Obama admin reportedly blocks lesbian from getting health benefits after judge ordered it

[babsbunny]

http://www.americablog.com/2009/11/obama-admin-reportedly-blocks-lesbian.html

by John Aravosis (DC) on 11/27/2009 11:40:00 AM

The Obama administration's Office of Personnel Management, run by an openly gay man, no less, reportedly intervened to stop a lesbian government official from getting health insurance, after a court had already ordered it to happen. Obama's OPM told Blue Cross not to provide benefits to the woman just as it was about to happen.

[crazyjoe]

1. there must be more to this story.........

[These Eyes]

2. Interesting how this story is written…

"Obama's OPM". Clearly, we should blame President Obama since he's directly responsible. :eyes:
What's the rest of the story? Something's missing.

[icymist]

3. Very interesting development. From the Time article:

By issuing such a stern challenge to the power of the Executive Branch, Kozinski managed to do what even the most sweeping state-court constitutional decisions on gay marriage have not: put the issue of equal treatment for gays to President Barack Obama in a way he will find hard to ignore. The unusual order is only incidentally about gay rights — the judge sidestepped the constitutional question about gays entirely — and is instead a fiery defense of the rights of the judiciary to manage its own employees. But if the Administration chooses to fight the order, it will have to tread carefully to avoid looking to gay-rights advocates like it is waging war in defense of a statute — the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) — that candidate Obama had said should be overturned.

From the Time article.