Jeff Bezos' Gay Marriage Support Criticized As He Buys 'Washington Post'
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- On Top Magazine Staff
- | August 08, 2013
Conservatives have criticized Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos' support for gay marriage as he buys The Washington Post.
Last year, Bezos gave $2.5 million to the campaign to uphold a marriage equality law approved by Washington state lawmakers.
On Monday, news broke that Bezos had agreed to purchase The Washington Post for $250 million.
The National Organization for Marriage (NOM), the nation's most vociferous opponent of marriage equality, greeted the news with the headline, Get Ready for Washington Post to Get a Whole Lot More One-Sided About Marriage Debate.
“Those expecting an ideological shift at the Post … will likely be disappointed,” NOM wrote in the blog post.
FoxNews.com's Dan Gainor called the news “bad,” saying that it likely means that the Post “won't change [its] 'values.'”
And Bryan Fischer of the Christian conservative American Family Association (AFA) tweeted: “New owner of WaPo gave biggest donation IN HISTORY to cause of sodomy-based marriage.”
(Related: Bryan Fischer says God can arrange hell for Desmond Tutu.)