Domestic Partnerships

Thanks to Daou Report for this.

One of the egregious examples of the second class treatment of same-sex partnerships will be battled in the New York State of Appeals Court. Lambda Legal will be arguing for the surviving partner of a flight attendant that died on board American Airlines Flight 587.

The couple had been together for 21 years, had set up elaborate financial agreements to care for each other, and had been among the first to register as domestic partners in New York State when the option became available in 1994. In 2003 the plaintiff was denied benefits because he failed to produce a marriage certificate.

This is why marriage should be separated from Church and State. If the many church organizations want to deny some people the ability to have a partnership within their organization, fine let `em. But the State should dis-associate itself from the supposed 'moral' dilemma by treating partnership as a legal agreement.

If you get married with the Justice of the Peace, it is completely non-sectarian and should have all the benefits under the law. It's not going to impact little Timmy or little Debbie any more if we have same-sex marriages, oops, partnerships than the inter-racial marriages now logical and legal in our land.

Geez, people . . . get over it!!! What are you suppressing???