Date: Tue, 13 Jun 95 11:38:17 HST
From: ramsey@math.hawaii.edu (Tom Ramsey)
Subject: U.S. FOREST SERVICE

		U.S. FOREST SERVICE DP BENEFITS
		     DRAW CRITICISM

	In the June 8 issue of the Washington Times
(the right wing daily for the District of Columbia),
various forest service employees were quoted as objecting
to plans by the U.S. Forest Service to extend some
benefits to domestic partners of employees (including
same-sex partners).  These employees brought the plan
to the attention of the W'n Times. 

	This is one more example of why we need to push
for marriage.  Ultimately, marriage is easier to explain
as simple equality while anything else ends of being
special rights (and second class citizenship)---and the
anything else draws just as much fire from the Radical
Right.

	In the meantime, the U.S. Forest Service should
be encouraged.  Does anyone know who, or what organization,
is taking the lead on this?

			Best Regards,

			Tom Ramsey
			(at Clemson U. in S. Carolina
			for a week)

P.S.  Due to an error on my part, all mail to me was lost
between June 6 and June 11.  Please forgive  my failure
to respond to messages sent during those dates.  Aloha!