Comments on: Senate hearing on domestic partner benefits

By: David

David — Wed, 27 May 2009 13:15:48 +0000

The bill in the House is not H.R.4838, it’s H.R.2517.

By: Tami Williams

Tami Williams — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 14:02:36 +0000

This is a great step in the right direction. My partner and myself are Fed.Employees and we have a 9yr. son, she has just recieved a transfer and at this point our family is divided due to lack of partnership benefits. I hope something will really come of this.

By: Morgan

Morgan — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:22:04 +0000

Opinionator,
sorry, civil unions are currenly nice, but highly ignored, by employers, insurance companies. but the only currency the entire world understands is marriage and only marriage is portable around the world. As it stands in the real world, even civil unions are not fully respected in the states where enacted and you are like a fish floundering out of water out of its supportive environment if you wil. Same with civil unions, the instant you and your partner step put your two feet outside of your civil union state and crows the border into a neighboring non-civll union state, you and your partner’s relationship is no longer recognized and you are as “legal strangers to each other”.

Foreign countries mostly understand marriages not civil unions.

Sorry, but your idea of changing all marriages inro civil unions will not work. And noone will for having his or her marriage relabeled without their consent into an inferior civil union status wihtout lausuits and huge amounts of anger.

Not workable.

By: losangelbear

losangelbear — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:22:49 +0000

mommy, are those people spies…?

By: Opinionator

Opinionator — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 23:09:04 +0000

If you want to get rid of vermin, take away their place to live.

Guy in SF said:
“This could be accomplished by repealing DOMA and would have a much greater positive effect for all Americans and not just Federal employees.”

Perhaps if Proposition 8 in California and Proposition 2 in Florida are defeated, and then a major “class-action” court case to the Supreme court from some other state, and the Supreme Court decides in favor of same-sex marriage. That will take a long long time because the courts work so slow.

I think we need the federal domestic partner benefits nationwide right now until the courts decide in our favor. It will put pressure on the states to repeal their anti-same-sex measures.

Better yet, since marriage is merely a “federally-regulated” contract (since the late 1923), perhaps we need to make all states change marriage to a civil union, and let the religious bigots keep the name “marriage”.

And guess what will happen, everyone will call their “civil union” contract “marriage”, because it is easier to say, and the whole situation is diffused.

By: Ty

Ty — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 22:29:45 +0000

My benefits here at work (for a government contractor) define a “spouse” per DOMA. I receive no benefits for my husband. If the federal employees start receiving benefits, perhaps someday I will.

By: Guy in SF

Guy in SF — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 22:22:43 +0000

This could be accomplished by repealing DOMA and would have a much greater positive effect for all Americans and not just Federal employees.

By: BJ Lincoln

BJ Lincoln — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 22:12:35 +0000

If it looks like a bone, smells like a bone,and tastes like a bone, it’s a bone. It will get buried like all the others.

By: Lincoln

Lincoln — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 22:09:43 +0000

If it looks like a bone, smells like a bone,tastes like a bone, it is only a bone. IT will get buried.

By: ADF Alliance Alert » U.S. “Senate hearing on domestic partner benefits”

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 22:08:13 +0000

[...] 365Gay.com reports: The Senate held its first-ever hearing Wednesday on the issue of partner benefits for federal employees. The landmark hearing was called by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and titled “Domestic Partner Benefits for Federal Employees: Fair Policy and Good Business.” It was coordinated by Committee Chair Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) and Ranking Member Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME). [...]