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发帖数: 4174 | 1 Posted on Advocate.com November 08, 2010
Wis. Braces for Attack on DP Registry
By Julie Bolcer
WISCONSIN THE BADGER STATE X390 (FAIR) | ADVOCATE.COM
Following Republican election gains in the governor’s office and the
legislature, gay advocates in Wisconsin are readying for a fight to preserve
the state’s domestic partnership registry, which grants dozens of
protections to same-sex couples.
According to TheNorthwestern.com, Fair Wisconsin, the state’s leading gay
rights group, fears that Republicans’ professed focus on economic issues is
hiding a long-standing interest in repealing the domestic partnership
registry, already the subject of an ongoing lawsuit in light of the 2006
constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriages and civil unions.
“'(Governor-elect) Scott Walker and (Lieutenant Governor-elect) Rebecca
Kleefisch have been very clear about how they feel about domestic
partnerships and we are prepared to defend the legislation,’ said Katie
Belanger, executive director of Fair Wisconsin, the state's leading gay
rights advocacy group,” reported TheNorthwestern.com.
Walker vetoed a domestic partnership measure as Milwaukee County executive
and said he would have rejected the state’s initiative. Meanwhile,
Kleefisch compared same-sex unions to marriages with animals and inanimate
objects in a radio show this year.
In the legislature, state representative Penny Bernard Schaber told
TheNorthwestern.com that she expects Republicans in the majority will try to
dissolve domestic partnerships. |
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