THEY are quaking in their boots over at Microsoft headquarters – not with fear that they are about to be taken over by an army of fundamentalist Christian wingnuts – but with laughter.
The source of their mirth is a posturing tosspot called Reverend Ken Hutcherson, a former Dallas Cowboys player, and the self- proclaimed head of the Antioch Bible Church, based in Redmond, the home of Microsoft’s headquarters.
The burly buffoon, of whom it was once said “he not exactly a walking billboard for intelligent design”, was widely reported at the weekend saying that, with the backing of hordes of Christian fundies, he plans to take over the Corporation – one of the world’s biggest companies – and steer it away from its sinful, faggot-lovin’ policies.
Hutcherson, who is rabidly opposed to Microsoft’s strong diversity policy, trumpeted:
There are 256 Fortune 500 companies alone pouring millions upon millions of dollars into pushing the homosexual agenda. 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 fire-storm 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.
This is not the first time that Hutcherson, whose grand ambition is to become “the most feared man in America”, has threatened Microsoft. At the beginning of 2006 he declared he would spearhead a national boycott of the corporation.
The boycott, he said, would be announced to millions of religious-right foot soldiers via James Dobson’s national radio programme, and would be backed by the conservative groups Focus on the Family, the Family Research Council, and the Southern Baptist Convention.
The call for the boycott never materialised – and nor did the boycott itself.
The homo-hating Hutcherson, like so many of his fundie friends, is simply a blustering clown – and what do we do when we encounter clowns? We take the piss out of them. Mercilessly!
See full report here.
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November 19th, 2007 at 4:44 pm
Isn’t Steve Ballmer already the ‘most feared man in America’?
November 19th, 2007 at 7:32 pm
That should push Microsoft share prices up!
Did you deliberately select that photo of the burly buffoon because he looks s–o-o g-a-y in it?
November 19th, 2007 at 7:44 pm
Hutcherson may be a clown, but he an extremely dangerous one who is has close connections with an evangelical organisation called Watchmen on the Walls, which has its roots in Latvia. It is a virulently anti-gay group which has established a ferocious anti-gay movement in the Western US.
Watchmen leader Scott Lively co-authored a book saying gay people helped form the Nazi Party and orchestrate the Holocaust.
In Latvia, the Watchmen are popular among Christian fundamentalists and ethnic Russians, and are known for presiding over anti-gay rallies where gays and lesbians are pelted with bags of excrement. In the Western US, the Watchmen have a following among Russian-speaking evangelicals from the former Soviet Union. Members are increasingly active in several cities long known as gay-friendly enclaves, including Sacramento, Seattle and Portland, Ore.
You can learn more about the watchmen at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watchmen_on_the_Walls
November 19th, 2007 at 9:56 pm
Damn it, Arcanum, you rumbled me. And to Marcus, I would like to point that a link to Scott Lively’s The Pink Swastika: Homosexuals and the Nazi Party (Keizer, Oregon: Founders Publishing Company, 1995) exists on Stephen Green’s Christian Voice website (see yesterday’s post below). This, clearly, puts British homophobe and nutjob Green in the same league as the vicious Watchmen. See http://www.christianvoice.org......ss045.html
November 20th, 2007 at 5:22 am
Redmond is in Washington. It’s separate from Seattle.
November 20th, 2007 at 8:28 am
Good … religious people are just as good at running business. Or, is their some sort of bigotry and stereotyping going on here?
If there is, then it’s not be true freethinkers.
November 20th, 2007 at 10:20 am
Thanks for pointing that out, Tom. Report has been corrected.
November 20th, 2007 at 10:53 am
What exactly is this doomsday ‘gay agenda’ anyway? A knee-jerk term to get Pavlovian bursts of anger from Bible-thumping bigots at the thought that Christians are having their power to repress stripped away, perhaps?
November 22nd, 2007 at 10:21 pm
Funny the gay hatred from an ex-footballer. When you think that in every group of male team there is always rampant undeclared homosexuality. (see the S.A., Spartians, …). A guy happy with his sexuality (straight, bi, homo) has no problem with other sexuality. This guy spend probably all his carrer dreaming about the genital and or the arse of his buddies.
November 23rd, 2007 at 10:57 pm
Picking on fundies seems sort of unfair. Like picking a fist fight with an amputee.
November 24th, 2007 at 6:20 pm
How sad that any person has the desire to be “the most feared man in America”. It’s not that he wants people to fear him, it would be just as sad of he wanted to be the most (insert desired emotional response of other people here) man in America. This sounds like the emotional baggage of a person who has no confidence in his own self-opinion. He needs the opinions of other people for validation. Sadder still are the people who would be the “flock” of this emotional cripple. How low must their self-opinions be?
November 26th, 2007 at 12:01 am
This is truly hilarious, but at the same time completely depressing.
Its so sad that so many people give a shit about other people having sex.
I mean, I suppose a person would care if they thought that the ultimate being in the universe gave a shit, but please anyone stupid enough to think that there is more truth in old books and scrolls than in any contemporary fiction novel is probably devoid of the ability to use logic and reason anyways. Church leaders could start saying that invisible leprechauns formed the Illuminati that runs the world, and that gay people are bad because leprechauns are actually gay people on a magical device called “short-stilts” and the faithful would still believe it!
This sort of crap wont stop until people understand that faith is not something to be proud of, but more, ashamed of.
To be a person of faith just means you are arrogant about your ignorance.
A person with faith believes that they know all the complete and ultimate truths about the universe, but when asked how they know it to be true, they simply say “I don’t know” “there is no good reason to think this way, you just gotta have faith”