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Houston (that's Texas, folks)-Legally married same-sex spouses of city employees to receive benefits
http://www.click2houston.com/news/legally-married-samesex-spouses-of-city-employees-to-receive-benefits/-/1735978/23068638/-/jem0x7/-/index.htmlsnip-
The city of Houston will begin offering benefits to legally married same-sex spouses of city employees, Mayor Annise Parker announced Wednesday.
The mayor says she based her decision on a city legal department interpretation of recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions and other relevant case law from the around the country.
"Based on the right to equal protection under the law, it is unconstitutional for the city to continue to deny benefits to the same-sex spouses of our employees who are legally married," said Mayor Parker. "This change is not only the legal thing to do, it is the right, just and fair thing to do."
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The mayor says the city's legal department believes continued application of the charter amendment so as to deny same-sex spousal benefits would be unlawful because it treats employees differently on the basis of sexual orientation.
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Annise Parker has a domestic partner BUT is not married.
Hopefully one day marriage will be legal here in Texas and if she and her partner wish to do so they will marry
For folks that do not know: Parker ... is one of the first openly gay mayors of a major U.S. city. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annise_Parker
She won her re-election this month for her third/last term.
She is awesome
that bear the name Houston.
