US to allow LGBT refugees to bring partners with them

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http://www.lesbiannews.com/us-to-allow-lgbt-refugees-to-bring-partners-with-them/

Even as the world deals with the massive influx of Syrian refugees from the troubled Middle East, the US government is quietly ensuring LGBT refugees allowed into the country can bring their same-sex partners as well, even if they aren’t legally married.

In its latest update to Congress, the State Department’s Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration said their new policy will help LGBT people seeking asylum in the US by giving a new interpretation to the word “spouse”, i.e. partners of same-sex refugees.

“The legal definition of ‘spouse’ remains unchanged,” State Department spokesperson Elizabeth Trudeau told the Washington Blade.

“However, due to the administration’s recognition that marriage is not a legally viable option in many refugees’ countries of origin, we have granted access to the P-3 refugee family reunification process to the same-sex partners of LGBT individuals who do not have legal access to the institution of marriage in their home countries, provided that the refugee’s partner is otherwise admissible,” Trudeau added.

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1. The next sound you hear

will be RW heads exploding.

[KamaAina]

2. Because so many fundie jihadists are LGBT

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4. At least one of them was ...allegedly

http://nypost.com/2015/11/22/missing-paris-attacker-loved-gay-bars-and-playstation/

The missing Paris jihadist had a taste for gay sex, drugs and PlayStation.

As the international manhunt for 26-year-old Belgian Salah Abdeslam continued, patrons of a gay bar in Brussels told The Sunday Times of London that he was a regular there — known for boozing, smoking hash and flirting with other men.

“We had him down as a rent boy,” a bartender named Julien said of Abdeslam, who’s been on the run since the Nov. 13 attacks on Paris.

Others said he was known for long days playing video games in the bar owned by his killed terrorist brother Brahim in the poor Brussels suburb of Molenbeek.

The brothers’ tastes

http://nypost.com/2015/11/22/missing-paris-attacker-loved-gay-bars-and-playstation/

And they have no problem banging boys

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3. That's good

The US can give refuge to LGTB people from countries that persecute them and does.