…Specifically, the left wing. And the centre.

The company that built its reputation delivering online services to Howard Dean’s insurgent campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, and that says it “does not work with groups that promote prejudice and hate even if they are in full compliance with the law”…

…is now helping the Alliance for Marriage (sic) enshrine anti-lesbian-and-gay discrimination in the U.S. constitution.

The news is rampaging through Convio’s potential clients in the liberal blogosphere (Daily Kos and Eschaton, for example)… yet there isn’t a word on Convio’s web site, or a comment from any Convio representatives on the blogs.

And Convio should care more than most. U.S. liberal bloggers and their readers include many of the tech-savvy activists and professionals who are in a position to point their organizations toward – or away from – companies like Convio. Their opinions are forming and hardening right now.

It’s a bad, bad time to be silent.

(The good news is, there’s a pretty good list of alternative online advocacy software/service providers taking shape in the Kos post’s comments area.)