Ohio Court Rejects Legislator’s Attempts to Stop Marriage-like Benefits for Homosexual “Partners”

Excerpts from “Same-sex benefits challenge tossed”
By Dan Horn, The Cincinnati Enquirer – August 28, 2007

Miami University’s practice of offering benefits to [homosexual] “domestic partners” of its employees [was upheld in court] on Tuesday, August 28.

The Ohio 12th District Court of Appeals ruled that State Rep. Tom Brinkman Jr., a Cincinnati Republican, did not have legal standing to sue the university over its “benefits” policy.

Brinkman had argued the same-sex “partnership” policy violates an Ohio constitutional ban on civil unions that went into effect in 2004.

As a taxpayer and the parent of two Miami students, Brinkman said he had a legal right to sue.

The appeals court, however, upheld a lower court decision last year that dismissed Brinkman’s lawsuit.

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Miami began offering benefits to homosexual “domestic partners” of employees in July 2004. School officials have said about 30 people have the benefits at a total cost of [about] $100,000.

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