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While I in no way endorse, support, or defend Microsoft or its 
products, please note, to be fair, reading further down the article, 
the Gates Foundation seemingly has a different priority in providing 
funding for the Discovery Institute than Intelligent Design propaganda.

(quoted from NYTimes 21 Aug 2005)
A closer look [at the Discovery Institute] shows a multidimensional 
organization, financed by missionary and mainstream groups - the Bill 
and Melinda Gates Foundation provides $1 million a year, including 
$50,000 of Mr. Chapman's $141,000 annual salary - and asserting itself 
on questions on issues as varied as local transportation and foreign 
affairs.
...
The group is also fending off attacks from the left, as critics liken 
it to Holocaust deniers or the Taliban. Concerned about the criticism, 
Discovery's Cascadia project, which focuses on regional transportation 
and is the recipient of the large grant from the Gates Foundation, 
created its own Web site to ensure an individual identity.


(And, personally, I concede, Reverend Lee, no matter what your reason 
for being in bed with the devil, you're in bed with the devil.)



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JasonJayStevens
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