The film that I watched was "Freeheld" which discusses the discrimination of a New Jersey county against gay/ lesbian couples who wish for their partners to receive state benefits that a straight couple would automatically receive. The oppression against the GLBT community can jeopardize a person's life chances in extreme ways. Such as the film "Queer Street" where the young GLBT community are forced into homeless housing and prostitution after their families rejected them for their sexual orientation and so on or the working communities discrimination against trans-gender individuals because most costumers would be taken aback by people that they cannot determine to be a male of a woman. It is particularly interesting when trans-gender individuals who pass well for the opposite sex are still rejected when an employer sees their license.
In our government, fair and balanced do not exist there or on "Fox News" either for that matter. Many states do not allow gay marriage and not the majority of states even allow civil unions. The heterosexual family is the only family consistently acknowledged by the government and consistently receive the benefits of that recognition. The GLBT couples are not considered by the majority of this countries adoption agencies to be a viable form of family and housing for an orphan. Even though the federal government does not allow discrimination in the work place, there is still by large margin discrimination by employers and there is obvious discrimination in the fabric of our government in itself.
In "Freeheld," the state government of New Jersey said in a press release that it had no political agenda set up for enacting this bill. Why would they need to say that? If it was a bill protecting heterosexual couples, the state government would never have put that statement in their press release. The government officials say through that statement: "Please! Please still vote for me next term even though I am furthering equality in our state!
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