Antigay Preacher Hutcherson’s Invisible Boycott
Daniel Gonzales commented on the lighter side of antigay preacher Ken Hutcherson — his choice of operating systems to boycott — here.
But there’s a dark side to Hutcherson’s national boycott of every company that supports Washington state’s new gay civil rights bill: The boycott does not really exist.
Eli Sanders of The Stranger has been researching Hutcherson’s assertion to the Associated Press that the Southern Baptist Convention leadership, Focus on the Family, and the Family Research Council support his proposed national boycott.
It turns out that the SBC doesn’t support the boycott.
Nor does the Family Research Council.
AP reporter Rachel La Corte stands by her report of Hutcherson’s boast, but despite the subsequent denials from the religious-right leadership, the AP has not yet issued a followup report that would clarify to the public that the boycott does not really exist.
Hutcherson is like an ant attacking a giant. Nobody will take his boycott seriously of course, so why is this news?
I think he peaked too soon. Last year he went around bragging about causing Microsoft to pull support for the gay rights bill, and that caused a backlash against Microsoft.
Some of these groups may be waiting to start the hysteria and fundraising after Washington’s supreme court mandates gay marriage (if they do). That should happen any time now.
James said:
I think he peaked too soon. Last year he went around bragging about causing Microsoft to pull support for the gay rights bill, and that caused a backlash against Microsoft.
I agree. He sounds like a “wannabe” and no one is listening. I can’t really see how a boycott against MS will ever work. Simply put, FOTF, et al, don’t care enough about any of these issues to spend the kind of time and money it would take to switch over to Linux. If they actually did, I might have to take them seriously. In the mean time, how are you going to boycott a company when their product is staring you in the face most of the day.
David