Notwithstanding an effort by proponents of California’s Proposition 8 to intimidate businesses that have donated to the effort to defeat the effort to reverse the state Supreme Court’s gay marriage decision, Apple announced today that it was getting on the No-to-8 bandwagon:
Apple has joined Google in publicly opposing a California ballot initiative that would deny marriage rights to same-sex couples.
The company announced Friday that it would donate $100,000 to the No on Prop 8 campaign, which opposes a measure to ban gay marriage that California voters will consider a week from Tuesday. Google has also spoken out against the ballot measure.
“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,” the company said in a statement posted to the Hot News section of its Web site.
Good for them, maybe I should go buy another iPod this weekend.
good products/good people