e' ask force etroit do DETROIT (AP) - Members of a ask force crafting plans to give more .ghts to gay or other unmarried couples redict city residents will go along with he plans, mostly because they have ther things to worry about. "They're not worried about who ou're sleeping with in Detroit," Jim D. runell said. "They're worried about rime. They're worried about putting ood on the table." Most but not all Detroit residents are olerant enough to accept the change, runell said. He and his partner, Rob Fetzer, are embers of a task force that is writing roposals for presentation to Detroit ity Council by the end of the year. Theproposals include havingthe city set up a way for couples to register as omestic partners. While domestic partners would not ave all the rights ofspouses, they would e able to visit one another in hospitals r jail. And under another proposal, hoselwhose partners are city employ- es would be eligible for health and ther.benefits. Nejther Fetzer nor Brunell works for he city. But they say the changes are he right thing to do. predicts approval of mestic partners law Kj' ," The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, November 15, 1995 - 7 "They are one more step toward mak- ing this nation more tolerant of people who are different," said Brunell, 34. Ann Arbor is among about 20 cities that allow unmarried couples to regis- ter as domestic partners. Since 1991, Ann Arbor has registered 131 domes- tic partners, city clerk aide Herb Katz said. One proposal going to the Detroit City Council would let city residents register as domestic partners if they are unrelated, at least 18 years old, live together, share expenses, are unmar- ried and do not share a domestic part- nership with another person. The registration is expected to cost about $23. Another proposal would grant the domestic partners of any of the city's 17,000 employees health and dental benefits as long as they are not already covered. Already, more than 150 public and private employers in the United States recognize the domestic partners of their employees and give them some ben- efits. In many cities, however, local laws and attitudes of the electorate and com- pany officials have been slow to change. A proposal to extend benefits to do- mestic partners of employees of the city of Seattle sparked such a controversy that the question was put to voters in the form of a referendum. That referendum passed in November 1990, but in Aus- tin, voters in 1994 repealed a similar provision for the companions of its city employees. Typically, less than 3 percent of a work force takes domestic partner cov- erage when it is offered, usually be- cause many partners are already cov- eredby their own employers, according to a 1994 study by Hewitt Associates, an employee benefits and compensa- tion consulting firm. In companies where coverage is of- fered, about 70 percent of the couples are heterosexual, the study showed. 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