Massachusetts Firms Drop Domestic-Partner Benefits ; Same-Sex 'Marriage' Move Irks Advocates

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To some major Massachusetts employers, this year's advent of same- sex "marriage" means the end of their domestic-partnership benefit programs.

The decision by IBM Corp., the New York Times Co. and Northeastern University to offer health benefits only to "married" same-sex couples pleases some advocates, but troubles others.

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Massachusetts Firms Drop Domestic-Partner Benefits ; Same-Sex 'Marriage' Move Irks Advocates

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court's Goodridge decision, which legalized same-sex "marriage" as of May 17, "leveled the playing field," said Candace Quinn, vice president of Baystate Health System, which emplo...

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