How's that? - The Politics

How's that? - The Politics section of the Star/Tribune online today includes one of those quickie polls about same-sex benefits. The poll asks:

"Should the state support same-sex employee benefits?

• Of course it should
  
• Absolutely not
  
• Only if opposite-sex employees are similarly treated
  
• I don't know

Why isn't "If they're in the same type of legal contract as married people" an option? Heterosexuals living together is an option, implying that the only union that the Strib, and the "benefits for all" activists are concerned with is the romantic coupling, not the legal binding that separates married people from those just banging the headboards together.

Why isn't this ever brought into the debate?

Posted by Mitch at February 20, 2002 10:28 AM