September 29, 2008 | Online

Google goes gay against prop 8

Google co-founder Sergey Brin went on record through his blog on Friday stating that . With the company's headquarters in California and nearly 20,000 employees, Brin sees gay marriage as an issue of equality.

"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."

In May the California Supreme Court overturned a ban on same-sex marriages in the state, but opponents of gay lovin' have decided to bring it to the fore during the upcoming election. It will appear as a ballot question in California.

Whether or not Google will provide financial support against the initiative we do not know, but we're sure they can throw a few pennies towards stopping the forces of evil.