OLYMPIA, Wash. — A Redmond, Wash., pastor is calling for a national boycott of Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard and other companies that support a gay civil rights bill.

The Rev. Ken Hutcherson is pastor of Antioch Bible Church in the Seattle suburb of Redmond.

He said he will formally issue the boycott Thursday on the conservative radio show “Focus on the Family.”

Last week, several companies, including Microsoft, Boeing, Hewlett Packard and Nike signed a letter urging passage of the measure, which would add “sexual orientation” to a state law that already bans discrimination.

Microsoft is restoring its support for the proposal a year after the company was denounced for quietly dropping its endorsement.

Dear rest of the country: Keep in mind that Focus on the Family is an inflammatory organization of faux-pious windbags that put the DUH in Fun-duh-mentalist, and accurately represents the views of about 14 people. They have no concern about family whatsoever. They just hate fags, probably because they have homosexual tendencies themselves and are too stupid to deal with it in a rational manner.

Microsoft has bowed to pressure from idiots like this before, and their GLBT group managed to drum up enough outrage to get them to rethink their position to something a bit more human. Let’s hope they have the balls to stick to it this time.

p.e.: Keep an eye out for Ken Hutcherson on The Smoking Gun. You never know…