I hate Christian homophobes even worse. Now it's *personal*.
You know, I now have a brand new reason to loathe the Christians who say Christianity is all about the homophobia.

I loathe Microsoft. I hate Bill Gates right down to the bottom of my geeky soul. I have fantasies - detailed, comprehensive fantasies - of how if I had Bill Gates at my mercy I'd, um... well, tie him to a comfy chair so he wouldn't actually be in any pain and tell him exactly what I think of Microsoft the evil monopoly, and their sucky products, and their customer "service", and Windows Millennium (we'd have to take at least half an hour for that just by itself: my dad got a computer with Windows Millennium installed and guess who had to deal with all the user-related problems that ensued?) and oh, Word. I hate Word as only a technical writer who had to become a Word maven could hate it. Also, I'd feed him cake*. I hate Microsoft.

And I hate Christian homophobes who put me in the position of having to defend Microsoft even more than I hate Microsoft.

Ken Hutcherson, pastor of Antioch Bible Church, says:

"I consider myself a warrior for Christ. Microsoft don't scare me. I got God with me.

"I told them that you need to work with me or we will put a firestorm on you like you have never seen in you life because I am your worst nightmare. I am a black man with a righteous cause with a whole host of powerful white people behind me."

Is he referring to Microsoft's monopoly in the software industry? Is he referring to Microsoft's stalling the Supreme Court decision telling them they had to split up - until Bush suckered the 2000 election and they could have their conservative pals just undo the original decision? Has he suffered Blue Screen of Death just once too often? Is he, in fact, at all concerned with Microsoft's huge profits, intolerable attitude towards competitors, and indifference to the scale of human suffering of xty thousand Microsoft users weeping into their keyboard?

No, none of these things. What Kenny baby cares about is that Microsoft has since 1989 had an official company policy against homophobic discrimination at work, and supports legislation intended to ensure that no company is allowed to discriminate against LGB employees.

Microsoft, he declares, will be just the first company targeted in an escalation of the culture wars between evangelicals and corporate America.

"There are 256 Fortune 500 companies alone pouring millions upon millions of dollars into pushing the homosexual agenda**."

And he plans to change Microsoft by getting homophobic people to buy shares. Seriously. There's even a video.

*Stale, sweet, tasteless cake. With bright red glace cherries.
**I don't have the latest copy, but no copy of "the homosexual agenda" I ever saw included Blue Screen of Death.