In case you missed the headlines – New York Daily News:
WASHINGTON — In an assertion of same-sex marriage rights, Attorney General Eric Holder is applying a landmark Supreme Court ruling to the Justice Department, announcing Saturday that same-sex spouses cannot be compelled to testify against each other, should be eligible to file for bankruptcy jointly and are entitled to the same rights and privileges as federal prison inmates in opposite-sex marriages.
Editorial comment – If civil unions are permitted, marriage or not, then laws and rights extended to any other legally joined couple should apply. What I am objecting to is the way this is being treated: “Government showers new rights and benefits on a protected class”, announced in the press as if Obama and his minions can create “rights” on a whim.