Domestic partners gain in Nevada

[garbon]

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/06/01/BAU317UJUO.DTL&feed=rss.bayarea

Nevada's Assembly voted Sunday evening to override Gov. Jim Gibbons' veto and to change state law so that domestic partners, whether gay or straight, have many of the rights and benefits that Nevada offers to married couples.

The Assembly's 28-14 vote - the bare two-thirds majority needed - followed the state Senate's vote a day earlier to enact the measure over the conservative Republican governor's objections.

The bill provides that domestic partners have the same rights as married couples in matters such as community property and responsibility for debts. It also prohibits discrimination against domestic partners.

Critics contended that domestic partners can sign private contracts to accomplish many of the goals of the bill, and that it conflicted with the intent of Nevadans who voted in 2002 for a constitutional amendment supporting marriage between a man and a woman.

[garbon]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090601/ap_on_re_us/us_cheney

Former Vice President Dick Cheney said Monday he supports gays being able to marry but believes states, not the federal government, should make the decision.

"I think, you know, freedom means freedom for everyone," Cheney said in a speech at the National Press Club. "I think people ought to be free to enter into any kind of union they wish, any kind of arrangement they wish."

Cheney, who has a gay daughter, said marriage has always been a state issue.

"And I think that's the way it ought to be handled today, that is, on a state-by-state basis. Different states will make different decisions. But I don't have any problem with that. I think people ought to get a shot at that," he said.

[Faeelin]

Ooh, Cheney's good. Meanwhile, Obama has declared this gay pride month. 

[Siege]

Obama Bin Laden likes the ghey?

[garbon]

Ooh, Cheney's good. Meanwhile, Obama has declared this gay pride month. 

Bill Clinton did the same. I don't think it is so much of a declaration but an honoring.

[PDH]

Gay Pride sounds awfully gay...

[Strix]

The irony of the situation is that homosexuals are rapidly gaining the benefits of their partners just as most companies and organizations are cutting back on those benefits and/or raising the costs to make them unaffordable/unattractive.