Google opposes same-sex marriage ban

Awesome! Now I know why I've always chosen Google over Yahoo. I wonder if Google's stand against the ban will swing views in their direction? Let's hope so.

to love is beautiful to be loved is a blessing everyone has that right, its so simple

excellent choice, Google.

Yay for Google AND Levi's!!!

Please don't respond to this unless you have the nerve to read the WHOLE POST.
This is NOT an excellent choice, Google. Same-sex is sin, whether they are married or not. God says it is wrong in Romans 1:26, 27, 28.5 "They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.
26Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. 27In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.
28Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done."

Whether you believe the Bible or not, there has to some basis for what is right and what is wrong...if we just change it to the way we feel, who is to say how you feel is right if it is not the way I feel? What people do in the privacy of their homes is not my business, but the government should not sanction it and give special rights to those who choose to sin.

@Momofnine.... thank you, i've read every word of every post so far placed here, including the original linked document....

i do not believe in the bible, and you apparently do not believe in the right of people who love each other to marry each other.

you appear to base your conclusions on the holy word of your religious text, and don't even listen to yourself when you say, "What people do in the privacy of their homes is not my business..." because you have to add more to that sentence to include government sanctions and your views [learned from YOUR bible,] that any and all homosexual acts are "sins."

so, people who love each other may only marry if they're of opposite genders. because your book says so.

historically, which you will deny or at least not acknowledge, i'm sure, the original rules agains homosexual behavior were to stop [usually Roman] military men from taking young boys from the conquered groups and using them for sexual gratification. it did not apply to Men and Men or Women and Women.

historically, back even thousands of years, men and women were getting together with their own gender and enjoying sex and love.

http://www.plusaf.com/teaching/gay-issues.htm has some thoughts and opinions and links you'll reject, too, i'm sure.

basically, if it's "none of your business" then don't support laws that make it the government's business, either. after all, the government represents you, so you ARE the government.

get out of my friends' bedrooms. you and your beliefs don't belong there and have no rights to be there that you don't vote to give yourself.

and no, "marriage as an institution" hasn't existed forever in the form our current cultures follow, either. it's changed drastically over the millennia, including before Your Book was written.

PLUSAF IS MY HERO!

@melajuana... <blush>.... thank you.

recommend this link here at current and to others...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfL2l1dk8nA

It's great that a mainstream company has put their 2 cents in on something that should not even have graced the floor of the California legislation. More companies need to stand up for what is morally right even if it's unpopular to do so

good for you Google! :)

Google is not espousing homosexuality or gay marriage. Google is espousing equality. Simply that. MomofNINE???? NINE??? Momofnine IS espousing INequality, because in order to validate her "faith" in a literal interpretation of a bad translation (in English from the 1600's of a weak Latin text translated from a poor Greek text -- not of the original languages) of a cobbled-together book (put together by a committee of MEN who hated women and sex between 325 and 650 years AFTER Jesus died), she feels the need to PUNISH others who do her NO HARM. You and Hitler, not to put too fine a point on it. You, Momofnine, can justify your behavior and your words all you want, but you DO NOT KNOW. You are not a linguist, not an historian, not a theologian. You believe what almost NO theologians, historians or linguists believe. Want to find out? Really? Read this book, written by a -- ARE YOU READY? -- Christian, white, American medieval scholar and theologian and linguist. (By the way, momofnine, this man is one of THE most respected scholars in his fields in the last 200 years! and the book has so many footnotes IN THE ORIGINAL LANGUAGES that it will make your head spin.) The book is provocatively entitled, 'Christianity, Social Tolerance and Homosexuality.' I dare you to read it and try to have an intelligent discussion with your pastor, who will gufaw and tell you that it's Satan's work and that the man is of no account (so that you'll listen only to him). Go read the book. Then come back and make holier-than-thou comments to us. I dare you. Yours in Christ....

By the way, Plusaf: Nice website. And, JanaPokana, good post. Thank you to you both.

Oh, and Plusaf, I agree with BusyboyDanny: Great video from HRC.

honestly i think Christians are ruining our country in a big way they censor material getting rid of our first amendment right. This whole gay issue is really stupid why the hell should it even matter when in your eyes they're going to hell anyway so why make them suffer in this life when you believe they will anyway when they die. if they want to "sin" then let them it doesn't affect you or your life so why waste your time on it.

Interesting thread.