What with last night's Yes On 8 ads (one that mocks SF Mayor Gavin Newsom, which: mean!) premiering on ABC's right-winged, white-trash television extravaganza, Google, last Friday, made a public stand against the same-sex marriage ban, Proposition 8.

While the tech company does not "generally take a position on issues outside of [the technology] field," Google co-founder and hot Russian Jew, Sergey Brin, according to the Official Google Blog, had this to say:

[W]hile there are many objections to this proposition -- further government encroachment on personal lives, ambiguously written text -- it is the chilling and discriminatory effect of the proposition on many of our employees that brings Google to publicly oppose Proposition 8. While we respect the strongly-held beliefs that people have on both sides of this argument, we see this fundamentally as an issue of equality. We hope that California voters will vote no on Proposition 8 -- we should not eliminate anyone's fundamental rights, whatever their sexuality, to marry the person they love.

Among other companies, Google joins Levi Strauss in (hopefully) making California a wee bit less hateful.

Dreamy, ivory-skinned, dark-haired, and thick-armed Sergey Brin (né Сергей Михайлович Бри, which, when whispered, rolls right off the tongue) did not mention whether or not Google will do something in particular to oppose Proposition 8, save for taking a stand. But a simple blog post from Brin, it seems, has done wonders already. Sigh.