Google Takes Stance Against Calif. Proposal to Eliminate Gay Marriage

Mountain View, Calif. -- In a most unusual move for any company, much less one of the world's largest technology firms, Mountain View-based Google has taken an official stance opposing California's Proposition 8, which would eliminate the state Supreme Court-sanctioned right of same-sex couples to get married. "It is the chilling and discriminatory effect of the proposition on many of our employees that brings Google to publicly oppose Proposition 8," Sergey Brin, Google's co-founder and president, wrote in the company's official blog. "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." Google added that it "[does] not generally take a position on issues outside of our field, especially not social issues."
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