When the Wisconson assembly passed their amendment to ban any benefits for gay couples, the proponents claimed (very questionably) that domestic partner benefits from places like Madison would not be affected.
Now this bill has passed the House and is on it's way to the Senate, which basically bans everything the proponents of the amendment supposedly had no problem keeping.
http://www.queery.com/sybfusion.cgi?templ=q-item2.tpl&category=News&idx=91964
Columbia (AP) March 17, 2004 - The House gave key approval Wednesday to a bill that prevents local governments from extending health and other benefits to same-sex couples. The bill also strengthens current laws banning same-sex unions.
It won second reading with a 103-7 vote and now requires only routine third reading before heading to the Senate.
Columbia Representative Todd Rutherford spoke against the bill. He says it is similar to old laws that prohibited blacks and whites from interracial unions.
Florence Representative Jim McGee says the bill is about protecting the institution of marriage that has been the building block of society for thousands of years.
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I thought someone here said that Wisconsin's assembly was centrist, they changed after Steve Gunderson was reelected, etc.
This seems like a non-stop stream of bias and punishment to me.
Do Wisconsin voters now have some kind of primal loathing for gays? Do the legislators go as far as they can over and over because they never have to worry about being voted out of office?
I guess they'll be going after adoption soon.
Thank God I never moved there. The people I do know who live there probably won't be there much longer.