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City Employees Sue Houston To Defend Same-Sex Spousal Benefits

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A trio of Houston city employees are suing the city, in order to preserve same-sex spousal benefits. The federal lawsuit comes as Houston is defending its right to grant such benefits against a challenge in Texas state court.LGBT civil rights organization Lambda Legal filed the suit on behalf of the three city employees. All three married their spouses before 2015, when the U.S. Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage nationwide in its Obergefell v. Hodges decision.
“States are looking for ways, who don’t like the decision, to kind of worm around it and limit it, and we just want the federal courts to put a stop to that now,” says Kenneth Upton, senior counsel for Lambda Legal. “And that’s what this lawsuit is attempting to do, is saying, look, this ultimately is a matter of federal law. Let’s get this resolved once and for all.”
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https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/...-houston-to-defend-same-sex-spousal-benefits/

After the Supreme Court's decision, the conservative activists who had initially sued Houston filed a motion seeking an injunction that would block the city from paying same-sex spousal benefits to its municipal employees while the case goes to trial. The activists also asked that any such benefits that have already been given be paid back by employees.

Kenneth Upton, an attorney for the three city employees and their spouses, said his clients and others who have received benefits for their same-sex spouses would be greatly harmed if they lost access to health insurance, disability and other benefits and also if they were forced to pay back such benefits.


One of the employees suing is a Houston police officer who is worried that if she is hurt or killed in the line of duty, her wife would not be entitled to the same benefits that the spouses of other police officers would have access to, said Upton, a Dallas-based attorney for Lambda Legal.
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Employees sue Houston over potential denial of same sex marriage - KRISTV.com | Continuous News Coverage | Corpus Christi


All about the sanctity of marriage eh?
 
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https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/...-houston-to-defend-same-sex-spousal-benefits/



Employees sue Houston over potential denial of same sex marriage - KRISTV.com | Continuous News Coverage | Corpus Christi


All about the sanctity of marriage eh?
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Some people refuse to face facts.

As long as marriage grants legal rights and benefits to the couple, as opposed to simply being a religious union in the sight of (insert deity) binding two spirits together?

Then anyone legally entitled to marry must have access to all such rights.
 
CriticalThought said:
https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/...-houston-to-defend-same-sex-spousal-benefits/



Employees sue Houston over potential denial of same sex marriage - KRISTV.com | Continuous News Coverage | Corpus Christi


All about the sanctity of marriage eh?
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Without knowing the specifics here my initial reaction is this.

If they are legally married they are entitled to whatever benefits that come with that. Texas may not like it but thats how it goes i follow lots of laws i dont like too.

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