This from the Wisconsin Gazette, the remarkably readable LGBT paper, Milwaukee-based but distributed statewide, in an article on Gov. Scott Walker's decision to drop the state's defense of the state domestic partner registry law. Published here, as there, with no further comment:
Julaine Appling, president of Wisconsin Family Action, sued to overturn the law in 2009, charging that it violates a 2006 amendment to the state constitution banning legal arrangements that mirror marriage between same-sex partners.
Appling, who has never married or had children, lives with a longtime female companion in a home that the two own jointly in Watertown.