<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/55329911-e6f2-4e6f-860a-e51478486988/22B15C19-2C60-48A9-9327-E58C698EA228/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.examiner.com/x-15850-Charlotte-Baptist-Examiner~y2009m7d11-Southern-Baptists-hope-to-block-Washington-gay-partnership-bill" href="http://www.examiner.com/x-15850-Charlotte-Baptist-Examiner~y2009m7d11-Southern-Baptists-hope-to-block-Washington-gay-partnership-bill" style="font-size: 11px;">www.examiner.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.examiner.com/x-15850-Charlotte-Baptist-Examiner~y2009m7d11-Southern-Baptists-hope-to-block-Washington-gay-partnership-bill"><DIV> As the issue of gay rights forges on from state to state, yet another controversial topic comes to the forefront.  According to an article by Baptist Press correspondent Tom Strodes, Washington is gearing up for a battle over a same sex partners’ benefits bill for federal employees. The article entitled "<EM>SBC's Page opposes same sex partners bill</EM>", appeared on the Baptist Press news website, <A href="http://www.bpnews.net/"><FONT color="#800080">www.bpnews.net</FONT></A>, on July10th.  The bill entitled “Domestic Partnership Benefits and Obligations Act” (also called <I>HR2517</I>), would grant benefits such as health insurance, retirement, and disability to the same sex partners of gay federal employees. Among the main opposers of this legislation, is the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC). The object of the bill is to extend the same rights that heterosexual federal employees have. While the question of this bill may be may be quite obvious, the answer is not so clear.</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/22B15C19-2C60-48A9-9327-E58C698EA228/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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