Source: www.ebar.com
“John Berry, the Obama administration’s top-ranking openly gay appointee” says the memorandum will provide same-sex domestic partners with time should they need to care for sick partners, as well as any children. The memorandum does not spell out any specific benefits,” according to the Bay Area Reporter. (This picture is of John Berry at his acceptance speech, after being sworn in as US Director, Office of Personnel Management on April 13th of this year)
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"The two-page memorandum that Obama signed does not specify any new benefits to be given to LGBT federal employees. It requests that OPM Director Berry and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton "extend the benefits they have respectively identified to qualified same-sex domestic partners of federal employees where doing so can be achieved and is consistent with federal law.""
