A Private-Sector Employer Is Permitted to Offer Domestic Partner Benefits

A private-sector employer is permitted to offer domestic partner benefits to unmarried heterosexual couples and homosexual couples:

A) because such benefits are mandatory under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
B) only if it can be shown that the other employees have no problems with the employer providing such benefits.
C) if the employer wishes to harvest the benefits of a diverse workplace.
D) only if the Supreme Court orders the employer to provide such benefits as part of an affirmative action plan.