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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.
Possibly worth noting that on Saturday in London was World Pride 2012, and representatives from Google were among the groups in the parade (photo)
Because the mind of a 7-year-old is not mature enough to know whether or not it really wants to marry anyone, let alone a 68-year old. I don't see why that's relevant.
I'm not sure what being natural has to do with a man-made institution like marriage, but homosexuality is indeed natural: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexual_animals
Also, the difference between homosexuals marrying and children marrying is consent. The same goes for marrying animals as that is another argument that is often brought up by homophobic people like yourself in this kind of debate.
But their is a difference between says all couples of any gender pairing in our emply gets benefits and campaigning to make it so everywhere.
gay marriage and equality is all well and good but then that is not the only thing a corporation can campaign for. I think it would make a lot of sense for laws to prohibit corporations from taking sides in societies issues.
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Did you notice the first link in the post (http://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/08/us/texas-county-retreats-over-apple-s-gay-policy.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm)? It was Apple sticking up for its gay employees back in 1993.
Apple also recently elevated a talented, gay employee to the most powerful position in the entire company. Tim Cook is probably the most powerful gay man in the entire world.
So if people who are getting married, they get married by the government. If they want to undergo a ritual somewhere else, like in a church, that can be done separately.
That is how it is done in at least Belgium and Germany and probably other countries as well.
It should then be extremely easy to allow same sex marriage as government should not discriminate on gender.
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
Again, no, it isn't. Monogamous marriages were a secular Roman practice (most societies before that were polygamous.) The Catholic church may have interpreted some scripture to turn a civil practice into a sacrament, but the civil practice preceded it historically and structurally.
The etymology of "marriage" is from the Latin "maritare."
"What I'd really like to hear is for a gay marriage advocate to explain to me why polygamy should be illegal yet gay marriage should be legal."
Why would they? As you point out, polygamy has worked in many societies and the only objections to it are RELIGIOUS.
There is no logical secular objection to polygamy or polyandry or "poly-cluster" sexual unions. Where existing contracts don't cover the bases, add riders to the base marriage contract and have at it!
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The concept of marriage is not strictly religious. Many cultures have had marriage but not necessarily tied to any religion. Buddhism for example considers marriage a matter for the state and not the religion. Those who are opposing gay marriage want to thrust their religious beliefs into the definition. Predominantly the religion they want to define marriage is a Protestant Christian one. Marriage existed in some form long before Christianity. As an legal institution, marriage has been used to convey inheritance and transfer of property. Women were the property being transferred and children born in wedlock were considered true heirs to any wealth whereas other children were not.
Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
Over 90% of the pre-war Jewish population of Poland was killed during the war. Most of the survivors left for Israel as soon as that option was opened up.
By contrast, Denmark had a 99% survival rate for its Jews. Bulgaria managed a similar survival rate, in spite of being a German Ally. Even France managed >75% survival rate.
Just curious, which countries fit the "most Occupied states" you mentioned?
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Poland has a much smaller population than California.
California 37.7 million. (2012)
Poland 38.4 million. (2011)
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