MOSCOW, Idaho—The Moscow City Council has reaffirmed its support for extending health insurance benefits to domestic partners of city employees, despite an opinion from the state attorney general’s office that it likely conflicts with a 2006 amendment to the Idaho Constitution.

Idaho voters passed the amendment to ban same-sex marriages, domestic partnerships and civil unions.

In December, the Moscow City Council approved the resolution to extend domestic partner benefits to city employees. Last month, the attorney general’s office said the resolution would likely lose in court if challenged.

Still, council members Wayne Krauss, Tom Lamar, Bill Lambert and John Weber voted March 3 to support the resolution offering the Regence Blue Shield of Idaho benefits to city employees’ same- and opposite-sex partners and their partners’ dependents.

Krauss asked city staff to look at broadening the benefits to include employees’ parents, siblings and adult children, the Moscow-Pullman Daily News reported.

“If this is the right thing to do, then it seems to me the right thing to do is to take it further than we’re taking it,” he said.

No city employees have so far signed up for the benefits.