{"id":272,"date":"2006-07-06T20:12:41","date_gmt":"2006-07-07T01:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/272"},"modified":"2006-07-06T20:13:10","modified_gmt":"2006-07-07T01:13:10","slug":"loving-the-sinnercontinued-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/272","title":{"rendered":"Loving The Sinner&#8230;(continued)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The usual suspects have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freep.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20060706\/NEWS06\/607060385\/1008\/NEWS\">filed suit in Michigan<\/a> , to stop Michigan State University from offering health insurance to the partners of gay people.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>LANSING &#8212; A conservative group sued Wednesday to stop Michigan State University from offering health insurance to the partners of gay workers and said the school is violating a 2004 amendment to the state constitution.<\/p>\n<p>The American Family Association of Michigan filed the lawsuit in Ingham County Circuit Court and hopes to get a ruling setting a precedent that would block domestic-partner benefits at other state universities.<\/p>\n<p>The purpose of the suit is to ensure that courts rule on the constitutionality of domestic-partner benefits at public universities, said Patrick Gillen, an attorney for the Thomas More Law Center in Ann Arbor, which is representing the association.<\/p>\n<p>By providing same-sex benefits, MSU is &quot;recognizing same-sex marriage in substance, if not by label,&quot; Gillen said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Not to mention providing access to health care for a class of people the American Family Association would just as soon see dead.&nbsp; The bible says their blood will be upon them after all&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The usual suspects have filed suit in Michigan , to stop Michigan State University from offering health insurance to the partners of gay people. LANSING &#8212; A conservative group sued Wednesday to stop Michigan State University from offering health insurance to the partners of gay workers and said the school is violating a 2004 amendment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[17,18,16,20,12],"class_list":["post-272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gay-families","tag-gratuitous-anti-gay-hate","tag-marriage","tag-the-american-gutter","tag-the-struggle-for-our-lives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}