Politics: One of These Things is Not Like The Other

It's great news that Wal-Mart has decided to protect gay employees from discrimination. The recent Supreme Court ruling on gay rights has already begun to have an unforseen side-effect: raised awareness of the inequality that exists across America.

However, this New York Times piece on the change in Wal-Mart policy also includes an interesting couple grafs:

With Wal-Mart making the policy change, 9 of the 10 largest Fortune 500 companies now have rules barring discrimination against gay employees, according to the Human Rights Campaign, a gay rights group in Washington, D.C., that monitors discrimination policies and laws.

The exception is the Exxon Mobil Corporation, which was created in 1999 after Exxon acquired Mobil, and then revoked a Mobil policy that provided medical benefits to partners of gay employees, as well as a policy that included sexual orientation as a category of prohibited discrimination.

Hmmm. If anybody needed another reason (see: Exxon Valdez) to not buy gas from Mobil or Exxon, here you go.