As seen in Insurance Journal:
Vivian Knezevich wants to be home with three-year-old Christopher full-time but she’s had to take a job for the
health insurance.If her partner were a man, they could get married and she’d be covered under her husband’s policy. But her partner of 14 years is
a woman.Faced with this dilemma, Knezevich’s partner, Patricia Bedford, challenged the state’s denial of family benefits to her as a
state employee.She and another lesbian couple took the state to court and won a ruling last week in Merrimack County Superior Court.
The state bars gays and lesbians from marrying, so requiring its employees to be married to get family benefits is
discriminatory, Judge Kathleen McGuire ruled.[...]Attorney General Kelly Ayotte has said she will appeal.
Of course, I could always make my standard comment about admiring how the state can dictate who God can or can’t marry….