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Google Announces Campaign to Legalize Gay Marriage

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 Azera   Singapore. July 08 2012 18:29. Posts 3367
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Edit: Foreshadowing on BBC? This is hilarious ^_^

Edit: I find it weird that I haven't seen any articles from BBC or CNN

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Google has announced a global campaign in support of equal marriage rights for gay and lesbian couples.
The Internet giant announced its Legalize Love campaign at the Global LGBT Workplace Summit 2012, which took place in London.
The campaign launches Saturday, July 7 in Poland and Singapore. Organizers plan to expand the campaign to every country where Google has an office, focusing on countries where anti-gay sentiment runs high.
“We want our employees who are gay or lesbian or transgender to have the same experience outside the office as they do in the office,” Google's Mark Palmer-Edgecumbe is quoted by dot429.com as saying at the summit. “It is obviously a very ambitious piece of work.”
“Singapore wants to be a global financial center and world leader and we can push them on the fact that being a global center and a world leader means you have to treat all people the same, irrespective of their sexual orientation,” Palmer-Edgecumbe said of the decision to include Singapore in the campaign's initial phase.
Bob Amnnibale, an openly gay executive at Citi, applauded the effort: “The fact that Google is so virtual and its appeal is very wide and young demographically means it can help spread messaging very, very quickly.”

- On Top Magazine




As a Singaporean I think I'm going to enjoy this. It would be hilarious to watch how my government responds to this, given how religious harmony is of utmost importance here. If the government loses the backing of religions, it's going to be a fiasco for them.

Personally, I think this is a good step forward for humanity if everything works out well.
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 Magrath   Canada. July 08 2012 18:35. Posts 285
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Good to see Google is still thinking outside the box on how to spread their name. This will give them immense exposure and tons of support and use from the LGBT community.
Anything can be acheived through persistence and thought
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 TirramirooO   Portugal. July 08 2012 18:36. Posts 100
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Sick of talking about gay people.. Im not Christian, i dont believe in religion but that is totally the ANTICHRIST... With the same sex you cant make children soo is against nature but make people understant that is becoming hard.

Keep going, in the future you all gonna open your EYES.

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 Azera   Singapore. July 08 2012 18:37. Posts 3367
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On July 08 2012 18:36 TirramirooO wrote:
Sick of talking about gay people.. Im not Christian, i dont believe in religion but that is totally the ANTICHRIST... With the same sex you cant make children soo is against nature but make people understant that is becoming hard.

Keep going, in the future you all gonna open your EYES.




If you're not Christian, then you don't believe in the Anti-Christ and such, so what are you going on about?
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 Magrath   Canada. July 08 2012 18:39. Posts 285
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On July 08 2012 18:36 TirramirooO wrote:
Sick of talking about gay people.. Im not Christian, i dont believe in religion but that is totally the ANTICHRIST... With the same sex you cant make children soo is against nature but make people understant that is becoming hard.

Keep going, in the future you all gonna open your EYES.



It's good if the couples adopt babies. There are tons of foster kids and orphans out there who need a loving family to support them.
Anything can be acheived through persistence and thought
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 solidbebe   Netherlands. July 08 2012 18:39. Posts 3232
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On July 08 2012 18:36 TirramirooO wrote:
Sick of talking about gay people.. Im not Christian, i dont believe in religion but that is totally the ANTICHRIST... With the same sex you cant make children soo is against nature but make people understant that is becoming hard.

Keep going, in the future you all gonna open your EYES.




Rofl what

Anyways I think this is a very good effort by Google, shaking up these 'norms' of religion ( and tradition).
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 Tripal   Finland. July 08 2012 18:41. Posts 91
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Why would they want to get wed in a christian manner if christianity as a religion is totally against gay people. It would mean that christians would have to somehow change the religion for it to be possible for gay people to get married there. This should be more like a campaign for allowing gay people to register their "marriage" in like a state office or something, because they can't for christianity to change their views, that are based on "a holy book" just because some gay people want to get married in a church.

ps. not a christian, but this is just stupid.
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 hypercube   Hungary. July 08 2012 18:42. Posts 1924
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It's a little sad that the most effective way to fight for human right is through multinational corporations. I don't like what that says about the state of democracy in the World.
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 Adreme   United States. July 08 2012 18:42. Posts 3949
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This seems like a good idea by Google to get some good press and exposure and since they will be in places where its a divisive issue there are sure to be counter protesters which gurentees press coverage.
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 Thorakh   Netherlands. July 08 2012 18:43. Posts 1623
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On July 08 2012 18:41 Tripal wrote:
Why would they want to get wed in a christian manner if christianity as a religion is totally against gay people. It would mean that christians would have to somehow change the religion for it to be possible for gay people to get married there. This should be more like a campaign for allowing gay people to register their "marriage" in like a state office or something, because they can't for christianity to change their views, that are based on "a holy book" just because some gay people want to get married in a church.

