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Nine CEOs Call on Gov. Pence to Revise Indiana Law
Wall St.J. | March 30, 2015

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 Angie’s 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 state’s 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 Angie’s 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


TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: homosexualagenda; indiana; mikepence; rfra
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To: NoncompliantOne

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.


41 posted on 03/30/2015 9:42:48 PM PDT by cowboyusa
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To: Steelfish

Americans need to standup to these ***holes and boycott their companies.


42 posted on 03/30/2015 9:43:18 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer ("I want to be America's first, historical, male first lady." - Slick Willie)
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To: concernedcitizen76
"Reset needed: Union of Sovereign Free States of America."

The South tried this once. Lincoln sent Sherman to burn them down for it.

You will join the New Order, citizen. You will join.
43 posted on 03/30/2015 9:43:59 PM PDT by DesScorp
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To: exit82

Bingo

This is about forcing others to bow to perversion.


44 posted on 03/30/2015 9:46:13 PM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Like cockroaches they are eating away at the very foundational planks of our once great nation.


45 posted on 03/30/2015 9:46:17 PM PDT by Steelfish
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To: NoncompliantOne
"The homosexuals want supremacy. They'll keep on after it until they are stopped."

The stereotype of gays is that they are effeminate, and that type does exist, but there also exists an "alpha male" version of homosexuality that is hard, hyper-masculine, intolerant, powerful, and angry. I once worked for such a man and he was one of the spookiest men I've ever met.

In occult circles, male homosexuality is seen as a generator of a kind of super power, a will to power that is almost irresistible and is insatiable. Some believe that the Nazi movement - despite its eventual persecution of effeminate gays - had its origins in a kind of naturalistic cult of hyper-maleness and homosexuality.

We may be seeing the re-emergence of something like that. Obama is making the military inhospitable to Christians and accepting of gays. We may be seeing the formation of a new SS or gestapo right before our eyes.
46 posted on 03/30/2015 9:46:17 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: Steelfish

Cummins?

To hl with all of them. Itis only Constitutional


47 posted on 03/30/2015 9:50:05 PM PDT by Sequoyah101
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Tons of homos drive trucks and buy diesel engines. Not


48 posted on 03/30/2015 9:51:58 PM PDT by Sequoyah101
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To: Steelfish
" . . . it is critical that we make it clear that Indiana is the welcoming state we all believe it to be."

But if you are a [traditional] Christian, you are not welcome. Governor Cuomo of New York pretty much admitted that a couple of years ago.
49 posted on 03/30/2015 9:52:06 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: Steelfish

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.


50 posted on 03/30/2015 9:52:44 PM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: Sequoyah101
"Tons of homos drive trucks and buy diesel engines. Not."

Sorry, but there IS a hyper-masculine, hard-bodied version of homosexuality, and in my view they are the ones lurking behind the scenes right now. We are being sold the stereotype of the effeminate, harmless gay, but how do you think the gay movement has made such huge strides in the last few years? Power, frightening power, resides in the gay movement.
51 posted on 03/30/2015 9:55:36 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: DesScorp
Actually, corporations (and their leaders with noted exceptions)are bureaucracies and, like governmental and religious bureaucracies, they are essentially amoral, not immoral. Bureaucracies are most interested in efficiently implementing their programs, plans, orders, and directives because that is how their effectiveness (corporate and personal) is evaluated. Anything that interferes with that implementation is to be eliminated or at least minimized.

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?

52 posted on 03/30/2015 9:56:23 PM PDT by Captain Rhino (Determined effort today forges tomorrow)
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To: Steelfish

Horace Mowen lives.


53 posted on 03/30/2015 10:01:53 PM PDT by Mr. Jeeves (Heteropatriarchal Capitalist)
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To: Steelfish

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.


54 posted on 03/30/2015 10:03:54 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: DesScorp

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.


55 posted on 03/30/2015 10:05:20 PM PDT by concernedcitizen76
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To: Steelfish

I’ve already cut off angie’s list.


56 posted on 03/30/2015 10:20:59 PM PDT by I still care (I miss my friends, bagels, and the NYC skyline - but not the taxes. I love the South.)
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To: Captain Rhino

That’s a very lucid and accurate summary of corporate thinking, in my view. I wish I could have said it that well myself.


57 posted on 03/30/2015 10:22:02 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: Steve_Seattle

“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.


58 posted on 03/30/2015 10:22:21 PM PDT by WTFOVR (I find myself exclaiming that expression quite often these days!)
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To: DesScorp

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
..


59 posted on 03/30/2015 10:23:56 PM PDT by Reddy (B.O. stinks)
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To: Captain Rhino

“...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.”


60 posted on 03/30/2015 10:30:53 PM PDT by WTFOVR (I find myself exclaiming that expression quite often these days!)
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