SAME SEX BENIFITS DISCRIMINATE AGAINST HETEROSEXUALS | News
Found this at the Asheville Citizen Times. Asheville resident Walter Plaue writes a very good letter to the editor. Check it out!
Regarding the proposal to authorize domestic partner benefits for employees of the city: As I read the proposal, these benefits would not be available to couples who are unmarried but heterosexual, but would be available only to partners in “same-sex” arrangements. To me, this is discriminatory against members of a specific part of our population, namely people who are heterosexual (and who happen to constitute a majority of our population).
To qualify for these benefits, these heterosexual couples would be “forced” to get married, as the law does not prohibit them from doing so. Is this a healthy situation for the city to endorse, i.e., “forcing” unmarried heterosexuals to get married so they can get the same benefits as their homosexual compatriots? While I do not have access to any known statistics, I would venture to guess that there are more male-female couples living together than same-sex couples.
Thus, I believe that the proposal as stated, is unconstitutional as it discriminates against a specific group on the basis of sexual orientation.
FROM THE ASHEVILLE CITIZEN TIMES— City police arrested an Asheville teen Monday suspected of stealing electronics from several stores in the area. Chester Dean Ray III, 17, of Wellington Drive, Arden, was charged with two counts of felony larceny and two counts of misdemeanor larceny.
Ray stole TVs, Play Station video game systems, notebook kits and other items from Aldi, CVS, HH Gregg and Best Buy stores in Asheville, according to warrants filed at the Buncombe County Magistrate's Office. His bond was set at $10,000.
Alvin James Ray, Jr., 23, of Asheville, and Tremain Allen Lucas, 29, of Asheville, are also wanted in the thefts, police have said.
The suspects have often dressed in women’s clothing while committing the crimes, police said.
DEMOCRAT GAY, LESBIAN, TRANSGENDER ACTIVIST - ASHEVILLE CITY COUNCILMAN GORDON SMITH
Buncombe County Commissioners and Manager Wanda Green - 828-250-4100 Asheville City Council - 828-259-5600
Carolina Stomper Don Yelton has done extensive research on all of this and has found that Buncombe County officials have known about this for years.
Bob Hunter - past Director of General Services took oversight of the hazardous waste officer. Hunter and Norman Lewis both worked at the plant and were personal friends to Commissioner Bill Stanley for years.
The person to ask the hard questions to is Bill Stanley. He knows it all.
It took ten years of Yelton asking questions to get Stanley to finally say he knew about it. Stanley admitted it on television yet Congressman Shuler and Attorney General Cooper just talk a big game.
The people that live in this disaster area are going to have to file a law suite to win just compensation.
Why would county officials allow homes to be built there knowing that contaminates were in the ground water?
Where are all the Democrat, liberal environmentalists? Do they just shut up when their local leaders are at fault?
Thank you to conservative, (and I might add - a professor of biology and common sense environmentalist), Don Yelton for helping these people.
Please call the numbers. Help this lady and her neighbors.
John Elliston of the Mountain Xpress writes a great article about where to go locally for affordable meds and health care. Check out his story "Saving Drug Money" from the link below.
