i am stunned... i worked for Corning for years and they always bent over backwards for the FDRQ this is a good thing
Posted on 07/09/2011 1:01:31 PM PDT by lbryce
Now that same-sex marriage has been legalized in New York, at least a few large companies are requiring their employees to tie the knot if they want their partners to qualify for health insurance.
Should companies require gay employees to marry if they want health coverage for their same-sex partners?
Corning, I.B.M. and Raytheon all provide domestic partner benefits to employees with same-sex partners in states where they cannot marry. But now that they can legally wed in New York, five other states and the District of Columbia, they will be required to do so if they want their partner to be covered for a routine checkup or a root canal.
On the surface, this appears to put the couples on an even footing with heterosexual married couples. After all, this is precisely what they have been fighting for: being treated as a spouse. But some gay and lesbian advocates are arguing that the change may have come too soon: some couples may face complications, since their unions are not recognized by the federal government.
“Even with the complications, many people will want to get married for the reasons people want to get married,” said Ross D. Levi, executive director of the Empire State Pride Agenda. “But from our perspective, to hinge something as important as insurance for your family to what is still a complicated legal matter for same-sex couples doesn’t seem to be a fair thing to do.”
He said that there were a variety of reasons — legal, financial and personal — that companies should keep the domestic partnership option at least until gay marriage was recognized at the federal level. Legally speaking, getting married could create immigration issues or it could potentially muddy the process of adopting a child.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Mandatory jail time, you say? Hmmmm. Guess what happens a lot in jails? Mmmmmm... So both partners might have a good time!
Yeah, that was what I thought. Before the advent of these same-sex partnerships, you could never get your shack-up babe's root canal paid for by insurance. You paid for that sort of thing out of pocket, like her apartment.
I've wondered about this. Same-sex "partners" have been getting benefits that opposite-sex partners have been been allowed because they have an opportunity.
More companies will start this as a cost-saving move.
BTW, I always had a proper plan for shack-up babes: You have to have your own job with bennies. No freeloaders. I did that one time, and I felt soiled.
:^)
Much of the support for toleration for homosexuality rests on the idea that homosexual partnerships are more or less like heterosexual dating relationships and engagements, except that the partners can't legally “tie the knot.” That simply is not true. While we have a major problem with divorce in America, homosexual bed-hopping is much, much worse.
Maybe we can now get positive proof from court records of what has been an open secret for a long time — promiscuity is rampant among male homosexuals, and there will be a serious cost to society in allowing “gay marriage.”
This could get interesting, and might just be a blessing in disguise.
Even if not recognized by Feds, these people are no better or worse off, by getting married but they would be fulfilling their responsibilities in the states that do recognize their marriage. To do otherwise smacks of trying to get away with something.
I always wondered what prevented someone with a “domestic partner” from being married and having a 2nd wife who was their “domestic partner”.
Hey, hey! They’re not a flock.
““Corning, I.B.M. and Raytheon all provide domestic partner benefits to employees with same-sex partners in states where they cannot marry. But now that they can legally wed in New York, five other states and the District of Columbia, they will be required to do so if they want their partner to be covered for a routine checkup or a root canal.”
That seems reasonable.”
If I were seriously interested in addressing the rising costs of Heath-care, I would outlaw health insurance.
I can't wait for "Gay Divorce Court" it will be a hoot.
The next thing they’ll try to get is the elimination of adultery as grounds for divorce.
You’re right. They will never be satisfied because what they want is to be considered normal. This is impossible. By definition, they are deviants.
Alimony will be interesting... wait, who gets HALF!
It’s gonna take a Solomon of a judge to parse the Subaru/Miata gap. Oh my.
It’s going to be extremely complicated. Gay men change partners about every full moon or less, so they’re obviously going to have to decide on the legal implications of marriage and work out the cost/benefit analysis.
There needs to be some clarity about homosexual male relationships. There’s a larger degree of concern about whether your significant other is faithful to you in the traditional marriage than in homosexual relationships. In fact, trends have shown that homosexual men often can stay in their domestic relationships for some time while cheating on their partner with other men. It happens more often than you think.
i am stunned... i worked for Corning for years and they always bent over backwards for the FDRQ this is a good thing
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They want all the reward without any of the sacrifice, all the benefits without any of the responsibilities. They take selfishness and self centeredness to the extreme. The terms perverse and disordered cover more than their choice of sexual acrobatics
Any “loss” that sodomites realize to their egotistical little lives will be a fair trade for their true goal: the destruction of the Judeo/Christian values of this nation and the ultimate ability to persecute Christians to prison and death. No, not an exaggeration.
Oh please get Judge Judy on it— she’s devastatingly witty with normal people!
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