A story about the continuing controversy over whether public employers, such as state universities, can legally offer benefits to same sex partners focuses on Dahlia Schwartz and Dr. Kathleen Moltz, professor of pediatric endocrinology and diabetes at the Wayne State University School of Medicine. They are plaintiffs in a suit filed by the ACLU that contends that Michigan 's constitutional amendment limiting marriage to one man and one woman does not bar public employers from providing benefits to an employee's domestic partner and children. The issue is working its way through the courts and could eventually end up in the Michigan Supreme Court.