Bush admin tool cites 'Chuck and Larry' defense to deprive same-sex couple fed

[Shana A]

Bush admin tool cites 'Chuck and Larry' defense to deprive same-sex couple fed benefits
by: Pam Spaulding
Tue Dec 02, 2008 at 09:00:00 AM EST

http://www.pamshouseblend.com/showDiary.do;jsessionid=1B3F19E600B26490B84659FCD189DEA4?diaryId=8460

January 20 cannot get here soon enough. I've had it with these brain-dead bigoted tools of the Bush Admin who reach high up in their posteriors to pull out BS like this to justify discrimination. Think Progress:

    In September, the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee considered legislation that would provide federal benefits to same-sex domestic partners of federal employees. Howard Weizmann, the deputy director of the U.S. Office Of Personnel Management, objected to the bill because it "could lead to fraud and abuse in the programs we administer." Weizmann claimed that the office was unaware of any interest from federal employees for such benefits. He even evoked a fictional movie plot of two heterosexual New York firefighters who pretend to be a gay couple to suggest such fraud would be a problem in real life:

[mickie88]

yeah we're all going to pay 200 or more every paycheck so we can fraud all the insurance companies, what a bunch of bs!!!

[lady amarant]

Ah, yet another example of idiot imitating (or at least citing) art. (If you could call Chuck and Larry 'art')

~Simone.