Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Asheville Takes a Step Forward
Good news from my hometown! Last night Asheville City Council took a key step toward extending benefits to the partners of gay and lesbian municipal employees. The vote was 4-2 in favor. The next step is for the city staff to report back to Council at its March 9th meeting with information on how workers' same-sex domestic partners could get the same benefits as heterosexual employees' spouses, including health insurance, bereavement leave and prescription drug coverage. A majority of Council members said they expect to vote for the final measure after the report. Sounds good to me! I'm hoping the ELCA will also get its act together and offer the same to me and my spouse!
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Oh yes, they should. Is it just bureacratic confusion about how to do it, or have they purposively decided not to do it?
Mostly bureaucratic confusion as far as the ELCA goes. They have to figure out how to get it done. You know those things take a while. Yawn!
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