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My Boss just posted this in our official Blog and I wanted to share. I didn't include the links but if you got to the Blowfish Website or the Blowfish MySpace you can click on them yourself.
I don't care who you are, this is the right thing to do.
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As a company, Blowfish doesn’t take positions on political issues very often. Sometimes, this is because I (Christophe, the owner) doesn’t want to speak for all our employees. Sometimes, this is because we do not want to irritate potential customers gratuitously.
But now, simply, we have to ask: All of our customers who are California voters, please vote no on Proposition 8.
Since we were founded, Blowfish has been a company for everyone: straight, gay, bisexual; men, women, transgender of any variety; kinky, vanilla, or any possible combination. Our whole mission is to celebrate sexual and personal diversity, and to acknowledge that everyone can find something wonderful in all kinds of sexuality.
Stripping same-sex couples of the right to marry accomplishes no worth goal. It does not “preserve” opposite-sex marriage; no one’s marriage is threatened by another’s. It does not protect children, especially not the children being raised by same-sex couples, who deserve parents who are full citizens under the law. It strips same-sex couples of hard-won rights and turns the clock back towards more discrimination.
We ask that you join us, Google, Pacific Gas and Electric, Levi Strauss and many other California businesses in voting No on Proposition 8.
Thank you.
— Christophe Pettus, President, The Blowfish Corporation
I don't care who you are, this is the right thing to do.
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As a company, Blowfish doesn’t take positions on political issues very often. Sometimes, this is because I (Christophe, the owner) doesn’t want to speak for all our employees. Sometimes, this is because we do not want to irritate potential customers gratuitously.
But now, simply, we have to ask: All of our customers who are California voters, please vote no on Proposition 8.
Since we were founded, Blowfish has been a company for everyone: straight, gay, bisexual; men, women, transgender of any variety; kinky, vanilla, or any possible combination. Our whole mission is to celebrate sexual and personal diversity, and to acknowledge that everyone can find something wonderful in all kinds of sexuality.
Stripping same-sex couples of the right to marry accomplishes no worth goal. It does not “preserve” opposite-sex marriage; no one’s marriage is threatened by another’s. It does not protect children, especially not the children being raised by same-sex couples, who deserve parents who are full citizens under the law. It strips same-sex couples of hard-won rights and turns the clock back towards more discrimination.
We ask that you join us, Google, Pacific Gas and Electric, Levi Strauss and many other California businesses in voting No on Proposition 8.
Thank you.
— Christophe Pettus, President, The Blowfish Corporation
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Date: 2008-10-09 07:13 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2008-10-09 04:51 pm (UTC)From:And yet another reason I like the folks at Blowfish!
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Date: 2008-10-11 02:49 am (UTC)From:I swear though... everytime I get thinking about Prop 8 I get steamed. OMFG! Sometimes I wish violence -did- solve problems. >___> *smacks some sense into those people* Someday they'll realize how stupid, fearful and backward they sound.