Questions about the anti-same -sex marriage amendment

[Slyder]

Will the proposed anti-same-sex marriage amendment affect straight couples living together "without benefit of clergy"? Will it affect businesses offering employees domestic partner benefits? Will it affect domestic violence issues, like it is in Ohio? Will it affect a business like Sprint which offers such benefits? Will it affect such a business' willingness to do business in Kansas? Could the amendment have a really bad effect on Kansas' economic health?

For instance, were Sprint to move out of Johnson County, the currently inflated price of homes would crash and all those folks with very little equity would be up the crick! And so the dominoes. However much you might hate Johnson County, it is the state's economic engine.

My experience tells me that the Religious Right is in favor of morality as long as it doesn't cost them anything and such an amendment might have unintended consequences and costs.

Has anyone thought of this?

[atommom]

1. Have you seen this story? Some businesses are already concerned.

The Kansas proposal, besides defining marriage, would declare that the state shall recognize no other relationship as "entitling the parties to the rights or incidents of marriage." The proposal is before the House, and supporters hope for a statewide vote April 5.
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In Kansas, critics suggest a proposal adopted by the Senate to amend the state Constitution to ban same-sex marriage -- as well as civil unions and other legal recognition for gay couples -- is broad enough to affect private companies and unmarried heterosexual couples sharing health insurance.
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Sen. John Vratil, an attorney who opposes the amendment, said he believes private companies could still offer domestic partner benefits if voters amended the constitution but, "That could have a chilling effect."

http://www.ljworld.com/section/gaymarriage/story/193268

I don't know what will become of the amendment. It seems to me to be unnecessary and wrongheaded, but it could be that only the threat of economic loss will convince Kansas to give up on it.

[pstokely]

2. Sprint will probably move after the merger is completed

no matter what