For purely competitive reasons, corporate America increasingly prefers treating same sex partners the same as straight partners.
"In 1998 just 13% of the FORTUNE 500 offered benefits packages for same-sex partners of their employees. Today, according to the Human Rights Campaign, a lesbian and gay advocacy group, that number has increased to 40%. Most of those programs offer domestic partners the same raft of benefits given to heterosexual spouses.
...they are dreading the possible passage of President Bush's proposed Constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage. It could mean, for instance, that existing benefits plans for same-sex couples could be legally challenged as unconstitutional." - Fortune
