Even better known are attempts in the last academic year to broach the topic of granting domestic partners of UGA employees non-health benefits like access to the library and Ramsay Student Activities Center. Those attempts failed, and pro-gay UGA employees tend to see the future of this and related issues in practical, rather bleak terms. They're afraid that the legislature would cut funding. They want to do the right thing but don't want to be penalized. Efforts to change city policy have not been as strident.
Personnel is our greatest cost, and benefits in our program are very generous.
The insurance industry is already attempting to assess the cost of the extension of benefits. The more change happens, the more afraid and angry the religious right gets. To that extent, we can probably expect difficulties down the road. But sooner or later, what we're after can only make sense. These are a few of our favorite gay-baiters 1.