Employer Family health for Gays via West Hollywood's partner registry

[papau]

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-domestic1dec01.story
THE STATE
They're Not Wed, but They've Made It Official
Couples nationwide rely on West Hollywood's partner registry to get health benefits.
By Richard Fausset
Times Staff Writer

December 1, 2004

When Aimee Wilson asked about adding her gay partner to her corporate health insurance plan earlier this year, her employer told her it would be easy. All she had to do was get a government body to sanction the relationship.

But for Wilson, a resident of Frisco, Texas, that was going to require some fancy bureaucratic two-stepping, because the Lone Star State doesn't officially recognize same-sex partners.

Wilson found her solution 1,400 miles away at West Hollywood's City Hall, where, for a $25 fee, the clerk placed Wilson and her then-pregnant partner, Margaret Richmond, on the city's domestic partnership registry in March. The couple dropped their check and a notarized application in the mail. Richmond made the company's health insurance rolls in time to deliver twins.<snip>

Other governments that allow nonresident couples to register by mail include the city of Seattle and the states of Hawaii and California. The Golden State enacted its domestic partners law in 1999. A California secretary of state spokeswoman said the out-of-state provisions were necessary to extend pension benefits to former state employees who had moved elsewhere — and also to help non-Californians sign up for corporate health insurance benefits.<snip>

"What it illustrates is the reason why we need a federal solution to the issue of same-sex relationships," said Peter Sprigg of the Washington, D.C.-based Family Research Council, a conservative nonprofit. "Because when one municipality or state begins to legally recognize same-sex relationships, it affects other states — even those who have not chosen that as a public policy."<snip>
Since that time, however, many of the nation's employers have begun allowing domestic partners to register with their benefits plans — an idea that didn't seem feasible in the cultural climate of the 1980s, Heilman said. Today, nearly 40% of Fortune 500 companies offer such plans, according to the Human Rights Campaign, a gay advocacy group.<snip>

[WildClarySage]

1. And this is Sprigg's business because???

'"What it illustrates is the reason why we need a federal solution to the issue of same-sex relationships," said Peter Sprigg of the Washington, D.C.-based Family Research Council, a conservative nonprofit. "Because when one municipality or state begins to legally recognize same-sex relationships, it affects other states — even those who have not chosen that as a public policy."'

I suppose Mr Sprigg would prefer that families like Ms. Wilson's would go broke paying for health care and be thus dependent on social services which his taxes pay for?

[MountainLaurel]

2. What Mr. Sprigg wants

Is for families like Ms. Wilson's to go ahead and die due to lack of health care, since they're all eeeevil sinners anyway, and that would be gawd's retribution for their sin.