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Obama admin requires insurance companies to cover same-sex couples

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WASHINGTON, D.C. , March 19, 2014 – Trying to boost enrolment numbers as March 31 approaches, the Obama administration is taking new executive actions, including requiring insurance companies participating in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to cover same-sex couples . Bloomberg   reports  that the administration has ordered same-sex couples to be treated as “families” by insurers participating in the ACA exchanges. Judicial Crisis Network Chief Counsel Carrie Severino says “the move shows Obama administration is not interested in respecting a state's inherent authority in this area. They're simply pursing a political end.”  The administration has made over a dozen changes to the ACA, some of which have been declared illegal by Republicans. Last year, the president said the health care law was “settled,” only weeks before delaying  the application of the individual insurance mandate , and mere months before  delaying  several other components of the law.  Last year,

Sebelius promotes Obamacare benefits targeted at high-risk homosexuals

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Official portrait of United States Health and Human Services Secretary . (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) As the Obama Administration gears up to celebrate “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Month” throughout June, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced  Monday that meeting the special needs of homosexuals will be a targeted goal of Obamacare because “for too long...[they] were pushed to the side.” “For too long, the health concerns of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) individuals were pushed to the side,” Sebelius said in a  statement . “LGBT individuals have faced limited access to health care and insurance. They have been less likely to get the preventive care they need to stay healthy, they have higher rates of tobacco use, and they are often at increased risk for mental health illness.” Rather than discouraging high-risk homosexual behaviors, Sebelius highlighted special programs and regulations that address the medica

San Francisco judge: DOMA ‘discriminatory’ for denying same-sex partner benefits

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James Ware, District Judge (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) SAN FRANCISCO, April 11, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A federal judge in San Francisco has called federal law defining marriage as between a man and a woman discriminatory for preventing partner benefits from going to a federal employee’s homosexual partner. On Tuesday, Chief U.S. District Judge James Ware said that the government’s guarantee of a “discrimination-free workplace” was violated when Christopher Nathan, a law clerk for U.S. Magistrate Maria Elena James, attempted but failed to obtain insurance benefits for the male lover once recognized by the state of California as his “spouse,”  reports  the San Francisco Gate .  Although same-sex “marriage” is not legally recognized in California, the state has continued to treat as valid marriage licenses issued to homosexual couples during the 5-month window that the practice was legal in 2008. Because the ruling was part of the court’s employee dispute-resolution program, Ware

Taxpayers, consumers, and businesses would be forced to subsidize homosexual relationships.

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Image by benchilada via Flickr One of the key arguments often heard in support of homosexual civil “ marriage ” revolves around all the government “benefits” that homosexuals claim they are denied. Many of these “benefits” involve one thing—taxpayer money that homosexuals are eager to get their hands on. For example, one of the goals of homosexual activists is to take part in the biggest  government entitlement program of all— Social Security . Homosexuals want their partners to be eligible for Social Security survivors benefits when one partner dies. The fact that Social Security survivors benefits were intended to help stay-at-home mothers who did not have retirement benefits from a former employer has not kept homosexuals from demanding the benefit. Homosexual activists are also demanding that children raised by a homosexual couple be eligible for benefits when one of the partners dies—even if the deceased partner was not the child’s biological or adoptive parent. As another exa