US to LGBT international foundation workers; "get married or get out".
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https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/u-s-partners-u-n-lgbtq-staff-get-married-or-n915611
The policy, announced earlier this year, ends a policy spearheaded by then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that allowed these same-sex partners to obtain a spousal visa, also known as the G-4 visa. Now, according to the new policy, the United States will issue a G-4 visa to a partner only if the couple is legally married.
That means that U.N., World Bank, and IMF staff from countries that do not recognize same-sex marriage face a stark choice: enter a relationship that could result in prison time back home, or abandon their relationship for their career.
A State Department spokesperson said in a statement that the change is “to help ensure and promote equal treatment” between straight and gay couples. Straight couples must be married to obtain a G-4 visa.
He held the flag guys, stop worrying.
a policy spearheaded by then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
Who is willing to bet that the only reason that the change was done due to it being Hillary's idea?
Right, how about getting rid of the stupid marriage rule for G4 visas? You don't have to be married to be in a committed relationship. Talk about stupid.
fucking excuse me do we live in the 1960s cause everything so far in this administration's run has been seemingly regressing to that point bit for bit like a morbid Benjamin Button
It's a win-win for the Trump Administration, they get to hate gays and Hillary at the same time.
And sadly with a regular administration this would be a bigger news item, but this is low on a long list of controversies and will probably go under the radar in favour of Kavanaugh, midterms, and Trump being a dick to reporters to shift attention away from whatever else he's up to.
The dreaded "Good ol' Times" that the GOP has been trying to return to since Reagan - when men were men, women were cute office eye candy, and minorities were stuck in their ghettos.
Ayy, come to Canada instead, boys and girls. We've got our problems but fuck if they aren't hundreds of times more sane than America's problems.
There's a great Twitter bot that converts Trump's Tweets into the traditional format and it's great to see Trump's shite through a normal lens to see how ridiculous it is. For example:
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/242634/e8868458-39c6-4b39-b24a-5b4a3216130d/image.png
Yo, Rob Ford is dead.
Don't remind me that his brother is Premier of Ontario and is trying to recreate the Trump Experiment there.
Yeah, I know. But still, a good friend of mine lives in Ontario and she told me all about how his brother won even with that stuff about his wife being Jewish but not really after offending a crowd of Jews.
Ironically those times were far more forward-facing than even now, and were hoping to eventually reach a paradigm like we had in the '90s (before 9/11 set us back a good twenty years socially and we've been continuing to reel further backward ever since). The actual pre-'60s era would be ashamed of how far we've regressed after all the progress we'd made. "You got that far and then threw it away because a washed-up Hollywood actor and his disciples told you to?!"
Republican Dwight Eisenhower signed the first civil rights bills and apointed Earl Warren to the Supreme Court, who was the reason we have desegregated schools, one man-one vote districts, and Miranda rights.
That comes across as a bit of a "but what about Lincoln?" argument. What matters is how the Republican party exists today.
That's the opposite of my intention, naught but 60 years ago Republicans were actually respectable, Eisenhower would be way left of the current GOP
Yeah I'm agreeing with you on that. No need to repeat it.
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