Rights
- Social Security
- Federal pensions and health benefits
- Joint filing of 1040
- All kinds of rights and tax credits for non-biological parents in jurisdictions where same-sex partners cannot do second-parent adoption
- Estate tax
- Rolling over an inherited IRA into the IRA of the surviving spouse
- Family and Medical Leave
- Immigration
- COBRA coverage
SOCIAL SECURITY?! I never thought about that!
Deportation proceedings in Manhattan were literally stopped today because the Supreme Court overturned DOMA!
שהחינו shehecheyanu … Who gave us life
וקימנו v’kiymanu and sustained us
והגיענו v’higi’anu and brought us
לזמן הזה la-zman ha-zeh! to this moment!
I’m still wrapping my mind around it. The Federal Government now must recognize that I’m married? That makes it REAL!
Morning Blessings for the New Year
September 18, 2020 by Rabbi Debora S. Gordon • HHD 5781, Prayer-Liturgy, Rabbi's Writings • Tags: High Holy Days, LGBTQIA, liturgy-prayer • 0 Comments
May you wake tomorrow morning, and every morning thereafter, to awareness and gratitude. May the new year be filled with good things for you and all you love. Circulate that around the world, and everyone and their beloved will be blessed.
May the Holy One, LIBERATION WORKER, move us to stretch and expand toward freedom.
May the AWAKENER, Life of all worlds, the GENEROUS CREATRIX, be a healing presence in all our lives.
May 5781 be a year in which we build each other up, hold each other up, dress each other up, and expand the circle of safety, peace, justice, and love in our lives.
Blessed are You, FABULOUS ONE, Who loves each of us just as we are.
Dori Midnight’s introduction and full text of the blessings is here, or below as it appeared on Facebook where I first found it: