Ok, we know something is up, what do YOU think happened?

NOTE TO OUR JOURNALIST FRIENDS, THERE'S A MUCH BIGGER STORY HERE.

We KNOW there's more to the Microsoft story than they're letting on. I doubt that one single anti-gay pastor in one single meeting got them to cave on fifteen years of pro-gay policies. They've had those threats before, I'm sure, and didn't cave. But this year they did. Sure, the preacher didn't help - so I most certainly do not buy MSFT's argument that the preacher was irrelevant - but it was more than just that one preacher meeting that got Microsoft to abandon gays, he was part of something larger that changed their mind. So what other shoe(s) dropped that we don't know about?

Did the preacher have friends? Did someone else contact MSFT behind the scenes and threaten them? A religious right leader? Someone in Washington? A friend, an enemy, warned them of what was coming from the religious right or from the Bush administration or from Congress? Or did somebody have something on Microsoft, someone who told them "ditch the gays or else"?

There's much more to this story - that, we know. It's now our job to find out what. I'm open to suggestions.