wfn.org | Assembly Rejects Feasibility Study on Same-Sex Benefits

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GA99130 
25-June-1999 
 
     Assembly Rejects Feasibility Study on Same-Sex Benefits 
 
FORT WORTH -- There will be no feasibility study examining benefits for lay 
employees involved in same-sex relationships following a vote Friday night 
by the General Assembly. 
     Commissioners voted 304-215 with two abstentions not to approve a 
recommendation by the Committee on Pensions, Benefits and Presbyterian 
Publishing Corporation to request that the Presbyterian Board of Pensions 
conduct such a study into the matter and report back to next year's 
Assembly. 
     Supporters of the study argued that providing the same medical and 
pension benefits to same-sex couples as are afforded to married persons is 
an equal rights issue. Opponents countered that establishing such a policy 
is counter to church policy on human sexuality. 
 
 
Evan Silverstein 

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