[sportutegrl]

Procito quits her job to be with her 'partner' who has moved to Florida and thinks she should get unemployment compensation. I don't think she should get compensation if she was married and left to be with her husband. This is madness.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

For Joan Procito, the only thing separating her from anyone else in a legally recognized marriage is a piece of paper.

Actually there is one more thing -- a partner who is of the opposite sex.

[linn37]

She needs to get a job and stop whining.

[paul51]

I don't think she should get compensation if she was married and left to be with her husband. This is madness.

My thoughts exactly

[jackibutterfly]

You don’t get unemployment if you quit, you get it when you’re let go - fired or laid off. Right?

[ClearCase_guy]

The reason for the denial: She is not married.
Procito's rebuttal: She didn't have that option.

Not true. She has the option to get married. She just can't marry the person she wants to marry.

This is also true for me - I'd like to marry Shania Twain (but she doesn't know me, that darn Mutt Lange is always hanging around, and my wife would kill me if she found out).

[Izzy Dunne]

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.

Huh?

If I quit my job to be with my wife in Florida, I wouldn't expect unemployment compensation.

That's not what it's for.

Not that that will stop the "discrimination" screamers.

[Ouderkirk]

Her case once again raises the question of whether same-sex couples sodomites in long-term, committed relationships are entitled to some of the same benefits that heterosexual married couples enjoy.

Then explain to me why hetero couples are entitled to benefits like quitting a job and leaving the state to follow their spouse and expecting unemployment compensation. You would think that the sodomite's would do exactly as married couples would do and that one spouse would support the other until the other could find suitable employment.

[Anonymous Rex]

When you quit you don’t get unemployment, it’s that simple.

If you want to follow your skank to Florida you’d better make sure she can support you both.

[FormerLib]

Pennsylvania does not allow same-sex marriages.

Pennsylvania also does not allow sows' ears to be sold as silk purses nor does it allow pigs to enter air races.

[CharlesWayneCT]

I think I agree with you. I’m not sure why you should get unemployment simply because your spouse decides to move to another state.

I imagine though this was a “pro-family” feature of unemployment, designed to make it easier for a family to stay together if one member was required to transfer or had to go to another state to find work.

[50sDad]

Many heterosexuals consider themselves in “long-term, committed relationships”...and don’t get the benifits that MARRIED people do. Turn the page. Nothing to see here.

[IronJack]

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.

No, they're not.

[L98Fiero]

“I don’t think she should get compensation if she was married and left to be with her husband.”

I don’t think she should either, gay, straight, married or not. You can voluntarily quit your job and the state will pay you? Insane.

[SueRae]

She should be prosecuted for filing a frivolous suit. She didn’t get laid off, she QUIT the job.

[Neoliberalnot]

Should benefits also be extended to same-sex siblings and interspecies couples?

[FreedomFromGov]

Mmmmmm, lesbians.

[mngran]

I don't think she should get compensation if she was married and left to be with her husband. This is madness.

In many (if not most) states, a spouse is entitled to unemployment compensation if they have to quit a job to move with their spouse. It's designed to help keep families together while the one spouse looks for a new job in the new location. I think that's a good thing. Also, unemployment compensation is really like an insurance contract. You and your employer pay premiums each paycheck and you're entitled to certain stated benefits when certain situations arise. I don't have a problem with this spousal benefit being part of that contract. Whether non-married partners should receive that benefit is an entirely different question.

[TChris]

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.

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.

[driftless2]

"this is madness"

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.