Google urges voters: Trash traditional marriage

http://worldnetdaily.com ^ | Posted: September 29, 2008 | By Bob Unruh

[Maelstorm]

Google, the Internet search behemoth, is urging Californians to trash traditional marriage with a new website statement that campaigns against a constitutional amendment proposal that would define – again – marriage in California as being between one man and one woman.

Voters in 2000 approved, with support from 61.4 percent of the people, that definition. But it was summarily thrown out in May by the state Supreme Court in an opinion written by Judge Ron George who said, "an individual's sexual orientation … like a person's race or gender … does not constitute a legitimate basis upon which to deny or withhold legal rights."

More than a million Californians signed a petition to put the same definition into the state constitution, a move that would take it further than the state law approved in 2000 and beyond the reach of activist judges. That has been approved for the 2008 election ballot. Google, however, says the judges were right to disregard the will of California voters on the issue and create "marriage" for same-sex duos.

"It is the chilling and discriminatory effect of the proposition on many of our employees that brings Google to publicly oppose Proposition 8," said the statement, posted on the blog by Sergey Brin, co-founder and president of technology. "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.

[rhinohunter]

While we celebrate the decline of the dinosaur media, does it disturb anyone that the leftist vermin are gaining control of the new media?

[dolphins]

That’s BS when he says we have Democrats and Republicans.... this company is very liberal... I know I live in Mtn. View and am neighbors with a Googler. They are very self righteous and like to tell us commoners how to live. You can add in lots of Silicon Valley companies to the list, LinkedIn is another liberal company in my opinion.

[rfp1234]

Guck Foogle.

Goycott Boogle.

[Dante3]

The Russian Communist Party during the late 1930s and early 1940s tried to eliminate traditional family and marriage for ideological reasons. Its consequences were so sever that they had no choice but to reverse the trend even though they hated doing it. This experiment indicate the importance of traditional marriage/family for for individuals and society.

[DirtyHarryY2K]

I’d be interested to read more about that. got a link to anything on that?

[dan1123]

So Google is on board with legally redefining reality? Why stop at marriage then? We could use some help with California wildfires:

[dan1123]

I think the focus on marriage has been a good thing. Some states are starting to adopt more strict options with covenant marriage laws to make divorce harder and thus marriage more meaningful. I doubt California will be any sort of leader on this movement though.