Suit Filed To Protect Gay Benefits

And they say that bans on same sex marriage won’t effect current benefits given to same sex partners...

Many of the states who passed amendments to their state constitutions last November stated that it was only to prevent same sex partners from getting married. Now we are finding that it goes farther than that. In Michigan for example, the attorney general is saying that cities and government entities will not be able to provide benefits to same sex partners because it violats the terms of the amendment.

Surprise surprise. This was the intention all along. They just didn’t want to say it at the time because it might look as if they were mean spirited. And they say we have an agenda.

(Detroit, Michigan) A lawsuit was filed Monday in Detroit aimed at blocking attempts to use Michigan’s ban on gay marriage from being used to deny benefits to same-sex partners.

The suit, filed by the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan, asks the court to declare that the amendment passed by voters last November, does not prohibit domestic partnership benefits offered by public employers.

Last week, Michigan’s attorney general issued a legal opinion saying cities and other government entities won’t be able to provide benefits for same-sex partners of employees in future contracts because it would violate the terms of the amendment. (source)