AFA Sues to Halt to Same-Sex Benefits

[ck4829]

A conservative group on Wednesday sued to stop Michigan State University from offering health insurance to the partners of gay and lesbian workers and said the school is violating the state constitution.

The American Family Association of Michigan hopes to get a ruling setting a precedent that would block domestic partner benefits at other state universities. Schools in the state that provide benefits to same-sex couples include the University of Michigan, Wayne State and Central Michigan.

Deborah Labelle, an attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan, said the suit is pointless because a state appeals court is already set to rule on the issue. She characterized attempts to strip benefits from same-sex partners as "mean-spirited."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/05/AR2006070501849.html

[annabanana]

1. a hate filled organization

with a hate filled agenda

masquerading as Christians...

[madfloridian]

2. My Florida legislator tried to get a law forbidding U of Florida from this

http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/sections/Representatives/details.aspx?MemberId=4276&SessionId=42

He is so tied to the religious community, the extremist bunch, that if we call his office we get a sermon on abortion being murder and gays wrong to choose that lifestyle.

They are totally close-minded in that office. I think they are very tied to the Will McBride who is running in the primaries against Katherine Harris. He is also tied to that bunch.

Not Bill McBride, Will McBride.

[terrya]

3. "mean-spirited" - yes, that's exactly right.

It's hate mongering once again from this organization of hate filled bigots.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

4. Blame the state of Michigan, not just the AFA

Mean-spirited, not to say ludicrous, as it is, that law *is* in the state constitution.

While I think that something like this fully justifies an outcry, that outcry ought to be "change the law", not "don't enforce the law".