Apple fights Proposition 8

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology...-against-t.html

 

Apple is contributing $100,000 to fight Proposition 8, the California ballot measure that would define marriage as only between a man and a woman. The company's announcement today came as the fight over Prop. 8 grows hotly contested, with recent polls showing the race tightening.

 

The Cupertino, Calif.-based company said in a statement:

 

Apple was among the first California companies to offer equal rights and benefits to our employees' same-sex partners, and we strongly believe that a person's fundamental rights-- including the right to marry -- should not be affected by their sexual orientation. Apple views this as a civil rights issue, rather than just a political issue, and is therefore speaking out publicly against Proposition 8.

 

Apple becomes the latest prominent Silicon Valley company to speak out against the measure. Google's founders gave $140,000 to the "No on 8" campaign -- $100,000 from Sergey Brin and $40,000 from Larry Page, the San Jose Mercury News reported today. The Internet company, based in Mountain View, Calif., had earlier taken the unusual step of publicly opposing the measure, which would ban same-sex marriage, saying it would have a "chilling and discriminatory effect" on many of its employees.

 

Some supporters of Prop. 8 have said they would protest businesses that actively oppose the measure unless they make similar donations to ProtectMarriage.com, which is trying to overturn the California Supreme Court decision that legalized same-sex marriages.

 

"Our campaign is a campaign of the people," Sonja Eddings Brown, deputy communications director on Yes on 8, said today following Apple's announcement. "We knew we would never be able to compete with the large corporations and Hollywood. We represent the families. We are standing up and pushing back with everything we have."

 

"I respect everyone's views," she said, "and if it's a corporate view, great."

 

-- Michelle Quinn

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I heard the Mormon church is giving a nice check to the vote yes on 8 camp, dont think it's quite that much, but yeah.

 

 

I see

damned commercial every day i turn on the TV. I also noticed that the yes on 8 campaign has been much more public in terms of getting signs and billboards everywhere :-\

 

Oh and the professor in

ad got suspended from teaching in Pepperdine apparently because the University doesn't agree with him. Edited October 27, 2008 by Atrus

I enjoy how much we have gotten away from separation of church and state. If you don't like it, don't participate in it, they are only delaying the inevitable anyway. Then again you can't be taken seriously as a presidential candidate unless you are a christian. /rolls eyes.