Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos.
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Amazon is the latest tech company to come out in support of same-sex marriage. And judging from the size of founder and CEO Jeff Bezos' whopping $2.5 million donation to defend same-sex marriage in Washington State, there's no mistaking how the e-commerce magnate feels about the cause. This is the largest-ever publicly reported donation to a marriage campaign, according to the Associated Press.
Bezos announced Friday that he was making the donation with his wife MacKenzie to Washington United for Marriage, a group working to uphold the state's same-sex marriage law. Amazon spokesman Drew Herdener told the Associated Press that, "Jeff and MacKenzie feel strongly about the issue."
Same-sex marriage is technically already legal in Washington State because of a law signed by Gov. Chris Gregoire in February. However, after gay-marriage opponents gathered 240,000 signatures to overturn the law, it was put on hold for a referendum vote in November.
Bezos became involved in the campaign after a former Amazon employee who is now working as a volunteer fundraiser asked him to help out. He responded to her by e-mail saying, "Jen, this is right for so many reasons. We're in for $2.5 million. Jeff ... [Read more]
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