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Google Launches International Campaign For Recognition of Same-Sex Marriage

Posted by timothy on from the personal-autonomy-is-a-good-thing dept.

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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  1. it's a plot. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    See corporations are people without gender. They want to be able to marry each other.

    Then they can file a joint tax return and have children.

    1. Re:it's a plot. by interkin3tic · · Score: 5, Funny

      It will be their undoing. Corporations were immortal, but marriage and kids kill anyone.

  2. Sounds fair by lennier1 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Why shouldn't gays have the right to live in misery like the rest of us?

  3. Re:So now Google is literally a bunch of faggots? by NiceGeek · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wow only two comments in and some idiot managed to compare a consensual relationship between adults to pedophilia. Next up, some ignoramus saying "but what if a guy wants to marry his Great Dane?"
     

  4. Re:So now Google is literally a bunch of faggots? by PolygamousRanchKid+ · · Score: 3, Funny

    "but what if a guy wants to marry his Great Dane?"

    He'd have to train the Great Dane to say "I do" first.

    If you can manage that feat, then it would ok.

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  5. Re:What about ladyboys? by PolygamousRanchKid+ · · Score: 5, Funny

    where the gender field is a variable-length string instead of a one-bit value

    640K of gender bits ought to be enough for anybody.

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  6. Re:Google isn't an arm of the US Govt. by Sqr(twg) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Poland has a much smaller population than California.

    California 37.7 million. (2012)

    Poland 38.4 million. (2011)

    California: 87 kg (191 lbs)
    Poland: 76 kg (168 lbs)

    FTFY