{"id":12615,"date":"2011-08-16T02:15:57","date_gmt":"2011-08-16T07:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=12615"},"modified":"2013-10-14T16:43:42","modified_gmt":"2013-10-14T19:43:42","slug":"homosexual-advocacy-group-pushes-for-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/16\/homosexual-advocacy-group-pushes-for-benefits\/","title":{"rendered":"Homosexual Advocacy Group Pushes for Benefits"},"content":{"rendered":"

In perhaps the most dismissed — and yet most widely predicted — response to the repeal of the policy known as “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” a homosexual advocacy group is pushing for military benefits currently denied to homosexuals<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Far from simply relying on the eventual undoing of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network says the military can actually grant benefits consistent with the law:\u00a0 <\/p>\n

For example, legal experts at SLDN argue that married housing benefits can\u2019t be extended to same-sex couples (because that payout is outlined in federal law), but determining who is eligible to live in military family housing (governed by department regulations) could include those couples without running afoul of DOMA.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Basically, the group says “married” housing can’t be granted to homosexuals, but the military isn’t limited to having only “married” housing.<\/p>\n

Military officials have said that gay servicemembers with children can live on base with their same-sex partner if that partner is the designated caregiver, since military regulations allow that caregiver to be someone besides a spouse (a sister or grandparent, for example).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

They’re right.<\/p>\n

Current military policy allows, for example, a military member to host his mother-in-law as a dependent, or a sister as a nanny.\u00a0 Since “anyone” can be granted access to military housing, even if they’re not “married” to the servicemember, the SLDN argues homosexuals can, too.\u00a0 While this is a far cry from the original intent of the policy, it certainly falls within its scope.<\/p>\n

The group is encouraging the military to write all <\/em>of its policies this way.\u00a0 This would essentially “skirt” the Defense of Marriage Act by removing marriage from the equation.<\/p>\n

Of course, when questions like this were asked during the “training” leading to repeal, the unanimous answer from military leadership was that DOMA made it moot, therefore it wasn’t worth discussing.<\/p>\n

Seems the SLDN disagrees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In perhaps the most dismissed — and yet most widely predicted — response to the repeal of the policy known as “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” a homosexual advocacy group is pushing for military benefits currently denied to homosexuals. Far from simply relying on the eventual undoing of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network says the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[219,1744,442,2,1821],"class_list":["post-12615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-dadt","tag-doma","tag-homosexual","tag-military","tag-sldn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}