Christian telco in gay smear allegations

A CHRISTIAN TELCO in Oklahoma, has been drumming up business by smearing its rivals on moral affairs.

United American Technologies has been billing itself as "the only carrier that is taking an active stand against same sex marriages and hardcore child pornography." According to the Wonkette, here, its sales and marketing division has been even more explicit to customers who ring them up with questions.

One of Wonkette's readers asked the outfit if AT&T sponsors child pornography and was told no, but MCI did.

The sales person made the outrageous suggestion that MCI has "a paedophile Web site for men who love boys" based in Montréal. Verzon, said United American Technology, trains its employees to accept the gay and lesbian lifestyle.

Without a trace of irony, the salesman agrees with the caller that, "God hates AT&T, MCI, and Verizon".

You can here recordings of the conversations here and here.

Caller Eugine Mirman is clearly having a bit of fun with the very straight UAT marketing salesperson.

Apparently the company is doing quite well with more than 2000 people switching a month, which says some people obviously think it is important to have a right-wing phone company.

A cut of the proceeds helps fund conservative political campaigns, via a 527 called "Faith Family and Freedom" created by the Republican floor leader of the Oklahoma House of Representatives.

However, it will be interesting to see how long it all lasts, briefs for MCI and Verizon should be in a holding pattern as we speak. µ