Wisconsin Faces Potential Gay Brain Drain

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Meeting Wednesday with about 100 concerned students, faculty and staff, UW-Madison Chancellor John Wiley said the amendment makes it unlikely that Wisconsin's legislature will add health insurance benefits for domestic partners.

UW-Madison is the only school in the Big 10 that doesn't offer health insurance coverage for domestic partners - which puts the university at a competitive disadvantage in recruiting and retaining employees, he said.

Gomez said she started looking for jobs in other states the day after the amendment passed. She said she and her partner entered into a civil union in Vermont in 2000, but now they fear they have no legal rights in Wisconsin.

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UofM and MSU will be forced to drop theirs as well if the amendment doesn't get overturned.

The citizens were scammed, they were lead to believe the vote was only pertaining to the act of marriage itself and would not pertain to benefits, etc.

Michigan is already seeing a brain drain, but for many other reasons as well like the over-reliance on the auto industry.