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WI: After initial surge, same-sex couples applying for benefits slow

By Alliance Alert

WTAQ: "Over 1,300 same-sex couples in Wisconsin applied for the state?s domestic partner benefits in the first 5 months they were offered. About one couple entered the same-sex registry for every 11 traditional marriages in the final 5 months of last year. But the numbers fell off dramatically after an initial splurge when the registry was first offered last August. And in 7 counties, no gay couples signed up for the state benefits in 2009. In Milwaukee County, just over 200 same-sex couples got on the registry last year. But now, the state?s largest county only gets about one such request per week."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on May 10, 2010 (boomark / email).