| "In
early 2002, pro-homosexual state legislators led by Representative Mark
Pocan made their second try at securing health insurance benefits for the
live-in sexual partners of state employees. Wisconsin Christians United
had been given an advance warning of the proposal and, before the bill was
even introduced, orchestrated a campaign which resulted in legislators
receiving a flood of e-mails, phone calls, and 25,000 postcards against
the measure. As a result, Pocan and Co. did not even get their bill out of
committee.
"Now it comes to light that Governor Jim Doyle has been
quietly attempting to force state residents to ante up for such benefits
anyway. It seems the governor has been working in the closet, so to speak,
putting pressure on reluctant state employee unions to provide health
insurance benefits based on the qualification that the recipients sexual
partner--sorry, 'domestic partner'--is a state government worker. This is
an amazing situation. How often in the middle of a state budget crisis and
the looming layoff of 10,000 government workers does a governor pressure
state employee unions to allow the state to pay out more money to expand
employee benefits? No doubt, this is a first. And no doubt, this is a pay
off to the homosexual groups which so enthusiastically worked for Jim
Doyle's election.
"The people of Wisconsin do not want their hard-earned money
to be used to reward sexual perversion. Governor Doyle knows that, but he
simply does not care. What Governor Doyle does care about is pandering to
the sexual anarchist wing of his support base. The silver lining to this
cloud is that Jim Doyle's back-door benefit scheme could result in voters
showing him the door next election cycle.
"WCU will be encouraging Wisconsin residents to call their
legislators and the governor's office in order to register their
opposition to Jim Doyle's back-room-hatched plan to reward state health
insurance benefits to individuals on the basis that they are sexually
reckless and immoral."
--Pastor Ralph Ovadal, Director, Wisconsin Christians United
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