weswelker#83

Google publicly backs gay marriage
Official Google Blog: Our position on California's No on 8 campaign





"we should not eliminate anyone's fundamental rights, whatever their sexuality, to marry the person they love."

Agreed!




Now , conservatives ,will make a search with yahoo and msn,instead.
Good luck guys

Michael

I agree too but, what the hell is with Google stating political opinions?

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IcyPatriot

Good for them and good for gay marriage.
Anyone who claims to be for freedom should not oppose gay marriage.
People who are gay should enjoy every right and privelage that every other American enjoys. Let the churches decide if they want to marry gay people or not and that satisfies seperation of church and state. As far as the state is concerned they should issue the license like they do for heteros ... American freedom and the Constitution guarantees it IMO.

weswelker#83

why not ?

It is company made by people for people. It s not like a machine with no feelings and out of touch like some people eh?

Wildo7

I obviously agree with their stance but it's totally hypocritical for a corporation that is complicit in China's oppressive regime to be talking about fundamental human rights.

Real World

Thanks for saving me the trouble. Google is all Pc when it's good pub, but check out how they've red curtained their ops in China. Gross. All to make a buck.

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"The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him."
Leo Tolstoy, 1897

IcyPatriot

Google + Microsoft = Big Brother ... 1984 lives on.

Patters

A corporate board's goal is to increase shareholder weatlh. This may involve attracting and retaining employees and expanding market share. Companies tend to look at nothing more than the bottom line. As far as RW's point about Google in China, can he provide a list of publicly traded companies that refuse to do business in China? Many companies, including some conservative ones, to attract and retain talent as well as to expand market share, embrace all sorts of minorities. It's one of the good things about capitalism. Corporate board members will prostitute their beliefs for a buck.

Real World

Why do I need to provide a list, when we're talking about Google specifically. BTW, it wasn't just my point, it was Wildo's too.

I love how frauds like Patters chastize "corporations" one day, then coddle them with praise then next. When a corp does something evil it's "greedy capitalism", when they do something he likes it's "attracting and retaining employees".

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"The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him."
Leo Tolstoy, 1897

Patters

Yes, when a corporation does something evil it's greedy capitalism. When a corporation does something good (such as support gays, implement affirmative action, build in poor areas, and so on) it's good capitalism. I have said time and again I support good capitalism. As far as Google in China, that's a tough issue because China has taken steps towards greater freedom and democracy and, as a young country, it needs some latitude to evolve. Let's remember, part of our growing pain involved the murder of Indians, the enslavement of blacks, and denying equal rights to women. By that measure, China is certainly no worse than we are. I think affording them some latitude while continuing to exert pressure on them to change is and has been the right strategy.