Where are Gilbert and Sullivan when we need them

[nancylebov]

http://www.gainesville.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060120/LOCAL/201200329/1078/news

University of Florida employees have to pledge that they're having sex with their domestic partners before qualifying for benefits under a new health care plan at the university.

To be fair, the policy has caused so much innocent merriment in the press that it's going to be discontinued, but still, my mind reels with half-formed comedy plots.

Comments

[nosebeepbear.livejournal.com]

University of Florida employees have to pledge that they're having sex with their domestic partners before qualifying for benefits under a new health care plan at the university.

WTF? You don't have to have sex if you're married, so what the hell do they think they're proving? Sigh. Maybe I'll laugh later.

[scruffycritter.livejournal.com]

Your gripe would appear to be with the newspaper and not the university. Nobody said sex except them.

"In addition to declaring joint financial obligations, prospective enrollees must "have been in a non-platonic relationship for the preceding 12 months," according to the affidavit.

[adrian-turtle.livejournal.com]

You don't have to *continue* having sex if you're married. But many definitions of marriage include the idea that a marriage must be consumated to be valid. If the people trying to marry one another do not have sex at least once, the marriage is invalid and can be anulled. Occasionally, an unhappy couple who want a divorce investigates the relevent laws and discovers they were never "really" married in the first place.

[crazysoph.livejournal.com]

Benefits outside of marriage often present a ticklish question, just the same. In the mid-80's, I moved in with the then-proto-dear_hubby, in the Netherlands. Getting my residency papers in order was a hoot, and among the best was the one adding me onto his health insurance. We couldn't check the box that said, "Married", so we had to settle for checking the box next to the statement pledging that we were having an "active" relationship with one another.

Other organizations, like the foreigners' police, were just to see documentation that I shared his bank account, and that he had sufficient funds and living quarters that I was not going to end up on welfare or be living in hovel.

Crazy(and amused)Soph