Court: District May Provide Benefits To Same-Sex Couples
A federal appeals court has upheld the Chicago school system's provision of health-insurance benefits for the same-sex domestic partners of its employees.
The challenge to the program came from a heterosexual employee who sought to force the district to expand the benefits to unmarried partners of the opposite sex.
Her legal appeal drew a sympathetic brief from a prominent gay advocacy group, but was rebuffed this month by a panel of three conservative judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit, in Chicago. The judges appeared to view same-sex-only benefits as less harmful to the institution of marriage than a broader...
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