Ethics

Gay Diplomats Get Equality

By Ed Brayton

Here's one good thing the Obama administration is doing, giving equal rights and benefits to gay diplomats representing the US around the world.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will soon announce that gay American diplomats will be given benefits similar to those that their heterosexual counterparts enjoy, U.S. officials said Saturday.

In a notice to be sent soon to State Department employees, Clinton says regulations that denied same-sex couples and their families the same rights and privileges that straight diplomats enjoyed are "unfair and must end," as they harm U.S. diplomacy.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on May 30, 2009 (boomark / email).