Reflection ch. 9

"Each year, more and more major corporations grant financial benefits to unmarried, same-sex domestic partners".

If I'm understanding this quote correctly its saying that big corporations are giving bigger and better financial benefits for people that are gay and not giving the same benefits for straight people. For some reason this seems to fall off of the equality for everybody issues that seem to always be coming up in homosexual vs. heterosexual arguments. I guess I just dont understand how people can fight to be equal with everyone, but then expect to have different support in other areas. It seems that this issue happens in civil rights, racial rights, anything that people say isnt the norm. Newman writes that corporations do this because it seems to increase workers satisfaction and motivates them to do better work. I'm sorry but if I worked for a company that gave more money to someone because they were gay I dont think it would make me more motivated, it would probably make me more pissed off and have a worse work ethic. For years upon years Americans have been fighting for equality in every aspect you could think of. People either need to give up on the fact that were not all equal, or actually make things equal so people cant bitch about stupid things anymore.