{"id":27006,"date":"2011-10-14T06:19:16","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T10:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=27006"},"modified":"2011-10-14T06:31:47","modified_gmt":"2011-10-14T10:31:47","slug":"gay-veteran-sues-for-wifes-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27006","title":{"rendered":"Gay veteran sues for “wife’s” benefits"},"content":{"rendered":"

I guess it was inevitable. Old Trooper and jerry920 send us a link to an article<\/a> about a lesbian veteran who has decided to sue the VA to get VA benefits for her “wife”. I’m not even sure if the veteran can be called a “disabled veteran”, because according to the article, her condition didn’t occur until after she was discharged;<\/p>\n

Cardona, who maintained aircraft during her years of service, applied for and began receiving military-connected disability compensation from the VA for carpal tunnel syndrome, which she developed as a result of her duties following her honorable discharge in 2000. The Puerto Rican native is still able to work and subsequently became a correction officer in Connecticut; she currently works at the York Correctional Institution in Niantic.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, she says it’s not about the money;<\/p>\n

“We could use the help to pay our mortgage, but this is not only about the money,” Cardona’s statement continued. “President Obama is right that [the Defense of Marriage Act] discriminates against gay and lesbian people. There are many other veterans out there just like me. I am standing up and asking to be treated equally in part to let others know they are not alone.”\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeh, way to stick up for fellow veterans who are in danger of losing their benefits by nickels and dimes. Let’s just expand the pool of non-veterans to pay out from our shrinking stack of cash. And this wouldn’t open the system up for fraud or abuse at all, would it? All so gay veterans can feel accepted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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