamsmith29m.html

“Smith, the ranking Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, on Wednesday introduced a bill to essentially exempt the Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans Affairs from the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), the 1996 federal law that defines marriage as between a woman and a man.”

(Why not exempt DOD from Defense of Marriage? Obama has already said his Justice Department will not defend the law.

(Of course, a law has to have a catchy name, generally having to do with “equality.” So, Rep. Smith’s proposal is called “Military Spouses Equal Treatment Act.”

(Here’s a thing people outside the military do not understand: The military is different. The military is not the same as your civilian neighborhood. If you haven’t been in a uniformed service, you can’t understand.)

“Smith’s bill would change the definition of spouse in the U.S. code to include same-sex marriages.”

http://militaryadvantage.military.com/2012/06/congressman-seeks-vet-benefits-for-same-sex-spouses/#ixzz1zZNz1AXS