CUPERTINO - Apple, Inc. announced this morning the consumer electronics company has donated $100,000 to the No On Proposition 8 campaign.

"Apple was among the first California companies to offer equal rights and benefits to our employees’ same-sex partners," Apple, Inc. said in a statement released on the company's website. "We strongly believe that a person’s fundamental rights — including the right to marry — should not be affected by their sexual orientation."

Apple, Inc.'s announcement comes two days short of one month since search engine Google's endorsement of the No On Proposition 8 campaign, a California ballot initiative that would amend the state's consititution to define marriage as a union between "one man and one woman."

"It is the chilling and discriminatory effect of the proposition on many of our employees that brings Google to publicly oppose Proposition 8," Google's President of Technology Sergey Brin wrote on the company's official blog. "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."

Apple, Inc. is based out of Cupertino, California. The company specializes in its line of Macintosh consumer computers as well as the digital jukebox iPod. Apple's stock (AAPL) closed down this afternoon, falling 1.85 points to end at 96.38 points a share.