Google's Valentine's video featured a gay couple.
(Credit: Google Screenshot: Chris Matyszczyk/CNET)
When even corporations can see that a piece of social legislation makes sense, you'd think that the politicians who ultimately work for those corporations would listen. Especially in America.
And yet the path of gay marriage has not been smooth.
Yesterday, though, Google -- which has repeated expressed support for gay marriage, for example in this year's Valentine's video (embedded) -- decided to confront politicians publicly by launching a global campaign called "Legalize Love."
As Dot429 reports, Google announced its intention yesterday at a Global LGBT Workplace Summit in London.
Its first governmental targets are Singapore and Poland, two countries with slightly different approaches to life.
Google's Mark Palmer-Edgecumbe reportedly told the Summit: "Singapore wants to be a global financial center and world leader and we can push them on the fact that being a global center and a world leader means you have to treat all people the same, irrespective of their sexual orientation."
Having lived in both Singapore and Poland, I feel sure that Google's task in each country will not be easy but perhaps for different reasons.
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