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June 2015 – Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, Visa, General Electric, Colgate-Palmolive, General Mills, eBay, and Coca-Cola are among 379 companies that filed a friend-of-the-court brief asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the ban on gay marriage in Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee. The companies argue that state laws prohibiting same sex marriage hamper employee recruitment.

A list of the 379 companies that signed the brief favoring same sex marriage is posted at morganlewis.com. Enter “Supreme Court same sex marriage case” in the website’s search engine and select the hyperlink in the press release.

christianpost.com, 3/6/15