Jeff Bezos, the billionaire founder of Amazon.com, and his wife, MacKenzie, have agreed to donate $2.5 million to help pass a same-sex marriage referendum in Washington State, instantly becoming among the largest financial backers of gay marriage rights in the country…. Mr. Bezos was approached via e-mail on Sunday by Jennifer Cast, one of Amazon’s earliest employees and a lesbian mother of four children who is now a fund-raising chairwoman of the pro-referendum effort. In her e-mail, sent Sunday evening, Ms. Cast, 50, implored Mr. Bezos to understand the importance of the issue to her and her longtime partner… In the e-mail, Ms. Cast described in detail the pain she endured as a young adult and the difficulties she faced publicly acknowledging her sexuality. At the end, she pointedly asked him to donate between $100,000 and $200,000 to the referendum cause. “Jeff, I suspect you support marriage equality,” she wrote. “I beg you not to sit on the sidelines and hope the vote goes our way. Help us make it so.”
She hit “send” and waited. Two days later, on Tuesday, she received a reply while in a car with her family. Recalling that moment, she said she had to read it out loud twice to make sure she had read it right.
“Jen,” the e-mail said, “this is right for so many reasons. We’re in for $2.5 million. Jeff & MacKenzie.”
First things first: a HUGE thank you to Jeff and MacKenzie—WOW—and a huge thank you to Jennifer Cast for making the ask.
Second things second: the haters are already boycotting Oreos, JCPenneys, Starbucks, Home Depot, Google, Microscoft, Ford, Pepsi, Target, General Mills, and I can’t remember who else. And now they gotta boycott Amazon too. Might as well get it over with, haters, and get your bigoted off the grid and just start livin’ off the land already.
More hetero bashing from a douchebag hater.
I’m hetero and I don’t feel bashed by this.
I think maybe you’re just being overly sensitive. Cheer up, bro!
I’m hetero. And, again, I’m religious. No one is attacking me, SJR. The voices are only in your head.
@SJR, What’s wrong with hating douchebags?
Also, you should probably remind us if you have any opinion regarding gay marriage.
Ah the three amigos of the apocalypse. Let’s see. We have ROM. Random Oral Masochist. Get down girl, go ahead, get down. Then we have D&W always begging for attention. And Cum Minty Colon. Is that where you stick your dick in a bottle of scope before you pack fudge?
You people are on the losing side of this issue. Gu7aranteed. People are now starting to wake up and see the truth for what it really is. This extremist activism to redefine marriage is just stupid and those who support it will never win over everyone. All these little activist victories don’t amount to shit and trust me when I say this. Those pop tarts that donated so much cash to this? They’re wasting their money. People in Washington got fucked over after Gregoire went over their heads and passed bullshit legislation that the majority didn’t want. Whether or not you tools want to admit it, the majority will always win and morals do have the most important place in a civilized society.
“You people?” That’s racist.