Markets in Gay Rights: Virginia to Scrap Anti-Gay "No Benefits" Law
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More indicia that the "backlash" is not only petering out, but also backpedaling ever so slightly:
Virginia, land of the infamous (and short-lived) "bigot plate" proposal and renegade anti-gay school board members, tiptoed back from the Pit of Eternal Peril and is poised to scuttle an especially vicious law. And this symbolic if small victory comes fresh on the heels of the slightly smaller yet far more symbolic double-trouncing of Topeka's particularly obnoxious and loopy Reverend Fred Phelps and his would-be politician daughter.
Remind me again who has the momentum regarding gay rights?
It's one thing to choose the wrong side of history; it's quite another to choose the wrong side of capitalism. You'll lose every time, and you'll end up far more bloodied and bruised.
Meanwhile, PurpleScarf has much more on how another anti-gay Virginia delegate almost shot his state in the foot again, this time by using (and abusing) blood donor criteria as a front to further his bigotry agenda. Read his whole post -- funny and sad at the same time.
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The Virginia House of Delegates approved a bill recently that will lead to repeal of a law that makes Virginia the only state in the union to prohibit private companies from offering health insurance benefits to the domestic partners of their employees.
The "no insurance" law prohibited health insurance providers, such as Blue Cross-Blue Shield, from providing employee health insurance policies to categories of persons other than an employee's married spouse or blood relative.
The effort to repeal the law was spearheaded by Virginia businesses, concerned about the competitive disadvantage created by the law. The Virginia Chamber of Commerce took the lead in the fight, noting that large businesses were declining to locate in Virginia because of the ban.
Virginia, land of the infamous (and short-lived) "bigot plate" proposal and renegade anti-gay school board members, tiptoed back from the Pit of Eternal Peril and is poised to scuttle an especially vicious law. And this symbolic if small victory comes fresh on the heels of the slightly smaller yet far more symbolic double-trouncing of Topeka's particularly obnoxious and loopy Reverend Fred Phelps and his would-be politician daughter.
Remind me again who has the momentum regarding gay rights?
It's one thing to choose the wrong side of history; it's quite another to choose the wrong side of capitalism. You'll lose every time, and you'll end up far more bloodied and bruised.
Meanwhile, PurpleScarf has much more on how another anti-gay Virginia delegate almost shot his state in the foot again, this time by using (and abusing) blood donor criteria as a front to further his bigotry agenda. Read his whole post -- funny and sad at the same time.
Related Posts:
A Quick "Democracy At All Costs" Question
Markets in Gay Rights: Auto Companies Give Money -- and a Warning
Markets in Gay Rights: University of Wisconsin "Losing Outstanding Candidates"
Who Has the Gay Marriage Momentum?
On Gay "Neighborhoods"
Posted by KipEsquire on
4 March 2005
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