So they give a break to gay couples that they don't give to straight couples.
Posted on 04/08/2008 2:19:41 PM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
The Town of Ithaca is the second municipality in the county to establish a domestic partnership registry for same- and opposite-sex unmarried partners.
Town Clerk Karen Billings [said] the registry has been available for less than a month and though no couples have registered yet, Billings said that in the two days after an announcement of the registry ran in the town newsletter, the town clerk's office fielded “at least four calls.”
“It was done as a way to give recognition to couples that couldn't legally be married,” Holcomb said. “We were somewhat limited in how we could provide that because we could only mandate certain actions for the city workforce, such as making partners eligible for health insurance benefits, or offering husband and wife rates for domestic partners at the golf course and little things like that.”
Both the city and the Town of Ithaca make benefits like health and dental insurance available to married and unmarried partners of their employees.
Both registries require proof of identity from each partner and proof of co-dependency, such as a utility bill, lease or mortgage in both names, or proof that partners are designated as beneficiaries on each other's life insurance.
The fee to register in the town of Ithaca is $20. In the city it's $25.
Marriage licenses in both municipalities cost $40. “We want it to reflect that it's still not a marriage license," [City Clerk Julie Conley Holcomb.] said. "And we're still in favor of same-sex marriages, so you do get a small break.”
So they give a break to gay couples that they don't give to straight couples.
Hellmouth of the Finger Lakes.
Petty feelgood symbolism, makework for the bureaucrats, and a few sheckels for the town till: win win win, from their perspective.
didn't "co-dependency" used to be a problem psychological condition ?
This will make it easier to round them up when the time comes!
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Ithaca seems to be creating their own version of hell.
Would they also have to declare which one is the "enabler," or would that qualify as t.m.i. ?
Gays want Civil Rights on a par with Blacks but don’t want to be counted on the Census as such because the true number of how small their actual population is will take away thier political clout.
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