Feds defy order to provide same-sex benefits

San Francisco Chronicle: “The Obama administration refused Friday to follow a federal judge’s order to provide insurance benefits to the wife of a lesbian court employee in San Francisco and said its hands were tied by a discriminatory law.”

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