9/26/2008 03:23:00 PM As an Internet company, Google is an active participant in policy debates surrounding information access, technology and energy. Because our company has a great diversity of people and opinions -- Democrats and Republicans, conservatives and liberals, all religions and no religion, straight and gay -- we do not generally take a position on issues outside of our field, especially not social issues. So when Proposition 8 appeared on the California ballot, it was an unlikely question for Google to take an official company position on.
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.
Posted by Sergey Brin, Co-founder & President, Technology
Damn that Google! Anti Mormon and pro gay! . . .
... our church isn't true, but we have to keep up appearances so we don't get shunned by our friends and family, fired from our jobs, kicked out of our homes, ... Please don't tell on me. ~maklelan
liz3564 wrote:How is Google anti-Mormon? Or are you just stating that anyone who opposes prop 8 is Anti-Mormon?
I like their statement, and agree with it, by the way.
Many Mormons feel Google is anti Mormon by way of how it aids in destroying testiphonies one search word at a time.
It was my guide out of the cult.
... our church isn't true, but we have to keep up appearances so we don't get shunned by our friends and family, fired from our jobs, kicked out of our homes, ... Please don't tell on me. ~maklelan
I've never felt google was "anti-Mormon," and have never met a Mormon who did.
One moment in annihilation's waste, one moment, of the well of life to taste- The stars are setting and the caravan starts for the dawn of nothing; Oh, make haste! -Omar Khayaam
And I never met an American who thought Google was anti-American.
That ripping sound you hear is some people stretching this little factoid beyond it's capacity to hold truth.
(Nevo, Jan 23) And the Melchizedek Priesthood may not have been restored until the summer of 1830, several months after the organization of the Church.
Gazelam wrote:That spokeman Sergey Brin sets off my Alarm system(gay)
How typical for you mindless Mormons.
You assume he is gay simply because he appears single and is against prop 8?
Why don't you ask his wife Anne Wojcicki:
FYI, I found this by simply Googling Sergey's name.
... our church isn't true, but we have to keep up appearances so we don't get shunned by our friends and family, fired from our jobs, kicked out of our homes, ... Please don't tell on me. ~maklelan
