NEWS FLASH

Michigan GOP To Vote On Eliminating Domestic Partnership Benefits | Republicans in the Michigan legislature may push legislation to prohibit public employers from offering taxpayer-paid health insurance to domestic partners living with public employees, adversely affecting gays and lesbians who cannot marry in the state. Earlier this year, the Michigan Civil Service Commission voted “to allow state employees to share health care benefits with an ‘other eligible adult,’” a decision the state GOP has repeatedly sought to overturn.