google takes stand against prop 8
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| Sun, 09-28-2008 - 2:09am |
Just a happy little moment :)
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/our-position-on-californias-no-on-8.html
Our position on California's No on 8 campaign
9/26/2008 03:23:00 PM
As an Internet company, Google is an active participant in policy debates surrounding information access, technology and energy. Because our company has a great diversity of people and opinions -- Democrats and Republicans, conservatives and liberals, all religions and no religion, straight and gay -- we do not generally take a position on issues outside of our field, especially not social issues. So when Proposition 8 appeared on the California ballot, it was an unlikely question for Google to take an official company position on.
However, while there are many objections to this proposition -- further government encroachment on personal lives, ambiguously written text -- it is the chilling and discriminatory effect of the proposition on many of our employees that brings Google to publicly oppose Proposition 8. While we respect the strongly-held beliefs that people have on both sides of this argument, we see this fundamentally as an issue of equality. We hope that California voters will vote no on Proposition 8 -- we should not eliminate anyone's fundamental rights, whatever their sexuality, to marry the person they love.
Posted by Sergey Brin, Co-founder & President, Technology

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These are the reasons for the LDS & other Christian church's concerns:
A court-created right to same-sex marriage could undermine First Amendment protections of religion. "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. Last June, National Public Radio aired the story, "When Gay Rights and Religious Liberties Clash." The story notes that "armed with legal protections (granted by some states), same-sex couples are beginning to challenge the policies of religious organizations that exclude them, claiming that a religious group's view that homosexual marriage is a sin cannot be used to violate their right to equal treatment ... and so far, the religious groups are losing." The story cites numerous examples of conflicts relating to church-sponsored adoption services, housing at religious schools, and forcing Christian doctors to perform medical procedures that violate their conscience.
Indeed.
Frankly, it's completely offensive not to mention ridiculous.
Gayness is not a disease or a problem or a disorder and people don't "decide" to be gay or not gay. You have no right to demean another human being because of your personal prejudices. Gay people dont need your "help" nor do they want it. I am proud to live in MA which recognizes the right of people to live and love and marry regardless of sexual orientation. I applaud Google for taking this stand and hope that, before much longer, this ridiculous prejudice is overcome. And, no, I'm not gay-I'm a married heterosexual.
Just to add, Biden would say "no" to Prop 8 :)
Biden on Ellen:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlGqX0E6QDo
And Sarah Palin would say yes, as she favors a Federal Constititional Amendment banning Gay Marriage.
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