The Guardian has an article about Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer's eventful lecture in Budapest yesterday. Upset that Microsoft had received a government contract, a student stood up, yelled, "Hey you!" and demanded that Ballmer return the contract money. Then he threw eggs at him (they missed) and proceeded to politely file out of the room in his "Microsoft = Corruption" T-shirt. It was a very brief, oddly mild (if messy) attack. And - like all that criticism of Windows Live - it didn't seem to phase Ballmer at all.

In 1989 Microsoft became one of the first companies to specifically state that discrimination against gays will not be tolerated. Today many gays still enjoy a work environment where they are accepted as human beings and treated equally among their straight peers.

Microsoft has been a pioneer in workplace diversity. It was one of the first companies in the world to offer employee benefits to same-sex domestic partners and to include sexual orientation in its corporate nondiscrimination policy. Since 1989, Microsoft has supported and sponsored gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender issues at Microsoft. In 1993 an organized employee resource group-Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Employees at Microsoft (GLEAM)-was launched. GLEAM now has more than 700 members...Read More at Microsoft...

So that sounds pretty good, there is nothing wrong with tolerance and acceptance..... So this brings us to today's story, Mega-church Pastor and former Dallas Cowboy Ken Hutcherson, who claims his church is "a church for all people, of all cultures, races, backgrounds," is so furious with Microsoft for not discriminating against gays that he wants to bring them down, by flooding the company with evangelical shareholders who will change the system.

An advocate of a "biblical stance" against divorce and homosexuality, Mr Hutcherson, 55, is asking millions of evangelical activists, as well as Orthodox Jewish and other allies, to buy up Microsoft shares and demand a return to traditional values.

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," he told The Daily Telegraph.

"I consider myself a warrior for Christ. Microsoft don't scare me. I got God with me..Read More Telegraph.co.uk....

So there you have it, possibly the Internet's most mind blowing story today, I hope the Pastors flock have better ways to spend their money, but who am I to judge what rich people do with their disposable income. If this zany anti-gay pastor has it his way and gays working in the corporate world are forced back into the closets and/or out of jobs, will the world be a better place?

For additional thoughts on this issue I give you a small segment of "The West Wing." And a link to what Desmond Tutu thinks about the homophobic God.