Md. state employees in same-sex marriages get same rights as heterosexuals

Dan82 · May 20, 2010

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/annapolis/2010/05/md_state_employees_in_same-sex.html

State employees in Maryland can now sign up same-sex spouses as dependents, making them eligible to receive the same health care and other benefits afforded to husbands and wives of heterosexual state employees, according to Gov. Martin O'Malley's (D) office.

The change, made public Wednesday, means that O'Malley's administration has followed through in codifying a legal opinion issued in February by Maryland Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler.

In that opinion, Gansler overturned a previous attorney general, writing that there was nothing barring the state from recognizing valid same-sex unions performed elsewhere. In his role as Maryland's top legal adviser to state agencies, Gansler at the time also went one step further, saying that state agencies should begin granting married same-sex couples the same rights as heterosexual ones...
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Emberstone · May 20, 2010

how long before the republicans now try to have her impeached for not upholding their claimed rights to be total shitfucks?

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