GOP Wants to Deny Lesbian Veteran With MS Full Disability Benefits - Care2.com (blog)

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[**GOP Wants to Deny Lesbian Veteran With MS Full **Disability** Benefits**][3]
**Care2.com (blog)**
by Steve Williams The Republican House leadership has announced it will intervene in a Defense of Marriage Act lawsuit that challenges the federal ban's denial of full **disability** benefits for the spouse of a military veteran coping with MS.
[SPLC condemns House Republicans' intervention in disabled veteran's case][4]LGBTQ Nation
[Democrats Ask Beohner To Back Off His 'Direct Assault' On Gay Veterans][5]ThinkProgress
[Pelosi, Hoyer rebuke Boehner for defending DOMA in veteran case][6]Washington Blade

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