AppleInsider Staff
Apple has reportedly joined a group of high-power companies, including Apple, Morgan Stanley, Facebook and Intel, among others, are planning on making a case to the U.S. Supreme Court in support of the nationwide legalization of same-sex marriage.
The group, which Bloomberg says is made of "dozens of companies," will reportedly tell the nation's highest court that same-sex marriage bans in 41 states harm workplace morale and negatively impact employee recruitment operations.
The Supreme Court is scheduled to begin deliberation on California's passage of Proposition 8, a 2008 initiative that banned gay marriage in the state. Apple previously donated $100,000 to fight Prop 8 in October of 2008.
Apple will be joined by about 60 companies in its Prop 8 brief, including Abercrombie & Fitch Co., EBay Inc., Marsh & McLennan Cos., NCR Corp., Nike Inc., Oracle Corp., Office Depot Inc., Panasonic Corp., Qualcomm Inc., Sun Life Financial Inc., Xerox Corp. and Zynga Inc.
The court is slated to being hearings for two separate cases regarding the matter on March 26 and 27.
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Good for Apple. Nice to see them support common sense and equality.
[quote name="AppleInsider" url="/t/156187/apple-joins-coalition-of-u-s-corporations-to-support-same-sex-marriage#post_2284393"]The group, which Bloomberg says is made of "dozens of companies," will reportedly tell the nation's highest court that same-sex marriage bans in 41 states harm workplace morale and negatively impact employee recruitment operations.[/quote] While I support their efforts, I'm having a hard time seeing how it can affect employee recruitment. If everyone in the state has to follow the same rules, how does it hurt recruitment? Granted, it MIGHT affect the ability to hire if gay people were to move en mass to states that allow gay marriage, but I haven't seen any evidence that that is really happening.
How sad. Now the homophobes will have to boycott Apple products. Can't drink Starbucks, wear Nike shoes, use MS Windows and on and on and on.
All I can say is "quit the hating".
It does affect international recruitment in instances where someone is unable to bring their partner to the states because of the lack of formal recognition of their relationship.
Let's get the government out of the way and let the corporations get on and run this country.