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Found this at the Asheville Citizen Times. Asheville resident
Walter Plaue writes a very good letter to the editor. Check it out!
Regarding the proposal to authorize domestic partner benefits for employees of the city: As I read the proposal, these benefits would not be available to couples who are unmarried but heterosexual, but would be available only to partners in “same-sex” arrangements. To me, this is discriminatory against members of a specific part of our population, namely people who are heterosexual (and who happen to constitute a majority of our population).
To qualify for these benefits, these heterosexual couples would be “forced” to get married, as the law does not prohibit them from doing so. Is this a healthy situation for the city to endorse, i.e., “forcing” unmarried heterosexuals to get married so they can get the same benefits as their homosexual compatriots? While I do not have access to any known statistics, I would venture to guess that there are more male-female couples living together than same-sex couples.
Thus, I believe that the proposal as stated, is unconstitutional as it discriminates against a specific group on the basis of sexual orientation.
Walter Plaue, Asheville
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