The children of gay couples who receive health insurance from Cuyahoga County will now get benefits that the children of straight, but unmarried, couples can't receive, according to the Plain Dealer.
The Cuyahoga County Council, which voted 6-4 Tuesday on the measure, explained their decision to leave out the children of unmarried straight couples.
The newspaper explains that: "The children of all county employees are covered, regardless of the employee's marital status. The difference in the new law is that the children of the partners of gay county employees are now covered. The children of unmarried partners of heterosexual county employees are not."
From the Plain Dealer:
The reason, council members said, is that heterosexual couples can get married to get benefits for their children.
"This is the first step to be more inclusive," Council Vice President Sunny Simon, who introduced the legislation, said afterward. "They have a choice to get married. This particular group has no choice."
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Under Our current system,Employers pay most of there employee's Health Care costs. The children(biologicl & adopted) are covered as the employees dependants. I have no way of knowing where your adopted parents worked, but we are talking specifically about Cuyahoga County employees. I, in my own small part, AM PAYING FOR THERE HEALTH CARE. They are not legally married. That's the same as paying Health Care for a roommate. A Male/Female couple is normal.Same sex couples are abnormal. If that offends you, ask your two same sex adopted parents why they could not produce there own biological children. The key to you being offended lies there. Good day.
Shairia law. which is about as hateful to gays as some xtians.
And if you want to rant, why dont you talk about the immoral people who have children out of wedlock. We can save 10x easy of the cost of covering gay domestic partners re insurance. So cute how you forget conveniently about the sins of so many str8 people.
BTW keep your multi thousand year old scripture to yourself. Or I'll be glad to form a stone brigade to solve the problems of your daughters not being virgins on their wedding days.
Because our church will perform marriage rites for gays, and find them the best of parishioners. - sometimes adversity makes better people
Hypocrites
And nations as diverse as israel, Nepal, Repub of south africa etc. Want to stop the fraud I'mjust right - let gays marry. BTW how do we know that you and your wife are legally married? We' can prob save 10x what giving the small number of gay couples bennies by tossing off the hetero marriage fakers. I've been married 44 years and never been asked if I was married? thats where our county can save a fortune - kick off the hetero fakers.
We no longer sell our daughters into slavery of a man she has never met for a dowry and to cement biz ties etc. As for gays having the right to marry someone of the opposite sex, lets see you go marry someone of hte same sex........ Re tjhe procreation biz, lets make marriages conditional on children happening and kill off all marriages when the last kid reaches the age of majority. dont you get tired of throwing out the same old back of the bull arguments?
Stop claiming you are the victimi when in fact you are the victimizer.
Sorry Chris - you cant have it both ways. gays cant marry so we make exceptions for them. and dont need exceptions for unmarried hetero couples who can marry. Somehow the word hypocrite comes to mind. PS - its the 21st century.
BTW employer insurance cannot discriminate based on prior health issues. pvt policies can refuse you coverage or raise the rates astronommically if they think they are at risk of paying off. just time to treat our gay citizens equally. the simple solution - let them marry under civil law. (I can see the vittual bricks flying)
As I read through these comments, from the left and the right, both of which are full of attacks and accusations, a couple of songs from the band LIVE start to play through my head. I'm a sucker for a good, politically charged, song and their first album was comprised entirely of these types of songs. The Beauty of Gray is the name of the song. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VU4wDMYbIps If I told you he was your brother We could reminisce Then you would go about your day If I said you ought to give him some of your water You'd shake your canteen and walk away The perception that divides you from him Is a lie For some reason you never asked why This is not a black and white world You can't afford to believe in your side This is not a black and white world To be alive I say that the colors must swirl And I believe That maybe today We will all get to appreciate The Beauty of Grey
I admire your attempt to foster equality but let me supply some subtext to your lyrics. "If I said you ought to give him some of your water You'd shake your canteen and walk away" If I demand that you give the water that you just spent a whole day working to acquire so that your wife and children would not thirst you would walk away. "This is not a black and white world You can't afford to believe in your side" This is not a black and white issue, it's math, you can't afford it because it's already been spent and it's been spent for your children. And for you Brandon.
All children have access to health benefits no matter what the makeup of the family. The question is who PAYS for it.
We all pay into a pot to help those who cannot help themselves. You are right in that respect, but it's better to see children, or anyone for that matter, get whatever healthcare is needed rather than to let them suffer. Isn't that what a society is supposed to do? I would hate for us to regress to the standards of the 1800's.
I'd hate to see that too but that is what we are headed for if we don't stop spending at the present rate. If we don't choose to control our spending the choice will be taken out of our hands. "If something can't continue, it stops". We are all on a fiscal Easter Island.