Posts Tagged ‘ Domestic Partnerships ’

Western Kentucky University Denies Domestic-Partner Benefits

Mar 2nd, 2010 | By Tony Begley, Contributor and Literary Editor | Category: Around the Commonwealth, Lead Story

Last week, Western Kentucky University’s “employee benefit committee” voted 8 to 6 against allowing benefits for both same-sex and opposite-sex unmarried partners. According to school officials, only about a handful of university employees would actually qualify for the “domestic partner” benefits if the university was to offer it. The issue was first brought up last year after resolutions were passed by the Student Government Association and University Senate.

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Marriage equality lost, but not losing

Nov 16th, 2009 | By Trevor Ashley, Contributor | Category: Lead Story, Viewpoints

But whether it is the National Organization for Marriage, the Liberty Counsel, the American Family Association, or the Family Foundation of Kentucky, anyone who denies that “American opinion is shifting” inhabits a fool’s paradise. Opposition to gay marriage is shrinking. In 1996, 65 percent took a negative view. Since then, support has fallen by about one percentage point a year. Basically, one (1) out of every eight (8) Americans has gone from opposing the concept to endorsing it.

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