Domestic Partnership Benefits & Obligations Act
For months, the House and Senate have been out of touch with Americans, and the introduction of a new domestic partner policy proves it. On December 19, shortly before the chambers recessed, members of both the House and Senate sponsored bills that would essentially invalidate the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). Under the new legislation government employees and their same-sex partners would be eligible to receive federal health and insurance benefits. The Domestic Partnership Benefits and Obligations Act, introduced in the Senate as S. 2521 by Sens. Joseph Lieberman (I-CN) and Gordon Smith (R-OR) and in the House as H.R. 4838 by Reps. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Chris Shays (R-CN), Harry Waxman (D-CA), and Tom Davis (R-Va.), would force taxpayers to subsidize a sexual lifestyle that a majority of them find morally objectionable.If congressional leaders believe that a new era of acceptance has dawned, they need only to look to their own home states, where efforts to enshrine traditional marriage into law are energizing voters as never before. In November, four states are gearing up to join the 27 that have already amended their constitutions to protect marriage as God intended it--as the union of one man and one woman. Two others expect a vote as early as next year. The only ones in denial of America's legislative priorities happen to be the leaders setting them. Help us deliver the reality check that Congress so desperately needs. Contact your representatives! and ask them to vote "no" on H.R. 4838 and S. 2521.
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Posted by Bill Smith at 11:00 PM - Post Link
4 Comments:
You are out of step with American values.
What does the comment by anonymous mean?
Do they mean that posting about the proposed law is out of step with Arkansas values. Or, that the proposed laws are out of step with Arkansas values. Or, that Arkansas values include granting benefits to same sex partners.
We do not know what anonymous meant. But we do believe that the Majority of Arkansas support marriage as between a man and a woman based on the passage of the Marriage Amendment and that they do not agree that taxpayers should subsidized benefits for same sex partners.
You are all a bunch of insensitive and un caring people! I've been in a very happy and comitted relationship for over 7 years now. My partner and I pay our taxes, own a house, cars, pay for individual health care, and more, and just because you think I'm causing the demise of the world, and am going to hell, doesn't give you any right to take away rights and other benefits that I deserve. I never have said that I don't beleive in a god or any religion, but you do not understand that religion needs to be left out of politics. I don't care if my legal relationship is called a marriage, domestic partnership, civil union, or whatever the hell you want to call it, but you don't care about other people or support basic American values and rights. I'm not around the corner looking at doing something to your children, and a majority of rape and child pornography is done by men looking for young girls. I have a great relationship with my family, brothers, and many more, and have even though of the possibility of creating my own family, but again, you think I'm going to be the dowfall of their lives and the downfall of society. Again, uncaring, insensitive, and very hateful to others is what you beleive in. I'm a happy person living here in the US with my partner, and are going to continue to be that, without the help of all of you people!
Same-sex marriage and domestic partnership is not the same thing. This article says Marriage is between 1 man and 1 woman. That bill isn't trying to change that. It is saying it can extend some rights, like hospital visitation, to other people WHILE allowing marriage to stay the institution that we are accustomed to it being.
Gay people have children, families, homes and responsibilities just like straight people. They should be allowed to visit eachother in ICU or have rights to the property they paid on together for 20 years. Domestic partnerships is a way to be fair to tax-paying Americans while maintaining that MARRIAGE is between man and woman.
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