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: 07-05-2006
Mon, 09-29-2008 - 5:24pm

Thank you for stating exactly how I feel about this.


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Registered: 03-19-2003
Mon, 09-29-2008 - 5:32pm
Wouldn't pass because women already have the right to vote.
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Registered: 09-25-2008
Mon, 09-29-2008 - 5:36pm

and in California same sex couples ALREADY HAVE THE RIGHT TO MARRY.

this change would vote away an already existing right.

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Registered: 08-24-2008
Mon, 09-29-2008 - 6:24pm

~and in California same sex couples ALREADY HAVE THE RIGHT TO MARRY~


Yes, they certainly do.

 

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Registered: 08-24-2008
Mon, 09-29-2008 - 6:34pm

~ it is not the job of the State to determine who can marry, which is why I prefer to categorize this as the "adult marriage"~


Understood.

 

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Registered: 09-29-2003
Mon, 09-29-2008 - 10:41pm

>>and in California same sex couples ALREADY HAVE THE RIGHT TO MARRY.



this change would vote away an already existing right.<<


Exactly!


 


Mich

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Registered: 09-29-2003
Mon, 09-29-2008 - 10:44pm
>>Pacific Gas & Electric, which supplies gas and electricity to


 


Mich

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Registered: 10-07-2003
Wed, 10-01-2008 - 4:46am
Because you are just inclined to feel that way I guess.
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Registered: 10-07-2003
Wed, 10-01-2008 - 4:49am

Wow- that sounded a bit like a personal attack.

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Registered: 10-07-2003
Wed, 10-01-2008 - 5:02am

You said:


"This November California will prove to the nation our leadership in deciding as a state that we will NOT remove the right to marry from same sex couples, that we actually 'get' what rights mean."


Then I said:


You mention removing the "...right to marry from same sex couples...". What exactly established that supposed right?


Then you said:


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.


So from your viewpoint you see that the right to marry someone of the same gender comes solely from a court decision.

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