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AZ: State Prepares to Kick Straight Unmarried Partners Off Healthcare Plan

Friday, December 24th, 2010

On Jan. 1, Arizona will cut off health-care benefits to about 600 heterosexual, unmarried domestic partners of state employees.

Gov. Jan Brewer and the Legislature made the benefit change as part of budget cuts in 2009. They intended to eliminate benefits for a much broader group, including adult children and gay partners of state employees.

However, the new federal health-care law and a court ruling have forced the state to continue covering those groups, leaving opposite-sex partners the only class impacted by the cuts.

Full Story from AZ Central

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Featured Gay Friendly Wedding Vendor: Dream of Healing, Superior, Arizona

Wednesday, December 8th, 2010

Periodically we’ll feature one of our vendors here to let our readers know about some great people who can help you plan the perfect wedding.

Gay Friendly Southern Arizona Wedding Vendors

Dream of Healing - Superior, ArizonaReverend Pamela has a Master’s in Nursing Education from Indiana’s Ball State University, and has been an RN for more than twenty five years. Reverend Pamela worked at Columbus Regional Hospital in Columbus, Indiana over twenty years. She moved to Arizona in 2001, and has provided dialysis on the Apache Reservation in San Carlos, Arizona. She also works as a Nurse Education Specialist at the Banner Desert Medical Center.

Reverend Pamela currently manages the Medical/Surgical and Intensive Care Units at Cobre Valley Community Hospital in Globe, Arizona.

She is a Licensed Interfaith Minister, and was ordained by Reverend Paula Webb from Universal Brotherhood, Inc. She is also a practicing Shamana. Reverend Pamela attended a Shamanic Apprenticeship Program in Michigan taught by John Perkins, and visited Ecuador to learn from the Shamans in the Amazon and the Andes Mountains. She later went back to the Andes to and receive intensive Shamanic Training in 2003, and was then initiated as a Shamana.

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AZ: State Appeals Ruling, Hopes to Strip Gay/Lesbian Couples of Benefits

Saturday, August 14th, 2010

A few weeks ago, LGBT employees in positions with AZ state government and AZ Universities were given their employee benefits back by the ruling of Judge John Sedgewick. This ruling was the result of a case brought to the courts on behalf of 10 same gender couples who were employed by the state, but whose employer benefits were taken away by Jan Brewer and the state Legislature.

Judge Sedgewick stated “because employees involved in same-sex partnerships do not have the same right to marry as their heterosexual counterparts, Section O has the effect of completely barring lesbians and gays from receiving family benefits.” He continued to say, “Consequently, the spousal limitation in Section O burdens state employees with same-sex domestic partners more than state employees with opposite-sex domestic partners.”

In 2008 during Janet Napolitano’s term, domestic partnership definitions finally afforded LGBT couples rights to the same benefits as their fellow employees who were heterosexual. Benefits are just another form of compensation. To deny a gay or lesbian employee these benefits amounts to less compensation for the same job done by his or her co-worker.

Full Story from the Tucson Citizen

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AZ: Federal Judge Blocks State Cutoff of Domestic Partner Benefits

Friday, July 23rd, 2010

A federal judge has blocked Arizona from implementing a cutoff of domestic partner benefits for gay and lesbian state employees. U.S. District Judge John Sedwick on Friday issued a preliminary injunction that requires the state to still make family health insurance available to gay and lesbian state employees who have established relationships that meet residency and other standards under state administration rules.

The judge also dismissed part of a lawsuit challenging the prohibition against providing domestic partner benefits to gays and lesbians, but he left another part intact, allowing the lawsuit to continue.

State officials approved domestic partner benefits in late 2008 under rule changes proposed by then-Gov. Janet Napolitano’s administration over objections from social conservatives.

Full Story from KTAR

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AZ: Proposed Bill Would Reserve Adoption for Married Couples, Exclude Lesbians & Gays

Saturday, March 27th, 2010

Arizona is considering a bill of a different sort; one that would block gays from the adoption process. Under the proposal, gays and singles would be exempt from the adoption process; married couples alone would be considered. The bill, written by Republican State Representative Warde Nichols, seems to have little political support. However, it indicates that the gay marriage debate is alive and far from over.

Recent polls indicate voters’ main concern is the economy; however, gay marriage remains in the spotlight. Governor David Paterson, a pro-marriage advocate, recently opted out of the New York gubernatorial race, eliciting an outcry from the gay community.

Harold Ford Jr. who is considering a run for the New York Senate Seat, found himself mired in controversy over his stance on gay marriage the same day. Meg Whitman, a gubernatorial candidate in California and the most prominent voice in a state embroiled in the gay marriage debate. Whitman, whose support from voters seems steady, recently came out in support of civil unions, but not marriage – a common position for candidates nowadays.

Full Story from The State Column

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AZ: Senate Candidate Says Gay Marriage Leads to Horse Love

Monday, March 15th, 2010

Former Arizona Congressman J.D. Hayworth, who is challenging Senator John McCain in the Republican primary, called Massachusetts’ gay marriage law “dangerous” and would likely allow a man to marry a horse, the Huffington Post first reported.

Hayworth made his comments during an interview on Orlando-based radio station WORL Sunday. The fifth-one-year-old politician called the Massachusetts Supreme Court ruling that legalized gay marriage in the state “dangerous” because it defines marriage as simply “the establishment of intimacy.”

“Now how dangerous is that?” Hayworth said. “I guess that would mean if you really had affection for your horse, I guess you could marry your horse.”

Full Story from On Top Magazine

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