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mama-star
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 Sun, May 24 2009, 9:42 am
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ok, I just want to vent: my brother and his longtime girlfriend live together in boston. he is a student and she works. under massachusetts state law, they have "domestic partnership" coverage for insurance. meaning, if my brother was a woman, he could claim "domestic partnership" with his girlfriend and get insurance coverage. but since he's a man, he's left without any coverage. this is just totally dumb.
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NotInNJMommy
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Sun, May 24 2009, 9:43 am
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don't get me staaahted, don't even get me staaahted....
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ChossidMom
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Sun, May 24 2009, 9:51 am
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Oh my. that's pretty funny. I mean - idiotic. I mean - how typical of the good ol' U.S. of A.
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chocolate moose
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Sun, May 24 2009, 10:26 am
| mama-star wrote: | | ok, I just want to vent: my brother and his longtime girlfriend live together in boston. he is a student and she works. under massachusetts state law, they have "domestic partnership" coverage for insurance. meaning, if my brother was a woman, he could claim "domestic partnership" with his girlfriend and get insurance coverage. but since he's a man, he's left without any coverage. this is just totally dumb. |
So let them get married. The benefits are for those who are committed.
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mama-star
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Sun, May 24 2009, 11:14 am
thank you dr. laura, I mean, chocolate moose. you think we haven't all been hocking them to get married? 
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mama-star
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Sun, May 24 2009, 11:42 am
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oh yeah, I just want to add: where is the logic on behalf of the state that they are willing to insure "married" OR "unmarried" gay people but not straight people? I mean, the whole thing is just ridiculous.
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chocolate moose
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Sun, May 24 2009, 11:50 am
It's decided by commitment. Not gender or s-xual preference.
Why is that so hard for you to wrap your head around ?
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ChossidMom
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Sun, May 24 2009, 12:18 pm
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Hey, she's got a point, Mama-star.
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cassandra
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Sun, May 24 2009, 12:31 pm
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So fight for constitutional gay marriage and your equity problem will be solved.
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mama-star
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Sun, May 24 2009, 12:39 pm
| chocolate moose wrote: | It's decided by commitment. Not gender or s-xual preference.
Why is that so hard for you to wrap your head around ? |
no chocolate moose, it is not decided by commitment. according to the state of massachusetts, all you have to do is claim your same-relations partner on your insurance. there does not need to be evidence of any legal commitment. so the bottom line is, gay partners get insurance, commitment or not, straight partners don't.
why is that so hard for you to wrap your head around?
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ora_43
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Sun, May 24 2009, 1:03 pm
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Massachusetts allows gay marriage, don't they? In which case it's really not logical. Maybe the law is a remnant from the pre-gay-marriage days.
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mama-star
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Sun, May 24 2009, 1:06 pm
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I dunno. but if I see teddy kennedy I'm gonna have a word or two with him!
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greentiger
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Sun, May 24 2009, 1:09 pm
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Theres a really funny movie about this where a single dad convinces his guy friend to move in with him to claim benefits.
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chocolate moose
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Sun, May 24 2009, 1:11 pm
| mama-star wrote: | | ok, I just want to vent: my brother and his longtime girlfriend live together in boston. he is a student and she works. |
First of all, if he's a student, he can be covered under his parent's plan. He should look into that.
| mama-star wrote: | | ok, I just want to vent: my brother and his longtime girlfriend live together in boston. he is a student and she works. under massachusetts state law, they have "domestic partnership" coverage for insurance. meaning, if my brother was a woman, he could claim "domestic partnership" with his girlfriend and get insurance coverage. but since he's a man, he's left without any coverage. this is just totally dumb. |
Read your own words. Domestic partnership means a committed relationship.
And I sense your thinly veiled hostility towards me. Not only isn't it appreciated, I'm going to tell Yael if it continues.
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ChossidMom
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Sun, May 24 2009, 1:16 pm
THIS is thinly veiled hostility. Kamayim Panim el Panim.
| chocolate moose wrote: | It's decided by commitment. Not gender or s-xual preference.
Why is that so hard for you to wrap your head around ? |
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chocolate moose
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Sun, May 24 2009, 1:17 pm
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ChossidMom
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Sun, May 24 2009, 1:17 pm
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If you don't write in an antagonistic fashion you won't be answered that way.
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chocolate moose
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Sun, May 24 2009, 1:18 pm
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ChossidMom, I know you don't like me either, so you reallllllllllllllllllllllllly have no right to comment here.
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cookielady
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Sun, May 24 2009, 1:22 pm
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Being that this is an open forum, I would say anyone has a right to post here.
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chocolate moose
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Sun, May 24 2009, 1:27 pm
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But not in a mean fashion.
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