All posts tagged "Disparate Treatment"

Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK), the ranking minority member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, released a statement today expressing "great concern to [a Defense Department] policy issued on August 13, 2013, especially the intent to extend special uncharged leave benefits to same-sex partners and not to all military couples." He claims that Defense's proposal -- which would afford gay enlisted men and women a short administrative leave to travel to one of the 13 states in which same-sex marriage is legal -- will "create disparate treatment between same-sex and opposite-sex couples in our armed forces contrary to the Department’s stated policy."