[ALUmnus]

HMO, the company you love so much, may love certain people just a little differently than you love people.

But Google and Apple aren’t just working on hardware and software -- the two tech giants are also pushing a social agenda in California by donating $140,000 and $100,000 respectively to opponents of ballot Proposition 8. The amendment would legally define marriage as between a man and a woman, and would invalidate even existing same-sex marriages in California.

Apple currently allows equal rights and benefits to employees’ same-sex partners, and has made public statements of opposition to the amendment, which is being brought to a vote due to petitioning by evangelical activists and the Mormon Church. Google has made a similar public statement as Apple’s.

Google co-founder Sergey Brin said earlier this year, "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.”

http://www.fastcompany.com/news/2008/10 ... digg=rules

On a side note, that poposition being on the ballot may be an aid to McCain in California as far as bringing conservative voters to the polls, but it's still a long shot.

[SumItUp]

What ever happened to Sergey's company charge, "Don't be evil"?

I guess the real question is, what does he use as his basis to define evil. Ahhhhhhhhhhh, that's it. We're reading different books.