here regarding Proposition 8. This is a HUGE step toward taking rights AWAY from California Residents and US Citizens living in this lovely state. Anyway, I’m going to go ahead and post the entire text here, but you can follow the links above to read more:
I will just state that I’m voting NO on this. It’s unprecedented that some folks think we should use the constitution to take rights away from citizens. Vote NO and stop this horse-puckey from happening! Thanks for visiting and Keep Coming Back!!! PS: links in the blockquote have been adjusted to open in new window]]>Our position on California’s No on 8 campaign
9/26/2008 03:23:00 PMAs 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.
Here’s a great common sense letter to the editor from the Modesto Bee:
Let same-sex couples marry
In Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court ruled that “separate but equal” was not valid for education. It is not valid for gay marriage either.
Marriage for gay couples will have no effect on my marriage or anyone else’s. Prohibiting any group from enjoying the freedom of others is a very slippery slope. No church is required to marry anyone. They can just say no. Vote “no” on Proposition 8.
GENE COFFMAN
Escalon