AFA Lawyer Denounces University's New Pro-Homosexual Healthcare Policy
by Jim Brown
January 27, 2006
(AgapePress) - - A constitutional attorney says the University of Florida (UF) is seeking to advance a radical pro-homosexual agenda with its new healthcare plan for employees.
Under the UF plan, the so-called "domestic partners" of both homosexual and heterosexual employees are eligible for health insurance coverage as long as they are having sex. In order to qualify, employees must declare they are involved in a "non-platonic" relationship.
Steve Crampton, chief counsel with the American Family Association Center for Law & Policy, says, in this case, homosexuality appears to be the preferred lifestyle of the State of Florida. He notes that the UF healthcare plan favors same-sex couples over other unmarried people living together in a household for more legitimate reasons.
"So here's a daughter who may be supporting an invalid mother, or a young man who has taken in a dying uncle, unable to work," Crampton posits. "Or how about the Christian who has taken in a homeless man who's out of work and down on his luck, and he's just trying to help him out? Forget it -- you can't get these benefits."
The UF healthcare plan seems indifferent to the predicament of people who are living with someone that is not their spouse or their child and for whom they are assuming some measure of financial responsibility but with whom they are not sleeping, the AFA Law Center spokesman points out. "But if you're part of a homosexual couple and you swear that you're having sex," he says, "well, by golly, we've got taxpayer-funded health benefits for you."
The pro-family attorney feels it is not only unlawful but ridiculous and impractical for the University of Florida to specifically insure homosexual employees despite their higher risk for contracting sexually transmitted diseases and other costly health problems.
The UF domestic partner benefits plan requires unmarried, cohabitating university employees to sign a pledge affirming they are having sex in their relationship in order to qualify. Crampton sees that as the virtual equivalent of telling employees who smoke that they must promise they're smoking three packs of cigarettes a day in order to receive medical coverage.
And yet, the Law Center attorney asserts, this "unconstitutional" policy reflects a mindset prevalent at universities all over the U.S. He believes it is a mindset that favors homosexuality and confers that lifestyle with special status, without regard for the Constitution or common sense.
"When you consider this policy and the explicit support, not just of out-of-wedlock sex but homosexual sex, as a condition for receiving health benefits -- and I recognize they include heterosexual couples here -- there's no doubt that the real motivation behind these policies is advancement of the homosexual agenda," Crampton says. "And they're using taxpayer money to advance this kind of craziness as a condition for receiving health benefits."
The American Family Center for Law & Policy is a public interest law firm specializing in constitutional litigation in state and federal courts throughout the United States. Chief counsel Steve Crampton, who practices exclusively in the area of constitutional law, is a regular contributor for the daily radio broadcast We Hold These Truths and frequently appears on television and other media news and talk shows, speaking on constitutional rights and social issues.
Jim Brown, a regular contributor to AgapePress, is a reporter for American Family Radio News, which can be heard online.
