I didn’t get home until very late. Around 5:30 or so, we got word of protesters out front. The group was called “God hates Fags.” At first I figured it was a facetious name, but it turned out to be an extreme right-wing hatemongering group. (Yes, this is a church convention I’m working.) This particular church doesn’t take that group very seriously, fortunately. One of the other guys in IT put it bluntly: “If you read your Bible carefully, you know that’s incorrect. God loves [pause] fags. God loves everybody.”
I’ve gotta get out the door. The late shift followed by the early shift isn’t much fun. But I volunteered it; I have to have tonight off.
David Farquhar is a computer security professional, entrepreneur, and author. He has written professionally about computers since 1991, so he was writing about retro computers when they were still new. He has been working in IT professionally since 1994 and has specialized in vulnerability management since 2013. He holds Security+ and CISSP certifications. Today he blogs five times a week, mostly about retro computers and retro gaming covering the time period from 1975 to 2000.