Mattison ([info]agnosticoracle) wrote,
@ 2008-09-30 11:29:00
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Google Supports Marriage Equality
I think I'll keep using gmail.
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 [the gay marriage ban] 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.
I wonder if the coming conservative boycott of Google will be as effective as the one they had against Disney? (When Disney granted "benefits to same-sex employees in domestic partnerships" the AFA ran a 9 year boycott. Disney held it's ground continued to be very profitable and eventually the AFA gave up.)


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[info]cos
2008-09-30 04:21 pm UTC (link)
AFA has been trumpeting the success of their boycott against Ford to their membership in the past year. I think they need to stick to boycotting stagnant companies in troubled industries.

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