Wisconsin Family Council Plans Legal Challenge to Wisconsin's New Domestic Partner Law
There could be a legal challenge to the state's domestic partner registry. As part of the recently signed state budget, county clerks will soon have to offer a domestic partner registry to same sex couples around Wisconsin.
Not so fast says Julaine Appling of the Wisconsin Family Council. "Our lawyers have been looking at this domestic partnership registry since the day it was introduced," Appling. "Our lawyers are looking right now at what a legal challenge would look like."
Appling claims the budget language violates the 2006 Constitutional Amendment banning gay marriage and any similar "union" sanctioned by the state. But Scott Ross with One Wisconsin Now says Appling and other proponents claimed the amendment would not ban what the state is now doing.
Full Story from WRN.com
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posted by Mark & Scott at
7/03/2009 07:16:00 AM
1 Comments:
Yes, this ought to be interesting. Its been clear through the media that during the amendment campaign back in 2006, the intent was to ban look-alike marriages and not affect benefits. Even though the state is offering 43 rights, protections, and benefits out of 200+ to same-sex couples via a status which does not require divorce law to terminate, they claim the status violates the amendment.
If these people get their way, and establish that the intent of the amendment was to also ban benefits, does that mean that the initial referendum posed two questions? I.E.: Shall Wisconsin ban look-alike marriages? Shall Wisconsin ban domestic partner benefits?
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