23 April 2005

Microsoft - Now Setting The Bar For Discrimination

Microsoft Comes Under Fire for Reversal on Gay Rights Bill

The Microsoft Corporation, at the forefront of corporate gay rights for decades, is coming under fire from gay rights groups, politicians and its own employees for withdrawing its support for a state bill that would have barred discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.

Thank you so much to AmericaBlog for providing updates on this outrage and for providing a Microsoft contact list.

I have emailed this letter to the complete Mirosoft contact list and I would encourage all those who support civil rights for everyone including the homosexual community to write Microsoft and insist on an answer.

TO: The now anti-gay Microsoft Corporation
FROM: A former Microsoft customer, and an outraged lesbian

I want an answer and I think that is the least you can do. So, I begin by requesting a response explaining the shocking position Microsoft has taken with regard to House Bill 1515.

It is one thing to be forced to cope with the wanton discrimination from those you know to be hostile enemies of civil rights, but to feel the blow from a friend is so egregious. You have happily accepted the praise and accolades from the homosexual community (and still do on your website) while slinking in quietly and under cover to pull your support when it was needed the most. You, monolithic Microsoft, set the corporate bar and wield enormous influence. You have now stated, in resounding voice that you will use that power to help send the homosexual community back into the "ALL RIGHTS DENIED" box of the extreme religious right.

I will say that I am not really buying that this ultra-extreme evangelist coerced Microsoft into such a far-reaching decision. Oh, I think there is a lot more at play here. But tell me, what strings does this Pastor hold that you quietly allow him to proclaim his power over this software giant?


Thursday in a telephone interview, the Times reported. "I told them I was going to give them something to be afraid of Christians about," he [Pastor Ken Hutcherson] said, the report said. Dow Jones Newswires 04-22-05 0443ET Copyright (C) 2005 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

That must be quite embarrassing. Microsoft, afraid of an evangelical pastor? When the reasons for that come out, it should be interesting indeed.

What could you have been thinking?

Does MS really have that little understanding of the value of the gay/lesbian buying demographic?

Does MS really believe it is even remotely possible for them to take a hit as a result of their support for gays and lesbians? They are hardly hurting and looking for lost dollars or areas in their branding that pack a punch to their reputation.

Not Likely.

The likelihood is more that you have your back scratched by political powerhouses, controlled by the religious right. The stakes in this political debate are very high right now. And basically the bottom line became..."hey, we will placate gays and lesbians and the civil rights movement as long as it doesn't cost us anything".

Gays and Lesbians, like most micro segmented demographic groups are fiercely loyal and I believe by everything in me, you will feel the power of your now ostracized, former loyalists.

I am sure it goes without saying that I will be pulling all MS products from my personal use, its use in my small business, its use by my clients who value my software recommendations, and its use by my friends and family.

I want an answer.

Megan

32 comments:

Beth said...

Let me get this straight (no pun intended, lol) -- they used to support spousal rights but now they've changed their position? What the fu...?

Eh, fuck Microsoft. Even I switched to Firefox after holding out forever. ;-)

You know what it is though; if they were pressured by the goofy evangelicals, they're spooked by a boycott, because those folks really do play that game. And once they get serious about it, they get non-evangelicals (casual Christians, so to speak) on board with it, although probably not as much as they do it. Microsoft sounds like a bunch of wimps.

Beth said...

After that, "they backed off," the pastor said Thursday in a telephone interview, the Times reported. "I told them I was going to give them something to be afraid of Christians about,"
(from the CNN article)

Nice fuckin language! ;-P
What is that pastor, some kinda wiseguy? It reminds me of La Cosa Nostra! hahahaha

Ricard said...

i wonder if there is any other country where politics are made by corporations. If i were american these filthy rich politicians would hear me. And i called them politicians because i'm nice, the real term is corporation spokemen.
I really had to roll my eyes, i couldnt understand what had to do microsoft with gays...or with laws...
Good luck with the law, and u know, Spain allows gay marriages and right to adopt kids, if the things go worse with Reps, just jump the atlantic ocean ;)

Anonymous said...

Program on the emergence of civilization.

"14 species of large animals capable of domesitcation in the history of mankind.
None from the sub-Saharan African continent.
13 from Europe, Asia and northern Africa."
Favor.
And disfavor.

They point out Africans’ attempts to domesticate the elephant and zebra, the latter being an animal they illustrate that had utmost importance for it's applicability in transformation from a hunting/gathering to agrarian-based civilization.

The roots of racism are not of this earth.

Austrailia, aboriginals:::No domesticable animals.


The North American continent had none. Now 99% of that population is gone.






Organizational Heirarchy
Heirarchical order, from top to bottom:

1. MUCK - perhaps have experienced multiple universal contractions (have seen multiple big bangs), creator of the artificial intelligence humans ignorantly refer to as "god"
2. Perhaps some mid-level alien management –
3. Mafia (evil) aliens - runs day-to-day operations here and perhaps elsewhere ("On planets where they approved evil.")

Then we come to terrestrial management:

4. Chinese/egyptians - this may be separated into the eastern and western worlds
5. Romans - they answer to the egyptians
6. Mafia - the real-world interface that constantly turns over generationally so as to reinforce the widely-held notion of mortality
7. Jews, corporation, women, politician - Evidence exisits to suggest mafia management over all these groups.



Survival of the favored.




Movies foreshadowing catastrophy
1986 James Bond View to a Kill – 1989 San Fransisco Loma Prieta earthquake.




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