Comments on: Arizona Cancels Health Care For Thousands

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Mombian » Blog Archive » Weekly Political Roundup — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 21:49:12 +0000

[...] Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R) has stripped domestic partner benefits from Arizona state employees, leaving approximately 800 people without health insurance, among other protections. [...]

By: Andrew Dykstra

Andrew Dykstra — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:37:14 +0000

The marriage of same-sex couples must be indistinguishable from the marriage of opposite-sex couples under the law.
Anything that tends to make them distinguishable from each other permits them to be treated differently.

Domestic partnership is not the same as marriage and can be treated differently, (read “less”).

If you are opposed to same-sex marriage, don’t marry someone of the same sex, but do not prevent others who dream of doing so.

America was never a country who tried to squash dreams.

By: paul j stein

paul j stein — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 15:27:05 +0000

The TRUTH is it all comes down to the $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$. NOT religion! Cheap LYING BASTARDS !

By: Timothy Kincaid

Timothy Kincaid — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:45:09 +0000

Mark,

I may be mistaken, but I believe that if a CA Company pays for heterosexual spouse insurance, they can’t refuse to pay for same-sex spouse/DP insurance.

Fair is when heteros and gays are treated the same.

By: Mark F.

Mark F. — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:36:17 +0000

Most or all businesses in CA are required to offer spouse/domestic partner health insurance if they offer it to their employees, but they are not required to pay for it. The state of AZ could have continued to offer insurance for spouses and domestic partners, but required employees to pay for it themselves. Maybe not the ideal situation, but it would at least be fair.

By: Timothy Kincaid

Timothy Kincaid — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:28:42 +0000

Well of course. Gay folk get the “special right” of giving up health insurance so that heterosexuals don’t have to.

It’s things like this that drive me up the wall. Some day society will look back and see this for exactly what it is, heterosexism at it’s plainest. They would NEVER ask their hetero employees to accept such a cut.

By: Leonard Drake

Leonard Drake — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 23:56:19 +0000

As a citizen of the State of Arizona, I am disgusted by this. I am, however, not surprised in the slightest. This reminds me of what Jennifer Grandholm (sp?) of Michigan did — albeit with her hand forced — on a much larger scale after the anti same-sex marriage amendment passed in her state.

The original statements and the actual intentions of those behind these anti-gay measures are NEVER equal.

By: Burr

Burr — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 23:50:34 +0000

And once again “separate but equal” shows its true colors.

Consider how the budget still isn’t balanced and this was probably pennies compared to other wasteful spending, the only rationale behind this is malice.