Pastor calls for boycott of pro-gay firms

[swimmernsecretsea]

Rachel La Corte, Associated Press
Monday, January 16, 2006 / 08:18 PM

OLYMPIA, Wash. -- A pastor on Monday called for a national boycott of Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard and other companies that support a gay civil rights bill, saying the corporations have underestimated the power of religious consumers.

The Rev. Ken Hutcherson, pastor of Antioch Bible Church in the Seattle suburb of Redmond, said he would formally issue the boycott Thursday on the conservative radio show Focus on the Family.

"We're tired of sitting around thinking that morals can be ignored in our country," he said. "This is not a threat, this is a promise. Check out the past presidential election. We made the moral issue the No. 1 issue."

...

Full story here: http://www.planetout.com/news/article.html?2006/01/16/2

[yurbud]

1. I misread your subject line--I thought you said fiLms

[yurbud]

2. Best of luck to him boycotting Microsoft. I'm sure Bill Gates will lose

sleep over it.

[jobycom]

3. Good. Maybe it will cut down on the right-wing email crap.

They'll have to boycott Microsoft and Apple. They can communicate with tin cans and stone tablets and get the hell off the Internet. No one will miss their emails. Except Snopes--they won't have anything left to debunk if these gullible wackos boycott Microsoft.

[TaleWgnDg]

4. . . . indeed

[xchrom]

5. lol -- riiiiight -- boycott microsoft and hewlett packard.

let us know how that goes, pastor.


pastor: i'm using that word really, really loosely here.

[ClintonTyree]

6. Good luck with that............

I'm sure Microsoft and Apple are shaking in their shoes........

[TechBear_Seattle]

7. May it be as successful as the Disney boycott

You know, the one the AMA and other theocratic groups called just as Disney started a period of record profits, and which was called off about the time those profits started slipping.

[GodlessBiker]

8. If he were serious, he would stop using his computer right now.

[Liberal Veteran]

9. ROTFLMAO!!!! What are they gonna do?

Tell little old ladies on fixed incomes to trade in their 200 dollar computer that they use to email their grandkids for a brand new iMac or perhaps they'll tell them to install Linux?