Posted on 03/30/2015 8:26:07 PM PDT by Steelfish
Mar 30, 2015 Nine CEOs Call on Gov. Pence to Revise Indiana Law
Corporations are ratcheting up pressure on Indiana over its religious-objections law. Nine chief executives wrote a letter to Republican Gov. Mike Pence calling on the him to revise the law. The full text of the letter, which was written by CEOs from Angies List Inc., Anthem Inc., Cummins Inc., Dow AgroSciences, Eli Lilly & Co., Emmis Communications Corp., Indiana University Health, Roche Diagnostics Corp. and Salesforce Marketing Cloud, is below. Read more on the law here and an opinion piece by Mr. Pence.
March 30, 2015
Honorable Mike Pence
Governor of Indiana State House Room 206 Indianapolis, Indiana 46204-2797
Dear Governor Pence: Regardless of the original intention of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, we are deeply concerned about the impact it is having on our employees and on the reputation of our state. All of our companies seek to promote fair, diverse and inclusive workplaces. Our employees must not feel unwelcome in the place where they work and live.
As we seek to attract and retain great talent from Indiana and around the world, it is critical that we make it clear that Indiana is the welcoming state we all believe it to be. As leaders in the Indiana business community, we call on you to take immediate action to ensure that the Religious Freedom Restoration Act will not sanction or encourage discrimination against any residents or visitors to our state by anyone.
By immediately enacting new legislation that makes it clear that neither the Religious Freedom Restoration Act nor any other Indiana law can be used to justify discrimination based upon sexual orientation or gender identity, our states elected leaders can provide the reassurance to the people of our state, our nation and the world that is needed at this critical moment.
Sincerely,
William S. Oesterle Chief Executive Officer Angies List, Inc.
Joseph R. Swedish President and CEO Anthem , Inc.
Tom Linebarger Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Cummins Inc.
Tim Hassinger President and CEO Dow AgroSciences
John C. Lechleiter Chairman, President, and CEO Eli Lilly and Company
Jeffrey H. Smulyan Chairman, President and CEO Emmis Communications Corporation
Daniel F. Evans President and Chief Executive Officer Indiana University Health
Jack Phillips President and CEO Roche Diagnostics Corporation
Scott McCorkle CEO Salesforce Marketing Cloud
We are ready in a cold civil war and it will turn hot soon. Believers are not going to be compelled to sell cakes under penalty of fine or will they be Imprisoned. This will come to blows.
Americans need to standup to these ***holes and boycott their companies.
Bingo
This is about forcing others to bow to perversion.
Like cockroaches they are eating away at the very foundational planks of our once great nation.
Cummins?
To hl with all of them. Itis only Constitutional
Tons of homos drive trucks and buy diesel engines. Not
if they don’t like how Indiana runs their state... they don’t have to do business in the state.
i’m 100% certain the good folks of Indiana won’t lose a moments sleep over it.
Any morality a bureaucracy possesses is derived from the moral values of its leadership. If the leadership is moral, (Yes, I know: “By whose definition?”) then the bureaucracy will implement the moral policies, plans, orders, and directives it receives efficiently. However, if leadership is immoral (or even evil), the bureaucracy will just as efficiently implement immoral or evil policies, plans, orders and directives.
This, of course, is why, once upon a time, sound character - as evidenced by good moral values and behavior - was considered a key consideration in selecting and promoting leaders in all walks of life. Now, all you have to do is somehow gain control of an organization and begin weeding out the elements clinging to the old ways. It's "progress."
Keep in mind that, the day after Adolf Hitler became Reich Chancellor, the bureaucrats of the defunct Weimar Republic went to work efficiently implementing the policies, plans, orders, and directives needed to insinuate Nazi ideology into every corner of German life, including the church.
And, as we are seeing now, here, in America, you don't have to be a German to feel compelled to fall in line. You just have to need a job to support your family. With the exception of the gay CEOs heading up some corporations, all these CEOs have been harassed and badgered into their current pro-gay stances by whining activists (internal and external), along with their their fellow CEO, corporate lawyer, activist judge, educator, and politician co-travelers. This is not to say they haven't drunk the inclusiveness diversity Kool-Aid and now genuinely believe what they are saying and writing.
Why? It is more efficient to just accommodate them. After all, these issues are inconsequential to our business. Accommodation causes less disharmony in the organization. And that's good for business. And business feels what is good for it is good for politics and religion, as well.
The Indiana religious freedom act is unacceptable to these CEOs because it creates an exception for a small number of specialist businesses that interferes with the implementation of the gay agenda. That upsets their employees and customers which creates inefficient disharmony. Consequently, pressure must be applied to "correct" the governor's and legislature's improper thinking.
Kool-Aid, anyone?
Horace Mowen lives.
Time to let Hoosiers know the names clearly of these CEO’s who oppose the bill.
Name those very wealthy men, who earn their wealth by drawing government payments and favors, and point out they have joined hands with highly politicized factions of the left.
Take the OFFENSIVE against them.
The way I look at it, the USA is Humpty Dumpty in free fall. Nothing can stop the breakup into pieces. The binding forces are loosening every day. The sane will flee the insane.
I’ve already cut off angie’s list.
That’s a very lucid and accurate summary of corporate thinking, in my view. I wish I could have said it that well myself.
“Power, frightening power, resides in the gay movement.”
Power, frightening power, resides inside the barrel of my 30-06 and AK-47 ... Can hardly wait to give them a personal demonstration.
No, the point is that capitalism without morality is not good, but it is STILL better than any other economic system, because at least it still gives everyone a chance to succeed
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“...Consequently, pressure must be applied to “correct” the governor’s and legislature’s improper thinking.”
30-06, Superformace, 165 Grain SST Bullet:
2,960 Feet Per Second Muzzle Velocity, 3,209 Foot Pounds Muzzle Energy ... That’s rather convincing corrective pressure too - when properly “applied.”
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