Google comes out against Proposition 8.»

[babylonsister]

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/27/google-comes-out-against-proposition-8/

Google comes out against Proposition 8.»

Proposition 8, a California constitutional amendment that would ban same-sex marriage, has attracted an unlikely assortment of foes, including Vice President Cheney’s daughter Mary, Brad Pitt, and Steven Spielberg. Yesterday, Google also took the unusual step of jumping in, noting that because it has a “great diversity of people and opinions” at the company, it rarely takes “a position on issues outside of our field, especially not social issues”:

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.

[Maven]

1. WOW

K/R

[joeybee12]

2. Techies are a very progressive group as a whole...I think it tends to

be that they can understand those who are outsiders...face it, they probably all grew up as nerds and outsiders, and can understand those who also are alienated. Lucky for them they now rule the known world.

[dickthegrouch]

3. This was in GD, but we mustn't get complacent

And my response to it:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x4103952#4109027