A Shotgun Wedding in Connecticut?
Filed by: Father Tony
December 5, 2008 3:30 PM
http://www.bilerico.com/2008/12/a_shotgun_wedding_in_connecticut.php (http://www.bilerico.com/2008/12/a_shotgun_wedding_in_connecticut.php)
As some may know, in 2007, I elected to take advantage of the earliest possible retirement offered by the State of Connecticut to its managers. Recently, I received a letter from Nancy Wyman, Comptroller of the State of Connecticut. (Nancy is a great friend of the LGBT community and I'm proud to have supported her for many years.)
In part, her letter reads:
Dear Tony:
Congratulations, as a result of the Connecticut Supreme Court decision you now have the right to choose to get married.
I am writing directly to you because you filed a Domestic Partnership Affidavit with the Retirement and Benefit Services Division of the Office of the State Comptroller. The filing of such an affidavit allowed you to cover your same sex domestic partner and eligible dependent children under the State's pension and health benefit plan.
I consider them lucky to have domestic partner benefits at all.