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underbear1
For anyone that thought these anti-gay marriage initiatives were ONLY about marriage,..........not so much.
They will strip away EVERY gain of the LGBT community since 1969. mad.gif



http://www.365gay.com/newscon04/12/120204michBens.htm


(Lansing, Michigan) Gov. Jennifer Granholm will remove same-sex partner benefits from contracts negotiated with state workers, said an aide, citing a voter-approved amendment to the Michigan Constitution that bans gay marriage "and similar unions."
Michigan voters approved the amendment Nov. 2.
Granholm aide David Fink said that negotiated contracts scheduled for adoption by the state Civil Service Commission on Dec. 15 will be stripped of the same-sex domestic partner benefits.
The Judged
Also, be advised that the anti-union movement has just started their locomotive engine and will be speeding through your town USA real soon! The purge has already begun!

In two years, it may be illegal to organize labor if management objects to it. Unions may already be dead, but just don't realize it.

Thanks to all those Republican union members that see no competing and contradicting interests between their political votes and their abilitiy to earn a living!
Insensitive
This is so incredibly sad. Isn't michigan a blue state?
rox63
QUOTE(Insensitive @ Dec 2 2004, 06:00 PM)
This is so incredibly sad.  Isn't michigan a blue state?
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It's a purple state, but it usually ends up being just barely blue. Another urban/rural divide, with the cities going blue, and the rural areas going red.
PrdAmerican
Yyyep, and can't forget Virginia....I'm biting nails here in Washington....if Dino Rossi is indeed elected as govenor I can see a lot of the progress we have made here going down the drain, beginning with partner benefits.
darkblood
Well I'm in Texas, so I'm already up to my neck in it.

If Texas got to freely make their own laws, I imagine I'd be in jail on a meat hook by now.

Darkblood,
The bisexual Buddhist with a boyfriend, who's good at talking back.. especially when it's inappropriate
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