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Google co-Founder and President Sergey Brin drove the Internet giant into the world of state electoral politics when he wrote this post on a company blog stating Google's formal opposition to the Prop. 8 same-sex marriage ban initiative on the Nov. 4 ballot.

Here's Brin's entire post:

Google took the uncharacteristic step of chiming in on a social issue when they announced on their blog that they are against Proposition 8, which would eliminate the right of gay couples to marry:

As an Internet company, Google is an active participant in policy debates surrounding information access, technology and energy. Because our company has a great diversity of people and opinions -- Democrats and Republicans, conservatives and liberals, all religions and no religion, straight and gay -- we do not generally take a position on issues outside of our field, especially not social issues. So when Proposition 8 appeared on the California ballot, it was an unlikely question for Google to take an official company position on.

However, while 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.