On average an extra $1,069 per year will be given to homosexuals, according to a NY Times report.Posted on 07/05/2010 3:15:14 PM PDT by NYer
July 5, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A news release from Google says that the mega-search engine company will begin paying its homosexual employees more than their heterosexual counterparts.
Citing a tax law that says health insurance benefits paid to civil partners of homosexual employees are considered taxable income, while benefits provided to married spouses are not taxed, Google announced it will rectify the tax "discrimination" against homosexuals by paying them the difference.
On average an extra $1,069 per year will be given to homosexuals, according to a NY Times report.
The company said on its blog Thursday, that it will be “grossing-up imputed taxes on health insurance benefits for all same-sex domestic partners in the United States, retroactive to January 1, 2010.”
Google is well known for its endorsement of homosexuality and already has parental leave for homosexuals equivalent to the Family and Medical Leave Act; it is working with its insurers to change the definition of infertility - now defined as the inability to conceive a child after trying for one year - in order to have employee health benefits cover artificial insemination for lesbians.
It was reported that the company made the move in response to complaints from homosexual employees that they were discriminated against by the tax system.
"We said, 'You're right, that doesn't seem fair,' so we looked into it," Google Personnel chief Laszlo Bock told the New York Times. "From that initial suggestion, we said, let's take a look at all the benefits we offer and see if we are being truly fair across the board."
Daryl Herrschaft, director of the Workplace Project at Human Rights Campaign, a homosexual rights advocacy group, applauded Google's new policy.
"They're picking up the slack where the federal government hasn't recognized the reality of diversity in the workforce today," Herrschaft told the media.
"This is eliminating existing discrimination that ... gays and lesbians face in the workplace as a result of federal law that doesn’t acknowledge their families."
However, Focus on the Family spokesman Gary Schneeberger told FoxNews.com that the extra pay given to homosexuals is actually reverse discrimination and does nothing to equalize benefits to employees.
“If Google wants to be truly fair to its employees, it should consider extra compensation to married heterosexuals who are bitten every April 15 by the marriage-penalty tax,” Schneeberger said.
“How is offering more money to only one group to offset a perceived inequity not a form of discrimination against those groups not fortunate enough to receive such bonuses?”
Furthermore, Fox News legal analyst Lis Wiehl said Google's move could open the way for a reverse discrimination lawsuit against the company based on infringement of the statute of equal pay for equal work, and giving preference to benefits based on sexual orientation.
“There’s a potential for a reverse discrimination suit because of the equal pay for equal work statute which says that if I’m doing the same job as the person next to me that my marital status or sexual orientation shouldn’t be taken into consideration. It’s my work performance that should be taken into consideration,” Wiehl told FoxNews.com.
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I started using this when Google began working for the government.
I do Bing for silly things like “Hello Kitty”.
Scroogle was my default search engine but they are having problems with Google again. It’s so bad, they say they may have to permanently retire their scraper. Search for something there and you will see the problem.
Not if Post #5 is right.
Do they also get discounts at Homo Depot?
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Citing a tax law that says health insurance benefits paid to civil partners of homosexual employees are considered taxable income, while benefits provided to married spouses are not taxed, Google announced it will rectify the tax "discrimination" against homosexuals by paying them the difference.Okay, I now want a job with Google, and if any of you get a call for a personal reference on me, tell them I'm a homosexual, and have been a homosexual for about five years, having worked in homosexual positions (ahem) in every state of the union and every province in Canada. Oh, and I was "married" up there, but wound up getting it annulled. /sarc
I'm a lesbian trapped in a male body. Would I get more?
Soooooo...........if you work there, it would make sense to “come out” in buddy-pairs regardless of your actual status. DIdn’t Kevin James and somebody make a movie like that?
I sent them an email in protest, and also had previously sought a way to search quality conservative sites, which you can choose. The answer was to create my own Google own custom Search Engine for Christian apologetical issues. See it at the very bottom of my home page here: http://peacebyjesus.witnesstoday.org/
And read how to do it if you have your own web site here. http://forums.christiansunite.com/index.php?topic=25745.0
Thanks. Searching “HOMOSEXUAL RELATIONS and the BIBLE “ it was better than Google, having my page on it #2, while Google had it nowhere, though it did have the conservapedia copy, but lists sites like the deceptive liberal religious[IN]tolerance.org
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OK, I guess wasn’t aware of this for some reason...thanks for posting. It was a simple matter a minute ago to change my default search engine to Bing.
This should get them into a court case.
Well, I guess all Hetero’s could “claim” to be Homo’s!
“My wife has a gay cousin who has been with his partner for about 20 years. At the recent baptism of my granddaughter, he mentioned that he and his partner wanted to have a child. I told him that, if that was the case, they were “doing it” wrong. He was not amused.”
ROTFLMAO!
Huh. Guess I will have to look on bing.com to see whether a reverse discrimination suit is forthcoming...
OTOH, being too lazy to look up where Google is headquartered (within in the 9th Circus, I'm sorry, 9th Circuit District, perhaps?) this might fly for a while...
It's still an idiotic move, PR wise.
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