Re: partner

In article <g5os3k$q85$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Peacenik <cnelsonpublic@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"R H Draney" <dadoctah@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:g5o4ub0127r@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Lately I've been hearing more and more use of the term "spousal
equivalent"...if
nothing else, this seems to indicate how weary most people are of
searching for
a suitable way of describing such a relationship....r

There's certainly a sense of sarcasm and protest in that term, given the
denial of the right of bona-fide marriage to gays.

I don't think so. Before /Goodridge/, my employer offered
separate-but-equal insurance coverage for "family" and "self +
same-sex spousal equivalent" (SSSE?). (I don't recall whether the
SSSE coverage also included dependents the way "family" does.) Now
they offer separate and unequal "family" and "self + spouse" coverage,
independent of the anatomical configurations of the people involved.

-GAWollman

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Opinions not those | grants to rare events of meanness such power to shape
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