Should unmarried state workers be offered health insurance for their gay live in partner?Not that that is unexpected. But it didn't stop the braintrust over at Page One Kentucky from reporting that only 9 percent of Kentuckians opposed such benefits. Where did they get that idea? They looked at Herald-Leader/Action News 36 Election Poll, which reported that only 9 percent of Kentuckians listed domestic partner benefits as one of their top 2 issues. And here is what they concluded:
23% Yes
73% No
Less gay hating. 9% of Kentuckians want to ban domestic partner benefits. Only 9%. But 34% say health insurance for children is their top priority. Ruh ro, Mitch. You may be on the wrong end of another issue. Oh, and the state legislature is crappy as always.Huh?
First of all, there is the not so implicit assumption that just because you don't think unmarried relationships should be encouraged by state institutions that therefore you hate the people involved them. As I keep pointing out (am I blue in the face yet?), just because you disagree with someone doesn't mean you hate them.
But more importantly, by what logical procedure do you conclude from the fact that only 9 percent of Kentuckians listed domestic partner benefits as one of their top issues that only 9 percent of the people oppose these benefits at all? Who would expect the issue to be one of the top two for most people anyway, no matter how many people oppose it?
But I guess I should be careful. I wouldn't want to be accused of hating people who misinterpret statistics, would I?
3 comments:
What is your source? This is on the WHS site from July 3, 2007?
#2
Asked of 500 Adults
Margin of Sampling Error for this question = ± 4.5%
Would you support? Or oppose universities offering health benefits to the unmarried, domestic partners of university employees?
46%
Support
50%
Oppose
4%
Not Sure
And this from 7/19/05
SURVEY USA
07/19/2005: Gay Marriage
11:27 AM EDT on Wednesday, July 20, 2005
In an exclusive WHAS11 Survey USA poll, we asked who should have the final say on gay marriage: your state government, the federal government, or should the government have no say?
In Kentucky, 23 percent said the state, 36 percent said the federal government and 39 percent said neither.
In Indiana, 20 percent said the state, 35 percent said the federal government and 42 percent said neither.
My source was also Mark Hebert's blog, only an apparently more recent survey. You can now click on the Title of the post to get to the post.
Read this:
http://righteousinky.blogspot.com/2007/11/end-of-kentucky-fairness-alliance.html
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