Bill Gates turns his back on LGBT equality after religious supremacists threaten boycott

Microsoft reneged today on promised support of an LGBT rights bill in Washington state. Imaginary dana posted a link to an article in Stranger that charts the move away from the gay rights bill under consideration by the Washington legislature. DED space noted the turncoat Microsoft betrayal of the LGBT community as well.

Word has it that Mr. Gates' company gave in to pressures by the wingnuts (who else?) headed up by pastor Ken Hutcherson of Antioch Bible Church in Redmond, Washington. It appears that Hutcherson's February meeting with some higher-ups at Microsoft during which time he threatened a boycott of all Microsoft products by the religious supremacists who are trying to reshape our country into the Fourth Reich.

Imaginary dana reminds us that this fellow is one and the same guy who organized the fiasco otherwise known as Mayday for Marriage last October.

She also provided a nice link to a Seattle Post Intelligencer article that sheds light on the tidy little $20,000/month fee Microsoft has paid to your friend and mine, none other than Mr. Christian Coalition himself - Ralph Reed. To be technically correct, they are paying Reed's company, Century Strategies.

The article goes on to credit Americablog with originally breaking the story. Their story provides links to the invoices that are apparently verifiable. In fact, it looks like old Billie Gates retained Ralphie and the CenStats 'way back before the 2004 election.

It all gets curiouser and curioser, Alice.