On Friday, the Personnel Committee of the Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors voted to add “domestic partner benefits” to the County’s employee benefits plan (which is already tremendously expensive). According to the MJS’s report, “The measure calls for developing a final plan for offering health benefits to same sex or opposite sex partners of county workers.” The benefits are roughly estimated to cost $4 million, which would have to be found by either raising revenues or cutting other programs.
Thankfully, Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker has already promised a veto: “Now is not the time to be adding any new benefits for public employees, let alone this specific benefit.”
He’s quite right. On Election Day 2006, 55 percent of Milwaukee County voters – over 172,000 residents – said YES to the Wisconsin Marriage Amendment and YES to unique status of marriage as the union of one man and one woman.
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Too bad the administration at ‘Catholic’ Cardinal Stritch University doesn’t take the same stand as Walker:
Supposedly Catholic Cardinal Stritch University Offers “Domestic Partner” Health Benefits:
http://mu-warrior.blogspot.com.....University
Evidently, the past and current powers-that-be at the Milwaukee Archdiocese have no jurisdiction in this matter or they think it’s fine.