Silicon Valley Leaders Say No to Proposition 8 With New Group and Ad

[Newsjock]

Source: Wall Street Journal

Today, a panoply of prominent tech and Internet leaders is taking a very public stand against a controversial initiative before California voters, which would eliminate the current legal right of same-sex couples to marry.

Forming a group and taking out a full-page ad in the San Jose Mercury News tomorrow, the execs hope to convince voters to reject Proposition 8, which is titled “Eliminates Right of Same-Sex Couples to Marry.”

... The honorary co-chairs of “Silicon Valley Leaders Say NO on Proposition 8″ include: Brin; Bill Campbell, Chairman, Intuit; David Filo, Founder, Yahoo; Chuck Geschke, Founder and Chairman, Adobe Systems; John Morgridge, Former CEO and Chairman, Cisco Systems; Pierre Omidyar, Founder and Chairman, eBay; Sheryl Sandberg, COO, Facebook; Eric Schmidt, CEO, Google; and Jerry Yang, Founder, Yahoo.

In a statement in a press release set to go out this morning, Yang said: “Silicon Valley has always been an example for the rest of the country of how diversity and openness help to drive innovation and value creation. This divisive measure is the antithesis of those values that make Silicon Valley so unique.”

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[Duncan Grant]

1. Thanks, Newsjock!

I cross-posted in LGBT and will forward to friends via email. :thumbsup:

[closeupready]

2. That's wonderful.

:hi:

[EFerrari]

3. It's always been an example -- after segregation. But, better late than never.

:kick:

[kimmylavin]

4. Plus...

Apple's got a statement up on their homepage urging No on 8.

[RevolutionStartsNow]

5. Wow, that just ROCKS. As someone who makes a living off Silicon Valley $$...

This makes me very happy.

I want 8 to lose almost as much as I want Obama to win.

[dbackjon]

6. Very cool. Prop 8 is the most important vote this election