http://nerdlets.org/2008/09/26/google-takes-a-stand/ Christianity/Culture/Computing Sun, 07 Feb 2010 03:48:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://nerdlets.org/2008/09/26/google-takes-a-stand/comment-page-1/#comment-331 Jamnastic Sat, 27 Sep 2008 10:59:10 +0000 http://www.nerdlets.org/2008/09/26/google-takes-a-stand/#comment-331 This is sad. It's the modern version of "church and state", now its multinational companies and politics mixing where they shouldn't. "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." (Google blog) This argument with exactly this same words could be used to support marriage between an adult and a minor, and polygamy, and even forced marriages. Something is very wrong here. I am getting quite frustrated with the amount of people thinking that issue is about equality. It's not. Equality has already been achieved. All adults have the right to marry an adult of the opposite biological sex, regardless of sexual orientation. There is no discrimination. What most people in the gay/lesbian/transgendaral/etc camp want is to redefine marriage, and to give, not just themselves, but everyone extra rights, ie, the right to marry an adult of the same biological sex. They want extra rights for everyone, not a right that everyone but them already has. So it's not about equality at all. It's about the definition of marriage, something I don't think Google as a multinational company should have an official policy on. This is sad. It’s the modern version of “church and state”, now its multinational companies and politics mixing where they shouldn’t.
“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.” (Google blog)
This argument with exactly this same words could be used to support marriage between an adult and a minor, and polygamy, and even forced marriages. Something is very wrong here.
I am getting quite frustrated with the amount of people thinking that issue is about equality. It’s not. Equality has already been achieved. All adults have the right to marry an adult of the opposite biological sex, regardless of sexual orientation. There is no discrimination. What most people in the gay/lesbian/transgendaral/etc camp want is to redefine marriage, and to give, not just themselves, but everyone extra rights, ie, the right to marry an adult of the same biological sex. They want extra rights for everyone, not a right that everyone but them already has.
So it’s not about equality at all. It’s about the definition of marriage, something I don’t think Google as a multinational company should have an official policy on.

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