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Mon Jan 26, 2009 at 16:45:00 PM EST
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| It's a new administration and the chance to forge ahead on equality issues that are long overdue. For same-sex partners of diplomats and other foreign service workers who often are stationed in countries where they are in harm's way while representing the United States, they haven't the same rights as opposite couples in the same situation.
Gays and Lesbians in Foreign Affairs Agencies (GLIFAA) has delivered a letter to the new Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, a request to support and work for full recognition of same-sex partners. The president of the organization, J Michelle Schohn, gathered the signatures of nearly 2,200 colleagues and friends across the State Department and foreign affairs agencies in support of the request by GLIFAA. Here is the letter that was delivered to Sec. Clinton today.  The Honorable Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State
U.S. Department of State
2201 C Street NW
Washington, DC 20520
cc: The Honorable Barack Obama, President of the United States
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500
Madam Secretary:
We congratulate you on your Senate confirmation, and we look forward to working with you in promoting America's interests and strengthening our national security in this rapidly changing world. Whether assigned stateside or overseas, Civil Service or Foreign Service, active or retired, we are all proud to be serving our nation.
We, the undersigned and representing the diversity of the foreign affairs agencies, would like to bring to your attention a matter that concerns us all. All of us are troubled that our families are not all treated equally and with the same respect. We are concerned that access to the federal health care insurance program is denied to same-sex partners of employees serving in Third World countries with substandard medical care. We question the logic of leaving same-sex partners to fend for themselves during an emergency evacuation of a high danger post. We are embarrassed when the Department will reimburse a variety of moving expenses, including the cost of transporting a pet, when an employee is assigned overseas, but will not do the same for a same-sex partner. We are saddened that individual and community safety are put at risk because full language instruction is not available to same-sex partners. We are uncomfortable that same-sex partners receive less compensation and fewer benefits for performing exactly the same job inside the mission as an opposite-sex spouse, that is, when same-sex partners are given a chance to work.
An order from your office designating same-sex partners as Eligible Family Members (EFMs) could remedy many of the inequalities that these families face. Other remedies will require coordination between the Executive and Legislative branches.
Madam Secretary, we believe that no colleague of ours is a second-class colleague, and no colleague's family is a second-class family. Given your commitment to protecting the safety and promoting the welfare of all Foreign Service families, we ask for your full consideration of our concerns and we hope that a dialogue aimed at ending this unequal treatment can be started.
Your loyal staff
The missive was also sent to those heading up the U.S. Agency for International Development, U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Department of Agriculture, U.S. Peace Corps and Millennium Challenge Corporation.
What do you think the response will be from Sec. Clinton's office, and is she ready to speak out for equality now that the rubber meets the road? The host of issues raised in the above letter clearly shows the impact of irrational and illogical institutionalized discriminatory practices that affect the our country's diplomatic effectiveness abroad. Beginning the process of removing these barriers for same-sex couples representing our nation, given the host of other LGBT issues on the table, seems a relatively non-controversial and proactive way to open the dialogue on the Hill, where we know the resistance and spinelessness often lie.
Hat tip, Life After Jerusalem. |
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