Benefits banned
http://www.statenews.com/index.php/article/2008/05/benefits_banned
5/11/2008
"Although Penny Gardner has been with her partner for 11 years, they still don't depend on each other when it comes to their health. As a visiting professor in Women, Gender and Social Justice, Gardner isn't enrolled for health benefits due to her fixed term on campus. But a Michigan Supreme Court ruling has made benefits inaccessible by prohibiting public universities from offering them to partners of gay employees."
One of these days, we'll get a case to the supreme court on this issue. Hopefully, after we stack it with a few more progressive thinkers.
Cindi