Last week Michigan's state supreme court, upholding lower-court rulings, held that a 2004 constitutional ban on gay marriage means that state employers can't offer health insurance and other partner benefits to gay employees.
You may recall that conservatives insisted that their broadly written amendment was aimed only at same-sex marriage, not at taking away employment benefits. And that, as soon as the amendment passed, they set about taking away employment benefits. "A classic bait and switch."
But to what end? Turns out that Michigan's public universities preemptively circumvented the ruling not by shutting down partner benefits but by extending them even more broadly, to spouses and "other qualified adults"-i.e., financially interdependent cohabitants.
It's one more example of a fact that same-sex marriage opponents will not address, or even acknowledge: The real-world alternative to recognizing gay unions isn't recognizing nothing, it's recognizing everything.
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Charles Wilson the racist, now eaxctly what part of
“…Charles Wilson’s behavior on this board has been atrocious.”
didn’t you get?
Wow, Michigan Matt, now you’re quoting your sockpuppet/squire. Priya didn’t make the statement. “Patrick” did. Can you ever tell the truth about anything? Ha!
Charles, that was stated by me. I am not the “Patrick” who also has been posting here.
I’m not anyone’s sockpuppet here. And if you have read my comments in the past month, you’d see many of my opinions differ from MichiganMatt and Patrick.
Usually, I stay out of it when people don’t play nice, but your behavior has gone well over the line.
Anyway, why not just cut the bad behavior and try being a civil contributor here. Okay?
Charles, I would think you could get at least this little bit correct.
Priya Lynn didn’t say that, it was Pat -as noted above. Pat is no one’s sockpuppet… independent, thoughtful and balanced would better describe Pat; not sockpuppet in any way, shape or form. And, I’d add, decent and civil.
On top of all that, I didn’t say Priya Lynn made that comment… where you read that is a certainly a mystery to us all.
But you go gurl… incorrect, shooting blanks… it’s all about you, Charles.
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