With the election only a month away, it's not the best time to be stirring a hornet's nest.
The LGBTQ community is claiming that the new rule, is discriminatory to same sex couples, from countries where same sex marriage is not legal. Which is giving the resistance even more fuel to light up their base and get them to the ballot box.
As Reported by DML News and USA Today:
It comes despite the fact that the majority of countries do not recognize same-sex marriage and many same-sex couples face prosecution in their own countries.The shift was detailed in a memo circulated at the United Nations’ headquarters in New York last month. It gives the same-sex partners of foreign diplomats and United Nations workers until the end of the year to get married or leave the country.
Foreign Policy magazine, which first reported the story, estimated there are at least 10 current United Nations employees who would need to get married to get their partners’ visas renewed. It was not clear how many foreign diplomats and United Nations employees with pending U.S. posts will be affected by the policy change.
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