City in Kansas Has Not Granted Rights to Domestic Partners

Many cities across the nation are now reconsidering existing laws on domestic partnerships. The past year has seen many cities and townships decide to grant domestic partnership rights to couples that have long been waiting for them.

One city in Kansas, however, has not yet come to such a place of understanding just yet. After months of rallying for the vote, the chair of the state's Equality Coalition was disappointed when the motion did not pass this week. Up for a vote was the idea of a domestic partnership registry that would allow couples, both straight and homosexual, to register legally as a domestic partnership.

This would then have given them certain rights that are extended to married couples, such as employee benefits. One councilman spoke about the registry after the vote failed and said that he simply did not see enough reasons to support such a motion at this time.

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