“Obama: More benefits for gay workers only one step”

AP: We all have to acknowledge this is only one step,” Obama said in the Oval Office, where he signed a memorandum that made incremental changes to benefits offered to the same-sex partners of gay federal employees.

The text of the memorandum is here: “Federal Benefits and Non-Discrimination”

Full text of Obama’s accompanying statement is available here.

A fact sheet on the memorandum was issued by the White House prior to the signing and in a press briefing (also prior to Obama’s statement) Press Secretary Robert Gibbs discussed the memorandum in the context of President Obama’s larger aim of repealing the federal DOMA.

MSNBC has video.

At The Volokh Conspiracy Dale Carpenter takes stock of the Obama administration’s apparent contradictions on same-sex “marriage.”