With an executive order giving benefits to the unmarried same-sex partners of Federal employees -- but not to similarly situated opposite-sex partners.

President Barack Obama, whose gay and lesbian supporters have grown frustrated with his slow movement on their priorities, is extending benefits to same-sex partners of federal employees, a White House official said.

Obama planned to announce his decision Wednesday in the Oval Office, the official said. The official spoke on the condition of anonymity because Obama had not signed a presidential memorandum putting his plan into place.

The decision is a political nod to a reliably Democratic voting bloc that has become impatient with the White House in recent weeks.

Fairness? Equality? No, just a payoff to another Democrat voting bloc -- and one that he has broken every single promise to in his time in office -- even though it means violating the clear intent of the federal DOMA to accomplish it.

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