Cake and the eating of cake...

Geoffrey at Dog Snot Diaries links to an interesting fallout from the Gay Marriage issue: bq. Domestic-partner benefits......gone. Many of Massachusetts major employers, companies like IBM Corp., Raytheon Co., Emerson College, Northeastern University, the National Fire Protection Association, Boston Medical Center, Baystate Health System, and The New York Times Co., are doing away with their domestic-partner benefits. Same sex couples will no longer be able to cover each other under employer health and dental programs. Why? Because in Massachusetts, homosexuals have the same rights as heterosexuals. They can marry. If they are legally married, then they are entitled to the same benefits. Sounds fair, right? HA! As if. GLAD (Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders) are still crying. Did you expect anything else?

Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders, or GLAD, a New England advocacy organization, argues that taking them away is an unfair hardship, because the decision to marry is still more difficult for gay and lesbian couples. .....Some said they simply aren't ready to marry just because a longstanding barrier to marriage was suddenly lifted.

bq. Wah fucking wah. bq. Boston.com Be careful what you wish for -- you might get it... The responsibility of Marriage is not one to be entered into trivially but it is one to be cherished and rewarded. Back when Marriage was not available to gay couples, I could see getting domestic-partner benefits but now that the issue of marriage has been removed in a few states, the uncertainty of how to assign benefits to domestic spouses has been removed too... Put up or shut up.