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MANHATTAN, May 20 (LSN) – Bell Atlantic employee Paul Foray launched a $500,000 lawsuit against his employer yesterday, saying the phone company refuses to give health benefits to his live-in girlfriend,  but does give them to the partners of gay employees. Foray’s lawyer Linda Cronin, said, “He is being discriminated against because he is a male with a female domestic partner If he were a female with a female domestic partner, he would get benefits.” Bell Atlantic responded in a statement yesterday,  saying, “We believe that our policy on domestic-partner benefits complies fully with all applicable laws and regulations.”