Category: Technology Author : Duncan Riley Posted: October 1, 2008
Tags : Campaign for Children and Families, google, proposition 8
Randy Thomasson, President of the Christian group Campaign for Children and Families has called for a boycott of Google over Google’s support for gay marriage in California.
Google took the unusual step of entering the debate September 26, publicly stating its opposition of Proposition 8, a law that would make gay marriage illegal if passed in November. Google founder Sergey Brin argued that “it is the chilling and discriminatory effect of the proposition on many of our employees that brings Google to publicly oppose Proposition 8.”
In an interview with OneNewsNow, Thomasson says that Sergey Brin and Larry Page have “replaced all notions of God’s truth by worshiping money as god,” and calls on supporters of traditional marriage to take action with their pocketbooks. “There needs to be a response from people who will say, ‘I’m not going to put a dime of my money or time into businesses that are attacking the sacred institution of marriage.”
Amusing Valleywag points out that the website for Campaign for Children and Families includes links to Google News.
Oct 2, 2008
If these people were truly Christian, they would know that God is incapable of hate. Mr. Thomasson should 'Google' that and learn a bit more before making more signs.
Nov 5, 2008
Christians do no feel the way you have portrayed them – with hate signs, etc. That is NOT a true reflection of a Christian, and it's unfair to portray them as such.
Prop. 8 had nothing to do with intolerance or bigotry. The issue was in redefining the traditional word of “marriage” as we have known it through the centuries to mean….and along with that, the terminology of “husband and wife” in reference to “marriage.” Had the Prop. passed, it would no longer be husband and wife, but partner 1 and partner 2. People have the freedom to live out their lives as they choose, to be together, to love, and certainly should have the right to get benefits like any other couple – legally, monetarily, etc. etc. But wanting a “different ” lifestyle than the traditional norm should warrant a “different” terminology for that partnership. Just don't mix the two lifestyles so that the terminology confuses the relationship as if all relationships are the same – they are NOT. I'm not bigoted nor intolerant. I just want to be a wife and have a husband and not have to describe our relationship as partner 1 or 2.
Jan 16, 2009
How are the relationships different? Do you think gay couples love each other less than straight couples? You may not be bigoted or intolerant, but you are pre-judging and making wrong assumptions.
There are extremeists in any religion; some fly planes into buildings, some picket soldiers' funerals, but the majority are normal folk who don't give a second thought to the casual cruelty they promote to anyone different from them when they assume that their version of 'normal' is the only version that counts.