A Face & Heart No Mother Would Love: She is Still Fighting 'The Gay Agenda'
Arizona, under the leadership of it’s anti-gay Governor, Jan Brewer, has announced its intention to appeal a federal judge’s decision that declared the state’s government could not take away health coverage and other benefits from the domestic partners of gay state and university workers.
A press aide to Brewer stated earlier this week:
“We are appealing the preliminary injunction because we disagree with the federal court’s initial injunction ruling. We believe the Legislature has the ultimate authority to make state employee benefit decisions.”
Brewer became governor last year after Janet Napolitano, the person responsible for expanding the benefits to include LGBT couples, stepped down to take a job in the Obama administration, which paved the way for the Republican-controlled Legislature to take away benefits from the partners of unmarried employees, whether gay or straight.
Lambda Legal filed suit on behalf of gay workers, saying they have no option of getting benefits because the Arizona Constitution forbids them from marrying.
In a ruling last month, a federal judge agreed, stating the change is discriminatory because it makes benefits available “on terms that are a legal impossibility for gay and lesbian couples, and As a result, (the law) denies lesbian and gay state employees in qualifying domestic partnership a valuable form of compensation on the basis of sexual orientation.”
But just as with immigration, Brewer seems to think that a state’s power trumps that of the federal government so she and her staff have prayed on it and under the guide of their religious beliefs, have decided to fight against the gay agenda. I personally can only hope that Arizonans will vote this relic out of office!
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