Mich. Gov. Wants to Keep Denying Benefits to Same-Sex Couples | Advocate.com

"Public Act 297 is a cost-saving measure for the state."

So, am I to read this as meaning LGBT individuals are not worth the same (amount of money) that breeders are? That saving money trumps the Fourteenth Amendment? So "we" are only to be considered "three fifths of all other Persons?" Talk about the Southern Strategy at its worst,,,

Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder has asked a federal court to allow the state to continue denying domestic-partner benefits to gays and lesbians who work for state and local governments, reports MLive.com.

In a brief filed Friday, Snyder, a Republican, asked U.S. District Judge David Lawson to uphold the state's ban on benefits for same-sex partners of state and municipal employees, hoping to place a stay on Lawson's 2013 ruling that put the law on hold after five same-sex couples sued, claiming it violated their constitutional rights.

Lawson's June ruling determined that Michigan's Public Act 297, which prevents public employers from providing spousal benefits to same-sex partners, likely violated the equal protection clause of the U.S. Constitution, and issued a temporary injunction ordering the state to stop enforcing the law, according to MLive.

Snyder's motion for summary judgment, filed by Attorney General Bill Schuette, contends that Public Act 297 is a cost-saving measure for the state.

Mich. Gov. Wants to Keep Denying Benefits to Same-Sex Couples | Advocate.com