Its not something that should be implemented into the benefits package for faculty members at UNO.

Do you really know many straight people willing to fake ‘out’ themselves as homosexuals to get health benefits? If so, you hang with a peculiar crowd.

Regardless, by your logic, we shouldn’t have benefits for wives and husbands either because people could just as well have sham marriages to cheat and take advantage of these opportunities.

The potential for fraud always exists, but there are better ways to address it than to maintain a discriminatory policy that makes our campuses less attractive to diverse faculty and, hence, less able to meet the educational/environmental needs of students. We are really just shooting ourselves in the foot by with-holding these benefits - it’s petty and does nothing but cater in needless and cowardly fashion to those who wish to maintain the 2nd-class status of GLBT citizens.

We can and should do better, as this post makes clear.

I’m not generalizing, but I’m sick of people taking their freedom for granted. People are given massive amounts of freedom, and after awhile, that’s not enough. They want more and more, as if the freedom they have is not enough. It’s ridiculous.

After your argument was shot down, you now are saying that we shouldn’t have same sex benefits at UNO because that pushes the limits of freedom in the United States. That is an even crazier argument than your first one.

Now, after Tyler belittled your argument, you have resorted to calling the people of this group, chief, and others cry babies. It’s disappointing that you need to resort to that.

If you would come up with a logical reason to oppose same sex benefits, then the people that comment on this blog would have a much higher respect for you. Instead, you made up arguments that weren’t clearly thought out and make no sense when you analyze the situation.

I would respect you more if you said that your religion teaches you that homosexuals are dirty sinners, and the government should not reward dirty sinners. Instead, you’ve tried to shroud your homophobic nature in irrational and poorly thought out excuses.

Oh…and homosexuals are dirty dirty sinners.

Sometimes meeting halfway will take you twice as far.

My “agenda,” if you want to call it that, is making sure that every American is protected by the Constitution, not just those who agree with narrowminded views.

Tell me Dave, do you pledge allegiance under God? or do you pledge allegiance?

I believe in God. But I don’t believe in a God that would condone the slaughter of innocents in the name of democracy. I don’t believe in a God that would punish people for how he made them. I don’t believe in a God that is a close friend of George W. Bush, Pat Robertson, James Dobson, and Jerry Falwell. My idea of God is far more just and loving than that.

just think about it.

See you later, thanks