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sigma7 ([personal profile] sigma7) wrote2005-04-21 05:16 pm

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In a move that angered many of the company's gay employees, the Microsoft Corporation, publicly perceived as the vanguard institution of the new economy, has taken a major political stand in favor of age-old discrimination.

The Stranger has learned that last month the $37-billion Redmond-based software behemoth quietly withdrew its support for House bill 1515, the anti-gay-discrimination bill currently under consideration by the Washington State legislature, after being pressured by the Evangelical Christian pastor of a suburban megachurch.
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[identity profile] norabombay.livejournal.com 2005-04-22 02:34 am (UTC)(link)
Bad. Bad Microsoft.

You may be evil, but you are a force for good evil. The kind of evil that provides quality domestic partnership benefits.