Private employers, yes. But you are framing this the wrong way - it's not a question of being obligated to provide health insurance, it is a question of whether a public employer is now prohibited from providing health insurance to a class of persons that it would like to. The one Mecklenburg County Commissioner's position is that public employers now cannot provide domestic partner benefits since marriage between a man and a woman is now the only domestic union that is recognized by the state. That would obviously be a huge change. I bet there will be many people other people trying to make that argument. And as the AGAINST side has been saying from the beginning, this was one of the huge problems with Amendment One - it is poorly worded, vague, and now there are going to be all sorts of legal battles fought to have it interpreted. No scare tactic at all - this is exactly one of the consequences the AGAINST side said would happen.
