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Anti-gay pastor and Antioch Bible Church leader Rev. Ken Hutcherson is advancing his battle against corporate giant Microsoft’s supposed support of the “homosexual agenda” today, reports the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
“There are 256 Fortune 500 companies alone pouring millions upon millions of dollars into pushing the homosexual agenda,” Hutcherson explains to the Telegraph. In what he calls a “David vs. Goliath” battle and part of a larger culture war, the Reverend is instructing his followers to buy and donate shares of Microsoft stock to his church, located near its corporate headquarters in Redmond, Washington.
Microsoft, one of the first companies to offer benefits to same-sex partners of its employees, had been under heavy fire from Rev. Hutcherson over its 2005 support of a state bill that would have outlawed job discrimination based on sexual orientation, accusing the company of trying to foist its internal policy, in contradiction with his religious beliefs, on the state at large. Microsoft then took additional hits from its employees and the public when it appeared to withdraw support for House Bill 1515.
Hutcherson has in the past said that it’s his job as a pastor, not Microsoft’s, to influence public policy
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