google takes stand against prop 8

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Registered: 08-24-2008
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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Registered: 10-07-2003
Mon, 09-29-2008 - 12:58am

Since you were so happy about it, I thought perhaps you'd know something more about their position or future position, or would even venture to offer your opinion about polygamy as a civil right.


Any comment?


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Registered: 08-24-2008
Mon, 09-29-2008 - 1:45am

~Since you were so happy about it, I thought perhaps you'd know something more about their position or future position...~


Actually, I didn't mention it.

 

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Mon, 09-29-2008 - 2:51am
Actually I have less interest in hearing
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Registered: 07-16-2008
Mon, 09-29-2008 - 3:20am

The gays might insist on the right to marry more than one partner some day soon.


*laughs*

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Registered: 10-07-2003
Mon, 09-29-2008 - 3:35am
Given the profound health risks associated with the homosexual lifestyle, do you think it's wise to encourage our children through our school programs to
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Mon, 09-29-2008 - 3:59am

Oh :)

 

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Mon, 09-29-2008 - 7:32am
Does Google support a person's right to simultaneously marry two persons that they love ?

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Mon, 09-29-2008 - 7:34am

Actually I have less interest in hearing

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Registered: 07-05-2006
Mon, 09-29-2008 - 7:35am

Given the profound health risks associated with the homosexual lifestyle, do you think it's wise to encourage our children through our school programs to

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Registered: 09-25-2008
Mon, 09-29-2008 - 8:10am

The exact same thing that established the right of a couple from different racial backgrounds to marry -- a decision by our State Supreme Court that ruled a law banning such marriages unconstitutional.


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