Janet Napolitano

Last year, you failed to pass a constitutional amendment to protect traditional marriage.

Your failure to do so gave homosexual advocates the green light to force you and other Arizonans to pay for benefits for their lifestyle choice. [Read article]

Governor Janet Napolitano submitted the change to the Department of Administration which will avoid the entire legislative process.

You now have less than 30 days to leave your comment with the State of Arizona.

Late Note: After digging around the Secretary of State’s website (Good Grief Jan Brewer! You make it too difficult to find this information!) we were able to locate the actual link to the proposed rule change. Click here to read Napolitano’s sweeping policy change.

But just in case you’re wondering what the definition of a “Domestic Partner” is, here is the proposed definition (located on page 4):

“Domestic partner” means a person of the same or opposite gender who:
a. Shares the employee’s or retiree’s permanent residence;
b. Has resided with the employee or retiree continuously for at least the past 12 consecutive months and is expected to continue to reside with the employee or retiree indefinitely as evidenced by an affidavit filed at time of enrollment;
c. Has not signed a declaration or affidavit of domestic partnership with any other person and has not had another domestic partner within the last 12 months;
d. Does not have any other domestic partner, spouse, or spousal equivalent of the same or opposite sex;
e. Is not currently legally married to anyone or legally separated from anyone else;
f. Is not a blood relative any closer than would prohibit marriage;
g. Is mentally competent to consent to contract when the domestic partnership began;
h. Is not acting under fraud or duress;
i. Is at least 18 years of age; and
j. Is financially interdependent with the employee or retiree in at least three of the following ways:
i. Joint mortgage, joint property tax identification, or joint tenancy on a residential lease;
ii. Holding one or more credit or bank accounts jointly, such as a checking account, in both names;
iii. Joint liabilities;
iv. Joint ownership of significant property (e.g., vehicle, real estate, boat);
v. Naming the partner as beneficiary on the employee’s life insurance, under the employee’s will, or employee’s retirement annuities and being named by the partner as beneficiary of the partner’s life insurance, under the partner’s will, or the partner’s retirement annuities; and,
vi. Each agreeing in writing to assume financial responsibility for the welfare of the other (i.e., durable power of attorney); or
vii. Other proof of financial interdependence as approved by the Director.