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...Sell, the chair of the MSU Administrative Professional Association, said he supported the resolution, but with one recommended change...
...MSU Trustee Robert Weiss, who proposed the resolution, said he didn't take a stand on the issue in November 1995--when the board decided to delay its decision for two years--because he wanted to make sure that it was no easier for same-sex couples to receive benefits than for legally married couples...
Weiss said he does not see the domestic partner benefits issue as a moral issue and pointed to one of MSU's Guiding Principles, a set of goals written by university administration...
...Palinski, an MSU alumna, also spoke against the resolution. She said the resolution is unfair because it "gives the homosexual label benefits over the friendship label," leaving out people who live together but who are not partners...
...provide a "signed partnership" agreement with MSU that obligates each party to provide support for one another, and provides for a substantially equal division, upon termination of the relationship, of earnings during the relationship and any property acquired with those earnings...