It’s almost as if forces are aligning to support my plan! When Western provided “DEI” support, which allows employees to cover one other person that they know with healthcare. When it was first offered I couldn’t help but laugh at it. What a way to go. To provide domestic partner benefits to homosexuals without saying you are doing so. I give this place extra credit on one hand and I laugh about the bullshit from the state on the other hand. That we need guerilla tactics to provide employees with equality, that really takes the cake. I didn’t opt to do it because the DEI package would have bankrupted me. I can’t afford the costs and the lower pay, I’m scrabbling by as it is, but I did appreciate what the University was doing, albeit underhanded and guerilla-fashion.
Now New York State is on the edge of approving Gay Marriage and Michigan is doing whatever it can to punish Universities that offer DEI either by outright persecution or, apparently in the most recent attack, attaching a 5% reduction in state aid to the Universities that dare offer equality protections like DEI. Here in Michigan it’s all being led by Representative David Agema from Grandville. He’s a republican, of course, and I have no idea where Grandville is nor do I care. In many ways I think of Rep. Agema of doing me a huge favor. I know my kind isn’t respected, wanted, or tolerated by the people of Michigan – I’ve made peace with that fact and life goes on.
Once I can afford a move, I will be going back to New York State. It is quite obvious that my time in Michigan is limited, people like me know when we aren’t wanted so all that matters is just getting out of debt, saving up, and making that move from a state that doesn’t care to one that does.