Domestic Partner Discrimination

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This paper takes a look at legislation in several states regarding same-sex marriage and argues that the current Bush administration's stance on same-sex marriages has prompted it to attempt to legislate against equal employment rights-health care, pensions and so on-for all citizens.

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"One might almost view the current situation in employment legislation regarding same-sex marriage (or domestic partnerships or civil unions) as a mirror of the 2004 presidential election returns map. Generally speaking, the 'blue' states are working, however slowly and in whatever sort of patchwork, to extend employment benefits to domestic partners, the same ones enjoyed by partners in traditional marriages. The 'red' states are generally enacting legislation that not only disenfranchises those partnerships from employee benefits-insurance and pension plans-but also arguably are creating de facto or de jure government-authorized discrimination against those whose living and romantic arrangements with another human being were not recognized by a church or a government. Of course, some churches do recognize domestic partnerships; to prevent this recognition from affecting the course of various civil rights, many states have failed to recognize what those churches recognize."

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