Amazon founder donates $2.5 million to same-sex ‘marriage’ campaign
OLYMPIA, Washington , July 31, 2012 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) - The fight for traditional marriage in Washington state is heating up with the announcement that billionaire Jeff Bezos , the founder of Amazon .com, and his wife, MacKenzie, have pledged $2.5 million to homosexual lobbyists. The donation comes after opponents of the state’s new gay “marriage” law stopped the legislation in its tracks by collecting and filing over 240,000 signatures in support of a referendum on the November ballot. The contribution makes the Amazon couple the largest financial backer of homosexual “rights” in the state, according to the NY Times , far outstripping the $100k donation by Bill Gates and Steven A. Ballmer of Microsoft. Gov. Christine Gregoire of Washington State, a Democrat, signed the homosexual “marriage” bill into law in February, making Washington the seventh U.S. state to redefine marriage, in addition to the District of Columbia . The bill was expected to take effect in Jun