http://www.family.org/cforum/fnif/news/a0031625.cfm
April 13, 2004
by Terry Phillips, correspondent
Lawsuit out of Minneapolis could put an end to cities telling businesses what benefits to offer their employees.
The city of Minneapolis is being hauled into court by a contracting company that is balking at being forced to provide benefits for partners of its homosexual employees in order to do business with the city. The suit is not a first, but it is precedent-setting -- since it marks the first such case coming out of a Midwestern city.
The city councils of several West Coast cities, as well as the state of California itself, have passed similar legislation requiring private companies to provide marriage-like benefits to their homosexual employees — if they want to do business with the those levels of government.