Prejudice Triumphs in Eastchester NY

This from the NY Times today -- "Town Rescinds Health Benefits for Partners" -- is so sad. The rationale:

"This is a real victory," Raymond W. Belair, a lawyer with Family First, a local group that opposed the policy, said yesterday....This was always about the gay lobby chipping away to get to marriage," Mr. Belair said. "And right now there is nothing more important than preserving marriage."

I wonder if this applies as well to unmarried heterosexual couples. But, regardless, someone really needs to explain to me how providing health insurance, pension rights, etc, to unmarried couples threatens marriage -- or how depriving unmarried couples of those benefits preserves it.