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- From: fy@lucid.com (Frank Yellin)
- Subject: Re: Domestic Parnters
- In-Reply-To: corto@sumax.seattleu.edu's message of 26 Jan 1993 09:13:42 -0800
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- Date: 26 Jan 93 16:45:17
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- In article <1k3rg6INN9h8@sumax.seattleu.edu> corto@sumax.seattleu.edu (Cort
- Odekirk) writes:
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- > Can anyone E-mail me the actual text of a Domestic Partnership Ordinance?
- > Here at SU I got in a heated debate with a fellow classmate as to whether or
- > not these represented "Special Rights" for Gays. He claimed the legislation
- > gave benefits only to gay couples, and not to heterosexual couples. I know
- > he is wrong but not having the actual text of the ordiance it came down to a
- > his word vs mine situation.
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- I do not have the text in front of me.
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- But your friend is partially correct: The domestic partners rules passed
- by Stanford apply only to gay couples.
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- The reasoning was that heterosexual couples could get married. To get
- domestic partnership benefits, you must claim that you're in a for-all-
- practical-purposes-but-not-legally married relationship.
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-
- -- Frank Yellin
- fy@lucid.com
- A beneficiary of Stanford domestic partner bill.
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