Good stuff.

Good stuff.

My feelings are that heterosexual and homosexual couples should have equal
rights under the law (“civil union”), but that the word “marriage” is a word
and concept best left to be defined by faith-based institutions. This
resembles how it happens in, say, France, where the civil union takes place
at city hall, and the religious union takes place in a church, synagogue,
mosque, etc I think that the jumbling of the two causes the debate to
become far more cloudy (and acrimonious) than it actually is. It's a matter
of semantics, I know, but the silly sound bite culture we live in these
dates turn such small differences into big problems. I have a feeling that
if the rhetoric was stripped away, a lot more people would be on the same
(right) side of this issue than we think.

“As an Internet company, Google is an active participant in policy debates surrounding information access, technology and energy. Because our company has a great diversity of people and opinions — Democrats and Republicans, conservatives and liberals, all religions and no religion, straight and gay — we do not generally take a position on issues outside of our field, especially not social issues. So when Proposition 8 appeared on the California ballot, it was an unlikely question for Google to take an official company position on.

However, while there are many objections to this proposition — further government encroachment on personal lives, ambiguously written text — it is the chilling and discriminatory effect of the proposition on many of our employees that brings Google to publicly oppose Proposition 8. 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://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/our-posi...

Jarred, you should be very proud.

I need less Dr. Seuss … who thought that Republicans could retcon and destroy our childhoods?