Google Launches International Campaign For Recognition of Same-Sex Marriage

Apple and many other tech companies have offered benefits to same-sex couples (and sometimes made them a sticking point) for quite some time now, but Google is taking its position of inclusion for sexual minorities outside the company itself; the company has announced an international campaign to promote legal marriage equality for same-sex couples, called "Legalize Love." According to CNN's version of the story, while this represents Google's policies overall, the campaign will at first "focus on countries like Singapore, where certain homosexual activities are illegal, and Poland, which has no legal recognition of same-sex couples." dot429 quotes Mark Palmer-Edgecumbe of Google, speaking in London Saturday at a summit where the initiative was announced: "We want our employees who are gay or lesbian or transgender to have the same experience outside the office as they do in the office. It is obviously a very ambitious piece of work." Also at CNET.

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Supporting employees with dissenting views

[Anonymous Coward]

"We want our employees who are gay or lesbian or transgender to have the same experience outside the office as they do in the office. It is obviously a very ambitious piece of work."

And what about those employees who (for whatever reason) are against same-sex marriage? If Google wants to support their employees does Google also support those people? Or are they just lying about wanting to support employees - Google only wants to support SOME employees who have corporate-approved beliefs and it wants to advocate against views by other employees?

If Google is anti-anti same-sex marriage then it could create a hostile environment who hold views that aren't corporate-approved, no?

Re:adults living together

[jmorris42]

> Marriage is for a man and a woman.

Not exactly. Marriage is one male and N females though, and N == 1 is a fairly common number. What can be said though, and I will be modded into oblivion again are these:

1. Until a hundred years ago my definition above of the word 'marriage' as the union of a male and one or more females in a family unit for purposes of reproduction and inheritence was the only one anyone had ever associated with the word and the similar words found in every human tongue. Until fifty yers ago no mainstream thinker was using the word any other way, although the more 'out there' progressives and homosexual activists were.

2. Since #1 isn't really debatable from a historical perspective, the almost universal meme of 'bible humping fundies and Republicans' trying to 'impose their morality' on others is a myth that needs busting. It is in fact the militant homosexual political activists trying to utilize NewSpeak tricks to redefine language.

You may now mod me into oblivion again. And I will return to excellent karma again and say it yet again in the next thread.

Re:adults living together

[Taco Cowboy]

criticism isn't automatic 'hate'speech, no matter what liberals do to censor criticism of their dogmatism. in these cases, comments like yours should be modded down.

 
 

to this day, if you grab 50 people from one race and 50 from another, then release them into a room full of tables, they'll sort themselves out by race, even if they're otherwise accepting people. It's a preference for most people. it is not 'hate.'

You forgot one very crucial thing:

To the Liberals, anything that they do not agree with they will label it as "Hate" - whether it be Hate-speech, Hate-crime, Hate-thought, et cetera