ps. not a christian, but this is just stupid.
It's not about Christian marriage, it's about marriage. Christian's don't have a monopoly on the word 'marriage'. There is state marriage, Christian marriage, muslim marriage, etc.
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 Azera   Singapore. July 08 2012 18:44. Posts 3367
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On July 08 2012 18:41 Tripal wrote:
Why would they want to get wed in a christian manner if christianity as a religion is totally against gay people. It would mean that christians would have to somehow change the religion for it to be possible for gay people to get married there. This should be more like a campaign for allowing gay people to register their "marriage" in like a state office or something, because they can't for christianity to change their views, that are based on "a holy book" just because some gay people want to get married in a church.

ps. not a christian, but this is just stupid.


No, it's not what you think it is. It isn't some words in an aged piece of text that prevents the gays from getting married, it's law. The same law that bans murder, rape, molestation, robbery, and such.
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 phodacbiet   United States. July 08 2012 18:44. Posts 933
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On July 08 2012 18:36 TirramirooO wrote:
Sick of talking about gay people.. Im not Christian, i dont believe in religion but that is totally the ANTICHRIST... With the same sex you cant make children soo is against nature but make people understant that is becoming hard.

Keep going, in the future you all gonna open your EYES.




This is a common misconception about what would happen if gay marriage were to be legalized. There are MILLIONS of babies that are available for adoption and the gay community doesnt even make up 50% of our population so we would barely even see a dent in our population increase. Even if gay marriage legalization does cause the population to go down, then it is a good thing (look at china/india and other countries with overpopulation problem). Also, if you dont believe in religion, then why does it matter if this is anti christ..?
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 Tachion   July 08 2012 18:47. Posts 6973
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Great move by google, but also a little confusing. It seems like such a random thing for a company like them to get involved in.
i was driving down the road this november eve and spotted a hitchiker walking down the street. i pulled over and saw that it was only a tree. i uprooted it and put it in my trunk. do trees like marshmallow peeps? cause that's all i have and will have.
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 Flummie   Netherlands. July 08 2012 18:48. Posts 363
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On July 08 2012 18:41 Tripal wrote:
Why would they want to get wed in a christian manner if christianity as a religion is totally against gay people. It would mean that christians would have to somehow change the religion for it to be possible for gay people to get married there. This should be more like a campaign for allowing gay people to register their "marriage" in like a state office or something, because they can't for christianity to change their views, that are based on "a holy book" just because some gay people want to get married in a church.

ps. not a christian, but this is just stupid.



Buddhists also marry fyi and muslims too. It is not a christian term (or limited to christians rather) by all means.
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 Azera   Singapore. July 08 2012 18:48. Posts 3367
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On July 08 2012 18:47 Tachion wrote:
Great move by google, but also a little confusing. It seems like such a random thing for a company like them to get involved in.


I don't think it is. They could genuinely be trying to help society improve with all that cash.
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  Noam   Israel. July 08 2012 18:49. Posts 1586Profile # 
In most countries Marriage is an institution that allows two people to get certain benefits from the state. Mostly tax and housing benefits. Any country that doesn't allow two people to get these benefits because they are of the same gender is committing gender discrimination against its citizens.

Marriage should not be tied to religion in any country in the world and this should be the ONLY focus of this campaign.

If some people want to celebrate the first day of their marriage in a religious environment, it should be their right based on religious freedom laws.
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 Sickkiee   Japan. July 08 2012 18:50. Posts 510
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Interesting.

I wonder if there is such a thing as a gay animal (seriously) - or are we the only form of animal that has this train of thought?

Other than that, I think it's a brilliant way to get exposure. Then again, knowing Google they have ulterior motives.
Lifes too short to be small.
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 Ramong   Denmark. July 08 2012 18:51. Posts 942
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On July 08 2012 18:36 TirramirooO wrote:
Sick of talking about gay people.. Im not Christian, i dont believe in religion but that is totally the ANTICHRIST... With the same sex you cant make children soo is against nature but make people understant that is becoming hard.

Keep going, in the future you all gonna open your EYES.



I seriously doubt that if gays can't get married they would stop being gay and get children.
"Yeah buddy"
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 Azera   Singapore. July 08 2012 18:52. Posts 3367
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On July 08 2012 18:50 Sickkiee wrote:
Interesting.

I wonder if there is such a thing as a gay animal (seriously) - or are we the only form of animal that has this train of thought?

Other than that, I think it's a brilliant way to get exposure. Then again, knowing Google they have ulterior motives.


You might not trust Wikipedia, but here you go anyway

Homosexuality amongst Animals.
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 Salivanth   Australia. July 08 2012 18:53. Posts 821
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Wow. Very good of Google to do this!
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