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Google plans to pay gay employees more (Not a joke!)
MSNBC ^ | 7/1/2010 | msnbc

Posted on 07/01/2010 8:06:18 AM PDT by tobyhill

Google is set to begin covering a cost that gay and lesbian employees must pay when their partners receive domestic partner health benefits, according to a report in the New York Times.

The cost is largely to compensate these workers for an extra tax that heterosexual married couples do not pay. The increase will be retroactive to the beginning of the year, the newspaper said.

Google is not the first large company to make up for the extra tax, the Times reported, adding that Google’s move could inspire its Silicon Valley competitors to follow suit, as they compete for the same talent.

(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: discrimination; downisup; gayday; google; googlebias; homosexualagenda; ixquick; lavendermafia; paygay; samesexmarriage; shackingup; taxes
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1 posted on 07/01/2010 8:06:21 AM PDT by tobyhill
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To: tobyhill

that’s QUEER... no joke...


2 posted on 07/01/2010 8:10:00 AM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole....)
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To: tobyhill
Not to worry! Heterosexual couples loose the marriage deduction on January 1, 2011. So Google will have to pay heterosexual couples more after then!
3 posted on 07/01/2010 8:10:23 AM PDT by SubMareener (Become a monthly donor! Free FreeRepublic.com from Quarterly FReepathons!)
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To: tobyhill

Get hired at Google, tell them you’re gay and you want to get paid more. If they start asking questions, report them to the EOE and sue them for questioning your sexuality.


4 posted on 07/01/2010 8:10:53 AM PDT by wilco200 (11/4/08 - The Day America Jumped the Shark)
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To: tobyhill

“It pays to be a sodomite.” Who’d a’ thunk it?


5 posted on 07/01/2010 8:13:28 AM PDT by twister881
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To: wilco200

When did it become cool to be gay?

It’s one thing to be tolerant and respectful of other people who are different, but something else when all the “gay” issues are in our faces constantly.

Don’t you just love it when the MSM celebrates the latest celebrity who comes out of the closet? Kelly McGillis and Meredith Baxter come to mind. I think one of those said she had it with men, so wanted to be lesbian. Which contradicts what we’re constantly told, that homosexuality is inborn and not anyone’s choice, but, to those pusing liberal causes, intellectual honesty doesn’t matter.


6 posted on 07/01/2010 8:14:39 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: tobyhill

How do they know which employees are gay. I’m gay and my wife is a lesbian if there is some money in it.


7 posted on 07/01/2010 8:16:15 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: wilco200

Absolutely! A guy or gal would be crazy not to take advantage of this. Partner up and collect.


8 posted on 07/01/2010 8:18:07 AM PDT by usslsm51
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To: tobyhill

Hey Boss!

I like Broadway show tunes. A lot.

So pay up with my queer bonus!


9 posted on 07/01/2010 8:18:40 AM PDT by FormerACLUmember ("Subtlety is not going to win this fight": NJ Governor Chris Christie)
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To: AppyPappy

“I’m gay and my wife is a lesbian if there is some money in it.”

HAH!!


10 posted on 07/01/2010 8:19:26 AM PDT by vanilla swirl (Where is the Black Regiment?)
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To: tobyhill

I’m gay and so is my wife!


11 posted on 07/01/2010 8:19:31 AM PDT by The Louiswu (Government is made up of people, individuals who are largely ungoverned)
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To: tobyhill

Hey I have an idea. Some of you dimwits who didn’t know Google was run by leftists should just stop “googling it”.


12 posted on 07/01/2010 8:20:16 AM PDT by lewislynn (What does the global warming movement and the Fairtax movement have in common? Disinformation)
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To: tobyhill

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The only search engine that does not record your IP address.
Your privacy is under attack !

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The identity profiles that can be constructed from this cloud of information represent modern day gold for marketers.
But government officials, hackers and even criminals also have an interest in getting their hands on your personal search data.
And sooner or later they will...

What could happen ?

Consider the following story:

In August 2006, the online world was jarred by the AOL privacy scandal:
AOL released three months’ worth of aggregated search data from 650,000 of its users, publishing all the details in an online database. This database is still searchable. It is an absolute eye-opener to see the potential for privacy nightmares.
—>Enter a query and find who searched for it
—>Then click on a “User ID” to find what else this user searched for

Shocked ? You are not alone.
When we search, we share our most private thoughts with our computers.
These private thoughts should be safe.

Ixquick’s position:

You have a right to privacy.
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13 posted on 07/01/2010 8:23:02 AM PDT by truthandlife ("Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God." (Ps 20:7))
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To: SubMareener
"So Google will have to pay heterosexual couples more after then!"

How much you want to bet that doesn't happen.

14 posted on 07/01/2010 8:27:31 AM PDT by Eagles6 ( Typical White Guy: Christian, Constitutionalist, Heterosexual, Redneck.)
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To: wilco200

Hell, I’d tell them I was a polyamorous homosexual and demand to get paid a lot more.

What’s polyamorous you ask? Well, polyamorous is a fancy way of saying “easy” or “whore”.


15 posted on 07/01/2010 8:28:07 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: tobyhill

Google should be turned into a pillar of salt.


16 posted on 07/01/2010 8:35:55 AM PDT by Wiggins
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To: tobyhill

Where, oh where, is the ACLU!


17 posted on 07/01/2010 8:36:05 AM PDT by RU88
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To: tobyhill

This is discriminatory on the basis on sexual preferenence. Take it to the courts. Sue Google.


18 posted on 07/01/2010 8:37:34 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (I wish our president loved the US military as much as he loves Paul McCartney.)
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To: wilco200; wagglebee
Tell your potential same sex roommates, that as an added bonus, they can have free medical coverage so long as you two claim to your employer that you engage in aberrant sexual acts together.

It's embarrassing, sure, but you will take home a little extra pay and will be insulated against layoffs.

19 posted on 07/01/2010 8:40:46 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (I wish our president loved the US military as much as he loves Paul McCartney.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Kelly McGillis was raped. Hating all men is bigotry same as hating all hispanic people because one robbed you at gunpoint one night.


20 posted on 07/01/2010 8:42:09 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (I wish our president loved the US military as much as he loves Paul McCartney.)
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