Exciting news from another pair of Minnesotan Twin Cities: the Moorhead City Council passed a measure directing city staff to create a domestic partner registry, modeled on a similar registry in Duluth. Several Minnesota cities, including Minneapolis and St Paul, have domestic partner registries, giving committed, unmarried couples access to things like hospital visitation rights. Council Member Diane Wray Williams and two of her colleagues on the City Council spoke in favor of the resolution. She suggested the registry would enhance the city’s appeal and “give us all a wonderful place to live.” No-one voted in opposition to the registry, but according to the InForum of Fargo-Moorhead, Council Member Luther Stueland had voiced opposition to the idea in the past, questioning whether the city was the place to establish such a registry. No word on any desire on his part to deport all LGBT Moorhead residents to the Twin Cities or the Twin Ports.
I have not heard a lot about this “registry.” But, this post makes this sound like it is just exclusively for the LGBT citizens? But does it also give hetero relationships the same abilities too? If not, why not?
What I think Councilman Stueland is concerned about is putting those types of decisions in the hands of the city government in the first place. Why would the city have to be involved in this at all?
Opposition is much less about personal lifestyle and more about individual responsibility and getting your own ducks in a row. I would think we unmarried couples, regardless of orientation can deal with and prepare these finer details ourselves. (If we wanted to.)
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