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Microsoft Abandons Gay Rights Bill
andrewagill writes "Microsoft has withdrawn support from a bill that would "protect gays and lesbians from discrimination in employment, housing, banking, insurance, and other matters by adding sexual orientation to a state law which already bars discrimination" of the other usual suspects. Odd, given their previous accolades from the GLBT community, and their prior public support for the bill."
Anyone else read this as Microsoft Abandons Gay Bill?
Windows is still gay.
...Mac OS X as a threat (rightly, in my opinion), so they are now attacking the problem at the source.
What bothers me is that one corporate entity seemingly has so much influence over the legislative process. Specifically, a law that is totally unrelated to their industry.
I understand the RIAA/MPAA and Copyright legislation, but Microsoft and Gay Rights? WTF?
Now, instead of "Write Your Congressman!" are we supposed to call MS Tech Support?
-Charles
Learning HOW to think is more important than learning WHAT to think.
Bill Bails on Gay Bill.
Of course. They're worried about competition from lesbian linux.
You take that back! You take that back right now! How DARE you insult homosexuals like that!
Boobies never hurt anyone. - Sherry Glaser.
So you are saying:
they are whores with no principles.
I agree.
100 posts in, and you still haven't given the obvious answer to this!
What does he have on Bill? Well, when the head of MS starts desperately following bizarre orders from Evangelicals, you realize he's gotta be looking for allies. My guess is, his contract is expiring soon, and he's looking for a loophole.
Now, we know Satan's contracts are even tighter than MS's, so Bill's trying to get some extra-judicial help. That's all.
--LWM
Thank god. I for one can't go anywhere without certainly gay people peering at me in the most odd way.
I've installed locks on all my doors and windows so those goddamned gays can't sneak in and get up to no good. One look at those pillows, your curtains and you know you've been hit by the gays.
I've tried to do my part in my community by trying to keep tabs on them. I've taken some surveillance at the local YMCA. I've swept the mall and tried on some red swimware. Yet gay people keep decidedly peering at me in the most peculiar way.
We must stop the gay conspiracy and the gay media conspiracy, with their forced-redecoration squads running amok, frightening children and installing remarkably tasteful yet a little too frilly curtain vestments on every doorway and awning in this whole country. They want to take away our rights, to have our own curtains. The gay media conspiracy keeps a lid on it, however.
I urge you to ban gay marriage/civil unions in your state or your curtains may be next!
Who would really want thousands of Evangelical Christians switching over to Linux anyways? I don't want to use a mail client called "Creationism."
As long as there is a straight guy in the room with them running the video camera......and they're both good looking...
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
I have a helluva lot of female friends who think so anyway. Girl-on-girl is hot to many guys, but a lot of girls (that I know at least) are just as turned on by guy-on-guy as guys are by girl-on-girl.
Most of the girls I know think that that's a waste of 2 perfectly good guys attention that could be focussed on them instead. Preferably at the same time ;)
Obligatory Daily Show quote: "Just because it happens in nature, does not make it natural, buster!"
HTH, HAND
Be careful turning to nature for guidance as to what is morally acceptable, lest you be cornered into defending nonstop drake-on-drake necrophilia. Better to just say "I'm cool with that" than to turn to avian examples.
Federal law assignes some 1,080 benefits to married couples.
If they're willing to put up with years and years of misery just for some so-called federal benefits, I say let 'em. They have just as much a right to be unhappy as the rest of us.
https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere
Most of the girls I know think that that's a waste of 2 perfectly good guys attention that could be focussed on them instead. Preferably at the same time ;)You're referring to the girls you see on a daily basis -- the ones in the dirty movies -- aren't you?
"The gay/lesbian market is a hell of a lot more computer literate than the zombies in the Religious Right" Proof? Of course not.
Unless this preacher is able to get his followers to switch to Macs or spend a few months learning to run GNU/Linux, then he has no real clout on this issue.
Gott mit SuSE. (Sorry, I couldn't help but recall some recent celebrations or resist the straight line - double groaner.)
And just look at what's happened to Canada! Total chaos! Two dollar coins, people speaking in French, and decriminalized marijuana! I hear there are even places where polar bears roam the streets at will- is THAT the kind of cesspool of degeneracy we want America to become? Tastefully decorated, perhaps, but at the cost of being overrun by polar bears and stoned French separatists?
At the aquarium where I work we have a gay domestic couple of penguins.
Which is the real reason Microsoft withdrew their support for gay rights.
I am Sartre of the Borg. Existence is futile.