Even 800lb gorillas occasionally cave to threats ...

[unixronin]

...In this case, it appears Microsoft,  in response to threats from an Antioch Bible Church pastor of a national boycott of Microsoft products, withdrew its support for House Bill 1515, Washington State's anti-gay-discrimination bill.  Other corporate sponsors of HB1515 including Boeing, Nike, Coors, Qwest Communications, Washington Mutual, Hewlett-Packard, Corbis, Battelle Memorial Institute, and Paul Allen's company Vulcan Inc appear so far to be maintaining their support.

Comments

[dirtynumbangel.livejournal.com]

I don't give a flying fuck if people like me or not. It's people like you, who may mouth the right platitudes about being anti-discrimination, but who won't actually support anything that ends discrimination, that allow it to continue.

[ilcylic.livejournal.com]

Right, because forcing people with irrational hatreds to co-exist with the object of said hatreds works to eliminate those hatreds, instead of merely multiplying them.

Well, keep on keeping on with that, I suppose we'll see how well it works eventually.

-Ogre

[dirtynumbangel.livejournal.com]

Yep, obviously the legal changes in the USA in the 60's, ending legal discrimination against African-Americans have done nothing.