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Should empployers provide employee benefits for same sex partners of employees? Do they offer employee benefits such as medical insurance and life insurance to employees families when they are in traditional marriages. Then yes they should. At the end of the day having seperate rules, laws, or benefits for one group of people and a different set for another group of perople is discriminatory. We have laws here in America which preclude discrimination against people for race, creed, religion (or lack thereof),sexual orientation, age, etc. yet the issue of treating people in same sex relationships the same as people who are not keeps raising it's ugly and bigoted head. We shouldn't need to make laws and force people to treat everyone equally. An employee and the work that they do is no less valuable due to whom they choose to love and live with in their personal lives. In fact a persons personal lives should not have any bearing on how they or their partner are treated unde the law nor in the eyes of an employer.

From the standpoint of actual cost employers regularly offer medical and dental coverage for an employee, their spouse, and or their children. More people have children than do not so in terms of insurance cost an employer is willing to pay for spousal insurance and insurance coverage for however many children the employee may have (often at an additional cost to the employee as well), but when the question arises of whether the same protections and courtouseys should be extended to the partners of employees who are homosexual, why is it not taken into account that most same sex partnerships do not result in children. One or the other partner may bring a child into the relationship from a previous relationship or the couple may choose to adopt a child at some point in their relationship. Still a same sex relationship does not tend to produce the same number of children as their heterosexual co workers. So if it were an actual issue of cost to the employer, logically they would hire more people who are in same sex relationships and would gladly offer insurance for them and for their partners. Even if they do have a child or adopt a child same sex parnerships have a tendency toward having one and only one child within the family dynamic. Most homosexuals are not interested in child rearing however which lowers the cost of insuring the couple to two. Two now and though it may go down to one at some future date, the employee will likely only need the employer

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