Gays at Globe told to marry or lose benefits

Boston Herald ^ | July 8, 2006 | Jesse Noyes

[Grampa Dave]

The Boston Globe is owned by the Ny Slimes.

So your question is very valid.


Lets expand it a little:

"Is the Ny Slimes now telling all of its multitudes of homosexual employees across the country that they must get married to have health insurance?"

Wouldn't it be great to see a gay cat fight with the Ny Slimes across the nation with the various newspapers, tv stations and whatever else the Ny Slimes owns.

Gay lawyers and the ACLU will be very concerned if the Ny Slimes maintains wide open health insurance for gays in NYC working for the Slimes and shuts it down unless they are married in Masshole and other states.

[ConservativeStatement]

I can't get enough of the junior senator from MA saying "Can I get me a huntin' license here?" What a dope.

[ConservativeStatement]

I am not sure about the mutual policies but the NYT and Globe are under the same ownership. The Globe's editorial page has the tag line "A New York Times Company Newspaper."

Ironically, in yesterday's editorial cartoon in the Globe there is a drawing of a man/woman in bed with the man criticizing the thought of gay marriage. The Globe's sketch is titled "Contest Time: Be the 1st Couple to Show that Gay Marriage Has Hurt Your Marriage!!"

The Globe has become a one-trick pony.

[Milhous]

"Is the Ny Slimes now telling all of its multitudes of homosexual employees across the country that they must get married to have health insurance?"

Our trendy Old Grey Hag may want to start a new corporate movement to ultimately "prove" that domestic partners need the same rules for support as do married couples. Our Hag's benefits ploy seems to package the unfairness of it all into an easily understood argument with a simple solution: gay marriage in all 50 states.

“There is a trend towards doing what the Globe did,” he said. “A number of employers have taken the position that now that same-sex marriage is an option there is no longer a need to offer domestic partner benefits.”

[Howlin]

“A number of employers have taken the position that now that same-sex marriage is an option there is no longer a need to offer domestic partner benefits.”

Talk about being biten on the butt, huh?

[Grampa Dave]

"Talk about being biten on the butt, huh?"

No Comment from here. BOL!

[okie01]

Insightful post.

My wife just observed that you have described the life pattern of "a sixties and seventies-type heterosexual turned homosexual".

The same appetites, the same promiscuity, different gender.

[Tired of Taxes]

it was just too obvious how inherently screwed up gay relationships are in the first place. There is no end point, no destination. No white picket fence and 2.5 kids. It's just sex and companionship: not the sturdy stock of family-building.

Absolutely. That's why there's really no reason to recognize them as legally married. Even when a man and woman aren't planning to have children, a pregnancy could still result, and it's important to legally recognize that family unit to keep it intact.

But one guy isn't going to make another guy pregnant.

[gidget7]

You must be a good friend to listen to all that. I know I couldn't!

You are right of course, in you summation. I have never met a homosexual who was totally committed to one partner. For some reason, they don't believe in the whole concept of "cheating", it doesn't exist, until feelings get hurt over it, or one of them leaves.

[gidget7]

Exactly! I believe of MA residents it's more like 5. something, less than 6 percent. Others are from outside MA. As many have said time and time again, it's not about marriage, it about legitimizing and encouraging the unhealthy lifestyle.

[Tired of Taxes]

Exactly. Some guy on another forum was debating with me on this issue. He pointed to a blog (that I guess they're all passing around) claiming married couples have something like 350 benefits same-sex couples aren't allowed to have. The blog linked to a gov't site supposedly listing those benefits.

I asked the guy if he even bothered to read the gov't site. The so-called "benefits" were mostly responsibilities, even outlining how married couples would be penalized while live-togethers qualified for more freebies.

[HostileTerritory]

But the gay community still want to retain their right for domestic partner benefits without having to be tied up to a marriage contract that gets messy when you break it.

Um, did any gay employee at the Globe actually say this wasn't fair? You're doing some extrapolating there from nothing.

My company did the same thing this year in Massachusetts, and the few people getting DP benefits had all gotten married so they were unaffected.

[devolve]

Is not "palimony" already an established legal precedent for men and women?

I'm now trying to recall the name of that big palimo(a)ny lawyer who has gotten monsterous settlements for livein ladies.....

In Messychewsetts where marriage is legal for homosexual couples would this not possibly be a huge problemo?

While we are on the subject - if the radicals keep insisting on more perks and less responsibilities - Could a frisky Arabian mare from Palo Verde, California sue an golden Palamino stallion meanie for "Palamino palimony" in Golden, Colorado to get a little green before she gets put out to pasture?

[VOA]

So - first you are not allowed to get married - now you are ordered too?

If the gays of The Globe thinks that's tough...
wait till the managment gets crazy like Himmler did with the
SS.
And orders them to start making babies!
(on their own: Mission Impossible)

[VOA]

Now companies are using the gay marriage law to limit the number of pigs
feeding at their trough. In other words, if you want to act like married
people, get married. As someone above said, be careful what you ask for.

So well put, it had to be repeated!

[potlatch]

[devolve]

The horsefly is a nice touch

[potlatch]

Those two were definitely put out to pasture. They kindof look like the first horse we bought the kids 'to learn on'. She was named, "Beauty", lol.

[maine-iac7]

If the gays of The Globe thinks that's tough... wait till the managment gets crazy like Himmler did with the SS. And orders them to start making babies! (on their own: Mission Impossible)

s'cuse me a minute.

gotta get the Windex and wash the coffee off my screen