Employers cutting domestic partner benefits

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For example, couples filing for a marriage license in Louisiana, Michigan and Idaho actually put themselves and their families at risk. By outing themselves as gay, they could be fired, denied credit, evicted or deprived of public accommodations. For these reasons, it is absolutely essential that employers continue offering domestic partner benefits.

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I'm confused by this...them having a domestic partnership, which I would assume the employer would have to know about, wouldn't out them as gay, but marriage would?

someone help me out

Ah... Who would have thought gays would find something else to complain about. Life must be tough when you have to constantly pander to maintain victim status. Welcome to married life.

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someone help me out

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this is what the article is about, implicitly

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Paradoxically, same-sex marriage makes LGBT citizens more vulnerable to discrimination in states without anti-bias laws protecting citizens on the basis of their identity and sexual orientation.

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nope, but logic is not necessary when you can inject emotions

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It's BS that you get tax breaks for being married. The whole idea of financial benefits force individuals to stay in unhappy relationships for the most part.

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horseshite. If you stay married because of financial benefits, you deserve the misery you get.

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So it's laying the foundation for the next step: adding sex orientation as an unlawful basis of discrimination.

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that's the goal at least

What I want to know is how come they weren't so concerned about outing themselves when they were protesting to be allowed to marry? No where during that did you hear this argument that it was safer to keep a domestic partnership from the gay community.

Welcome to marriage. Straight couples that just live together and are not married are not allowed to be on each other's employer provided benefits.

Which tax breaks are these?