Posted on 09/07/2007 10:32:55 AM PDT by sportutegrl
HARRISBURG - For Joan Procito, the only thing separating her from anyone else in a legally recognized marriage is a piece of paper.
But it's precisely that document - a marriage license - that has led the former Drexel Hill resident to Commonwealth Court. Her case once again raises the question of whether same-sex couples in long-term, committed relationships are entitled to some of the same benefits that heterosexual married couples enjoy.
In Procito's case, the benefit she is seeking is unemployment compensation, which she was denied after she quit her job last year to follow her partner of eight years to Florida.
The reason for the denial: She is not married.
Procito's rebuttal: She didn't have that option. Pennsylvania does not allow same-sex marriages.
"The decision was profoundly unfair and clearly erroneous," Procito's attorney, Katie Eyer, said at a hearing yesterday on the matter before a three-judge panel in Commonwealth Court.
Under Pennsylvania law, if people can show they have a necessary and compelling reason to leave their job, they could be eligible to collect unemployment benefits.
(Excerpt) Read more at philly.com ...
Reading the whole article it was explained that she is getting exactly what other unmarried couples would get in the same situation; only marriage allows for compensation in this case.
She should be prosecuted for filing a frivolous suit. She didn’t get laid off, she QUIT the job.
Should benefits also be extended to same-sex siblings and interspecies couples?
Mmmmmm, lesbians.
No.
Next question?
Stable, married, heterosexual couples create families. They are the very foundation of society. Countless sociological studies have conclusively proven that husband-wife-children families are very, very important to the long-term health of society.
"Progressive", leftist daydreams cannot alter reality. Society has a deeply vested interest in protecting and promoting the traditional family.
madness=liberalism. Let liberals create laws for any length of time, and they will come up with some of the most twisted, illogical, brain-dead legalisms ever seen.
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