STATE BANS ON DOMESTIC PARTNER BENEFITS: Walter Olson replies to Joshua Baker

Joshua Baker, on the Oct. 15 Marriage Debate, here.

Press accounts differ as to whether any other states impose similar restrictions (many articles describe Virginia as standing alone, but the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot article says that Tennessee and West Virginia also restrict such coverage). Georgia used to forbid private DP coverage but dropped the policy, in part because national businesses want the freedom to offer such benefits where advantageous. Given the enthusiasm of the Virginia Religious Right forces for keeping their state's ban in place, it is far from unreasonable to suspect that their co-thinkers in other states might also harbor an ambition of restricting the availability of private domestic-partner health benefits.

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