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The OP states the city extended benefits to unmarried same sex couples that weren't extended to unmarried hetero couples. My question was how they got away with that sort of discrimination?
Heterosexual couples could get those same benefits if they were married. same sex couples were not allowed to get married.
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Because same sex couples were not allowed to get married while hetero couples were allowed to get married.
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Heterosexual couples could get those same benefits if they were married. same sex couples were not allowed to get married.
Is this really a case of anything but two wrongs allegedly making a right? I understand what you're saying, what I don't understand is why I've never heard of law suits by hetero couples challenging their right to the same benefits as other unmarried couples received.
Just read an article in my local paper that the City council will vote to end the extension of benefits to same sex unmarried couples. Same sex couples wanting to cover a partner will have to marry in order to do so. The city says since they don't offer benefits to unmarried heterosexual couples, it would be inequitable to continue to offer this benefit to same sex couples. I think we'll see more and more municipalities and companies making this change now that same sex marriage is legal in the entire country.
I support gay marriage, and this makes sense to me. Now that gays can get married, why have a special class of benefits just for them? Made sense when they couldn't marry....makes no sense now.
When I use the term 'they' I am referring to the GBLT group collectively.
They are working towards being in their own protected 'CLASS' so as to make their lifestyle more accepted.... as well as giving them rights that others not in that group do not currently have.
Is this really a case of anything but two wrongs allegedly making a right? I understand what you're saying, what I don't understand is why I've never heard of law suits by hetero couples challenging their right to the same benefits as other unmarried couples received.
Heteros had the same rights. You did not have to be gay to have a same sex domestic partner.
But the OP claims those very same benefits weren't extended to hetero couples. How'd they make that fly? Something just doesn't sound right here.
Benefits for gay 'domestic partners' wasn't at all unusual. Before ssm became legal in CT., gay state employees who met certain criteria received benefits as though they were married. Similar laws existed in plenty of cities and among many large private employers.
The theory was that a hetero person could marry virtually any opposite sex person of their choice , but gays could not marry any same sex person. I don't recall the specific standards for a same sex couple to qualify, but it as simple as merely declaring 'we're partners.'
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Benefits for gay 'domestic partners' wasn't at all unusual. Before ssm became legal in CT., gay state employees who met certain criteria received benefits as though they were married. Similar laws existed in plenty of cities and among many large private employers.
The theory was that a hetero person could marry virtually any opposite sex person of their choice , but gays could not marry any same sex person. I don't recall the specific standards for a same sex couple to qualify, but it as simple as merely declaring 'we're partners.'
I've never heard of this, probably because it never affected me. Still seems to me like something that would've been frequently challenged by hetero couples who didn't feel the need to ask either the state or a religion to bless their relationship.
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