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Microsoft Abandons Gay Rights Bill

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the a-little-off-the-beaten-track dept.

andrewagill writes "Microsoft has withdrawn support from a bill that would "protect gays and lesbians from discrimination in employment, housing, banking, insurance, and other matters by adding sexual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."

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  1. Uh... by sjrstory · · Score: 5, Funny

    Anyone else read this as Microsoft Abandons Gay Bill?

  2. But by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Windows is still gay.

  3. They are beginning to see... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...Mac OS X as a threat (rightly, in my opinion), so they are now attacking the problem at the source.

  4. You take that back! by RatBastard · · Score: 5, Funny
    Windows is still gay.

    You take that back! You take that back right now! How DARE you insult homosexuals like that!

    --
    Boobies never hurt anyone. - Sherry Glaser.
  5. Wants to Weasle out of Contract by lilmouse · · Score: 5, Funny

    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

  6. Re:What does he have on you, Bill? by learn+fast · · Score: 5, Funny

    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!

  7. Re:What does he have on you, Bill? by mad.frog · · Score: 5, Funny
    At the aquarium where I work we have a gay domestic couple of penguins.

    Obligatory Daily Show quote: "Just because it happens in nature, does not make it natural, buster!"