Equality at Risk: Texas legislators jeopardize civil unions
DallasNews.com | News for Dallas, Texas | Opinion: Editorials: "What do the following companies know: Aetna, American Airlines, American Express, Capital One, Cisco Systems, Citigroup, Dell, Ford, IBM, J.P. Morgan Chase, Kraft Foods, Lucent Technologies, Miller Brewing, Nike, Pepsico, Wells Fargo?
That, in an ever more competitive world, giving equal treatment to employees who are homosexual is smart business. They are among the more than 50 Fortune 500 companies that got a perfect score on the Human Rights Campaign's Corporate Equality Index.
What do the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Psychiatric Association and the American Psychological Association know?
That in a world rife with economic uncertainty, psychological pressures and competing cultural influences, children and adults – whether straight or gay – are happiest and most productive if they are part of stable, legally recognized families. All those groups explicitly support civil unions for same-sex couples.
What do the majority of Texas legislators not get? That, in the interests of individual happiness and collective prosperity, it is counterproductive to ask voters to amend the state Constitution to deny marriage or any 'legal status identical or similar to marriage' to anyone other than 'one man and one woman.'"
That, in an ever more competitive world, giving equal treatment to employees who are homosexual is smart business. They are among the more than 50 Fortune 500 companies that got a perfect score on the Human Rights Campaign's Corporate Equality Index.
What do the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Psychiatric Association and the American Psychological Association know?
That in a world rife with economic uncertainty, psychological pressures and competing cultural influences, children and adults – whether straight or gay – are happiest and most productive if they are part of stable, legally recognized families. All those groups explicitly support civil unions for same-sex couples.
What do the majority of Texas legislators not get? That, in the interests of individual happiness and collective prosperity, it is counterproductive to ask voters to amend the state Constitution to deny marriage or any 'legal status identical or similar to marriage' to anyone other than 'one man and one woman.'"
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