Blow right to the gut

[annathepiper]

To say that I am disappointed in the news that the Washington State Senate has rejected a gay civil rights protection bill is a vast understatement.

But what really makes me simultaneously furious and deeply saddened is the news that solarbird relays here: that Microsoft backed out of supporting this bill because of a fundamentalist preacher leaning hard on them. As many on my Friends list are also on hers, y'all will have probably already seen this. But for those of you who are not, there it is.

I didn't get protest emails sent in time, unfortunately. Because of working--at Microsoft. The staggering irony of this does not elude me. Now I am going to have to figure out what to say to convey my sense of deep and utter betrayal, and who needs to hear it.

And it looks like my next laptop computer is going to be an iBook.

Comments

[sarekofvulcan.livejournal.com]

Blogged. And I think I'm going to do a little rabble-rousing on the private MVP groups, too.

[annathepiper]

Thanks for chiming in--and yeah, I figure the best we can do at this point is to mobilize people to send word to the proper ears that this was a BAD decision.