According to the Boston Globe, as well as a few other gay news sources, several companies, including IBM Corp, the Boston Medical Center, and the New York Times Co., are removing benefits for unmarried homosexual partners:

“If you’re a same-sex domestic partner, you now have the same option heterosexuals have, so we have to apply the same rules to you,” said Larry Emerson, Baystate’s vice president of human resources.

This seems very fair to me, if homosexuals can get “married”, like heterosexuals, why must they still have the extra privilege of having benefits for unmarried partners? Should they have more privileges then heterosexuals, who would not get benefits for their partners unless they got married? It seems to make sense to me, and I congratulate these companies for making such a wise decision. But it seems like to the homosexuals of Massachusetts it is horribly unfair — the GLAD (Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders) staff attorney has been quoted as saying:

“There are layers of discrimination, this is a civil rights battle, and it’s going to take a matter of time but we are taking steps forward.”

This is not a matter of “civil rights” at all, it is complete fairness! It is just a matter of these companies/organizations standing up and deciding NOT to discriminate. If they offer extra benefits to unmarried gays, they would be discriminating against unmarried heterosexual people!