Salt Lake Council Bids To Emasculate Gay Benefits Plan [View All]

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Salt Lake City Council members are attempting to weaken Mayor Rocky Anderson's domestic partner plan by broadening it to include other adults living with city employees.

In a straw poll this week, all seven council members said they would support the council-created plan to provide health-insurance benefits for city employees' ``adult designees.'' That includes gay and heterosexual domestic partners, relatives and roommates.

To qualify, the designee would have to have lived with the employee for at least a year, and the two would have to be financially connected.

The plan is expected to cost the city an additional $140,000 to $225,000, depending on how many employees sign up.