# Google Announces Worldwide Campaign To Legalize Same-Sex Marriage

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-announces-worldwide-campaign-to-legalize-same-sex-marriage/627562>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [July 8, 2012, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-announces-worldwide-campaign-to-legalize-same-sex-marriage/627562 "2012-07-08T00:15:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2012, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-announces-worldwide-campaign-to-legalize-same-sex-marriage/627562/41 "2012-07-14T14:28:18Z")

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> [@Rune](#):
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> Whatever, I don’t recall anyone voting for Google, whereas at least Poland has democracy.

Whatever, basic rights and equality trumps voting any old day.

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**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2012, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-announces-worldwide-campaign-to-legalize-same-sex-marriage/627562/42 "2012-07-14T15:12:26Z")

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> [@Bosstone](#):
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> And the fact that Google’s business pervades society on nearly every level is _not_ a point in its favor. It’s done some amazing things with that level of integration, but that kind of ties into my stance on this thread: I do not like it when companies are so enormous and pervasive that they wield such leverage over society.

_shrug_ Stop using their products and services, then. You don’t have a problem with Google promoting sexual orientation equality; you have a problem with _Google_.

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**Author:** ![UltraVires](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ecccb3/32.png) [@UltraVires](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UltraVires)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2012, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-announces-worldwide-campaign-to-legalize-same-sex-marriage/627562/43 "2012-07-16T23:14:37Z")

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> [@Bosstone](#):
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> I’m of the same mind here as with companies that take a stand against SSM: I really wish corporations would just stay away from political and social issues that have nothing to do with their business.
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> Google’s big enough now that they’ll probably have a notable influence, and that makes me uncomfortable. They could just as easily have been against SSM.

Count me in the agree camp with this. I remember when the St. Louis Cardinals came out against concealed carry laws in Missouri.

Well who gives a good goddamn what the St. Louis fucking Cardinals, a baseball team, cares about concealed carry? If they supported handing out machine guns to kids, or a mandatory death penalty for handgun possession, what in the fuck does a baseball team know, or have any business being involved in, a gun issue?

Google is the same way. They are a fucking search engine. Link me to the site that matches the terms I type in the little box. The corporation should not spend a dime of investor funds railing against abortion or advocating the ACA, or whatever in the hell they are trying to do. If it doesn’t relate to promoting Google as a company, they are pissing away shareholder money.

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