Pentagon officials announced Wednday that the DOD will provi marriage benefs to same-sex upl for the first time, givg gay spo accs to health re, hog allowanc and fay separatn pay.
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- GAY ARY UPL WELE PENTAGON CISN TO EXTEND BENEFS
- GAY SPO OF MEMBERS OF MILARY GET BENEFS
- SAME-SEX MARRIAGE NOW LEGAL FOR GAY MILARY COUPL ALL 50 STAT
- GAY, LBIAN SPO TO GA FULL BENEFS
GAY ARY UPL WELE PENTAGON CISN TO EXTEND BENEFS
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WASHINGTON — Pentagon officials announced Wednday that the DOD will provi marriage benefs to same-sex upl for the first time, givg gay spo accs to health re, hog allowanc and fay separatn pay. The move ltle more than a month after the Supreme Court stck down the Defense of Marriage Act, which Defense Department lears have said prevented them om offerg feral marriage benefs to gay troops.
Thirteen stat and the District of Columbia currently allow gay marriag. Troops si the Uned Stat but statned more than 100 om a state that allows gay marriage will have seven days. Gay troops who are already legally married uld see retroactive benefs back to June 26, the date of the Supreme Court cisn.
GAY SPO OF MEMBERS OF MILARY GET BENEFS
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Sce the ary’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” law was repealed 2011, gay rights advot have phed for extensn of the married uple benefs to same-sex troops, argug that the policy still amounted to discrimatn the ranks. Mark Mazzone, spokman for the ary LGBT advocy group SPART*A, said the chang will be a fancial boost to many same-sex upl th far prived of equal benefs, and the leave time for travel to stat that allow same-sex marriage show the ary is mted to reachg out to gay troops.
SAME-SEX MARRIAGE NOW LEGAL FOR GAY MILARY COUPL ALL 50 STAT
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The chang apply only to “legally married same-sex upl” and not gay troops who have state-backed civil unns. Back then, the US ary did not regnize out gay and lbian service – and certaly did not regnize gay subjected LGBT ary upl to the merci of plex burecraci – and, Nelson's se, visa, ctoms and immigratn thori – that never imperiled straight had overstayed his 90-day visa Germany.
GAY, LBIAN SPO TO GA FULL BENEFS
Ls than two months after the US supreme urt stck down a feral law fg marriage as a unn between a man and a woman, the Pentagon on Wednday unveiled a sweepg set of chang that extend to gay spo the same benefs available to straight on.