Google Takes Stance Against Anti-Gay Marriage Ban in Calif.

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on September 29, 2008 - 12:55pm.

Mountain View, Calif. - In a statement that notes the company "[does] not generally take a position on issues outside of our field, especially not social issues," Google (NASD: GOOG) has taken an official stance opposing California's Proposition 8, which would eliminate the California Supreme Court-sanctioned right of same-sex couples to get married in the state. "It is the chilling and discriminatory effect of the proposition on many of our employees that brings Google to publicly oppose Proposition 8," Google co-founder and president Sergey Brin wrote in a post on the company's official blog. "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."

 

Related Links:
http://snipurl.com/3y3ix (Google blog)

tags: Law | Policy | Google | LGBT |


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