Switcheroo Times Two
IGF Culture Watch May 11 08
by Jonathan Rauch
Last week Michigan's state supreme court, upholding lower-court rulings, held that a 2004 constitutional ban on gay marriage means that state employers can't offer health insurance and other partner benefits to gay employees.
You may recall that conservatives insisted that their broadly written amendment was aimed only at same-sex marriage, not at taking away employment benefits. And that, as soon as the amendment passed, they set about taking away employment benefits. "A classic bait and switch."
But to what end? Turns out that Michigan's public universities preemptively circumvented the ruling not by shutting down partner benefits but by extending them even more broadly, to spouses and "other qualified adults"—i. Full story...
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Marriage Bans Win in Florida, Arizona (Leading in California)
IGF Culture Watch Nov 05 08
by Stephen H. Miller
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The get out the vote for Obama campaign, to which the LGBT beltway bandits contributed mightily, achieved its goal of bringing out record numbers of black and Hispanic voters, who heavily supported the anti-gay marriage amendments that unfortunately passed in Florida and Arizona.
The Forthcoming Rude Awakening
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by Stephen H. Miller
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