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Congratulations to Microsoft for reversing course and supporting a gay rights bill in Washington State that would prohibit discrimination. I want to thank the dozens of my daily readers who wrote to Microsoft to express their outrage. Microsoft employees who bravely stood up to the corporate brass deserve special credit.
But most of all, Microsoft should be given credit for doing the right thing. The company is so damn rich, that Bill Gates could have told our community to get lost. And even with Bush's plan to dismantle Social Security, a gay Microsoft boycott likely wouldn't have affected Bill's ability to retire comfortably. Saying I'm sorry is never an easy thing to do, but Microsoft's Steve Ballmer did so:
"After looking at the question from all sides, I've concluded that diversity in the workplace is such an important issue for our business that it should be included in our legislative agenda."
Microsoft has now paved the way to make it easier for Magellan Health Services to reverse course and get rid of an ex-gay therapist that the company didn't want in the first place. It is time for Magellan to dump Dr. Warren Throckmorton, before the type of "therapy" he supports hurts more people. Magellan, it's up to you to do the right thing...
4 Comments:
Way to go Microsoft! I was about to switch to Apple. Now I get to keep my PC.
posted by Anonymous, at
5/09/2005 11:25 AM
It is time for Christians to pray for Microsoft and for there support of the homosexul agenda. Microsoft's decision doesn't compute.
Eh. Too late. I already went and financed a PowerBook. But that's quite alright, as Apple's music software and interface are 10 times nicer than Windows. Besides, who's to say Microsoft won't reverse itself again? --JKM
posted by Anonymous, at
5/10/2005 5:57 PM
