StormyPeak
May 9th, 2005, 09:15 AM
Microsoft has been well known for it's support of gay rights within it's company...and for a time was actively supportive of a gay rights bill that is to be introduced to legislation.
A megachurch leader named Dr. Hutcherson (a black man) has accused gay rights activists of trying to hijack and sully the civil rights movement by their comparison of the right of gays and lesbians to marry to the civil rights struggle he lived through as a poor child in Alabama in the 1950's and 60's.
He also announced a short time back that he would organize a national boycott of Microsoft if they continued their support of this bill.
Microsoft's response was to suddenly say they were going to go neutral in their opinion...which had many of their gay employees, and gay organizations angry with them at the sudden withdrawn support that Microsoft had originally promised.
THEN...this is what's funny to me. The minister, Dr. Hutcherson, began to brag that Quote: Microsoft was no match for his church.
Microsoft's response to that, and to their gay employees....is that they will once again actively support the gay rights bill. :p
I'm not gay, but I'm an athiest who believes churches are getting way to powerful in their say about how this country is run. And I like the idea that the most richest company in America didn't cave in to that 'moral majority' as they like to be known.
I doubt the bill will pass because our congress is filled with a bunch of putzes...who don't have the balls to give every Citizen in this country equal treatment. Gay people pay taxes and have jobs and have the same problems as straights and I don't see what the big deal is if they want to marry. It's something that doesn't matter to me because it's not my business who others sleep with or live with.
I am glad to see Microsoft continue with it's policy of equal treatment -- not only inside it's own company structure, but also in the more political forum.
Stormy
A megachurch leader named Dr. Hutcherson (a black man) has accused gay rights activists of trying to hijack and sully the civil rights movement by their comparison of the right of gays and lesbians to marry to the civil rights struggle he lived through as a poor child in Alabama in the 1950's and 60's.
He also announced a short time back that he would organize a national boycott of Microsoft if they continued their support of this bill.
Microsoft's response was to suddenly say they were going to go neutral in their opinion...which had many of their gay employees, and gay organizations angry with them at the sudden withdrawn support that Microsoft had originally promised.
THEN...this is what's funny to me. The minister, Dr. Hutcherson, began to brag that Quote: Microsoft was no match for his church.
Microsoft's response to that, and to their gay employees....is that they will once again actively support the gay rights bill. :p
I'm not gay, but I'm an athiest who believes churches are getting way to powerful in their say about how this country is run. And I like the idea that the most richest company in America didn't cave in to that 'moral majority' as they like to be known.
I doubt the bill will pass because our congress is filled with a bunch of putzes...who don't have the balls to give every Citizen in this country equal treatment. Gay people pay taxes and have jobs and have the same problems as straights and I don't see what the big deal is if they want to marry. It's something that doesn't matter to me because it's not my business who others sleep with or live with.
I am glad to see Microsoft continue with it's policy of equal treatment -- not only inside it's own company structure, but also in the more political forum.
Stormy