Google Officially Opposes California's Prop 8

A bit of joyous news from the company that rules all our data and searches: Google has officially announced opposition to California's Proposition 8, which would amend the state constitution to make same sex marriage illegal and nullify the nuptials that have already been conducted.

In an entry on Google's official blog, co-founder Sergey Brin made Google's position clear:

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.

The fact that one of the biggest tech companies in the world has acknowledged that this is a fundamental issue of equal rights counts for a lot.

Thank you, Google - you've certainly earned kudos from us here at Homotron.

Our position on California's No on 8 campaign [Google]