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Walker seeks to stop defense of state's domestic partner registry
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Last Edited | RP May 17, 2011 12:36pm |
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Category | General |
Author | Patrick Marley |
Media | Newspaper - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel |
News Date | Monday, May 16, 2011 06:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
Description | Gov. Scott Walker believes a new law that gives gay couples hospital visitation rights violates the state constitution and has asked a judge to allow the state to stop defending it.
Democrats who controlled the Legislature in 2009 changed the law so that same-sex couples could sign up for domestic partnership registries with county clerks to secure some - but not all - of the rights afforded married couples.
Wisconsin Family Action sued last year in Dane County circuit court, arguing that the registries violated a 2006 amendment to the state constitution that bans gay marriage and any arrangement that is substantially similar.
The registries allow same-sex couples to take family and medical leave to care for a seriously ill partner, make end-of-life decisions and have hospital visitation rights. But according to Fair Wisconsin, they still confer only about a quarter of the rights associated with marriage, lacking provisions to allow couples to file joint tax returns or adopt children together. |
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