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Apple CEO Cook comes out: 'I'm proud to be gay'
CNN ^ | 10/30/2014 | CNN

Posted on 10/30/2014 5:10:01 AM PDT by Dallas59

Apple CEO Tim Cook came out Thursday, announcing that he is gay in a column in Bloomberg Businessweek.

"Let me be clear: I'm proud to be gay, and I consider being gay among the greatest gifts God has given me," he wrote.

Cook has not publicly discussed his sexual preferences before now, despite some rumors and speculation that he is gay.

A year ago he announced support for a federal law which would have protected workers from facing discrimination based on their sexual orientation.

"For too long, too many people have had to hide that part of their identity in the workplace," he wrote at the time.

(Excerpt) Read more at money.cnn.com ...


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To: JimRed

(Not you, Dallas59)

8^)


61 posted on 10/30/2014 5:56:04 AM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: Eddie01

It’s called Google. Unfortunately, they don’t appear any more moral than Apple or Microsoft.


62 posted on 10/30/2014 5:58:21 AM PDT by dangerdoc ((this space for rent))
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To: Dallas59
"For too long, too many people have had to hide that part of their identity in the workplace"

If I whip out my heterosexuality "in the workplace", I could be canned for harassment.

Unless you work in an establishment which has sex as part of its business, it should be under wraps, whatever you do in your spare time.

63 posted on 10/30/2014 5:58:43 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: tanknetter
Tim Cook has been out for years and years. When he was appointed Apple CEO, the news that he was the "first gay CEO" was all over. Here's a link from 2011 that discusses this in detail.
64 posted on 10/30/2014 5:58:47 AM PDT by Jim Noble (When strong, avoid them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.)
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To: william clark

I am not dismissing the compulsion itself as a choice. It is just like drug addiction. The addict believes that he does not have a choice. He has to use drugs. And when someone approaches the addict and tells him/her that it is possible to live without drugs but it requires giving up everything that is deemed important to them, they will reject it. The same applies to homosexuality. While the decision may seem impossible to them, it is still a decision.


65 posted on 10/30/2014 6:00:05 AM PDT by Hoodat (Article 4, Section 4)
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To: Terry L Smith
Why did that not come out in his disclosure statement, PRIOR to being named CEO?

It was well known in 2011.

66 posted on 10/30/2014 6:03:14 AM PDT by Jim Noble (When strong, avoid them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.)
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To: william clark
You just provided an example of why their activism has become as successful as it has.

So their media campaign wouldn't have worked on the people who don't share their proclivities if those proclivities weren't chosen?

I have to admit though, yours is one of the most elegant renditions of the schoolyard "you think you are, but you're not" I've seen to date.

67 posted on 10/30/2014 6:04:37 AM PDT by papertyger (Those who don't fight evil hate those who do)
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To: Hoodat

Thanks for the clarification. It’s an important distinction.

It’s just sad that the culture has devolved to where people can be convinced that their entire identity and value as human beings is based upon who they’re attracted to; and that to even want to change something that may be tormenting you is a wrong way to think.


68 posted on 10/30/2014 6:06:24 AM PDT by william clark (Ecclesiastes 10:2)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

What’s to be “proud” of?
Where you prefer to stick your joystick is something to be “proud” of?


69 posted on 10/30/2014 6:06:46 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Terry L Smith

“Why did that not come out in his disclosure statement, PRIOR to being named CEO?”

They knew. Maybe that is why he was named the CEO ...


70 posted on 10/30/2014 6:07:39 AM PDT by TexasGator
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To: william clark

The homos and their leftist supporters are “proud” of what they believe to be the best way to shake a fist in God’s face.


71 posted on 10/30/2014 6:08:37 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Dallas59

All the people that already knew of his penis loving proclivity should have been enough, the public announcement is just the homosexual agenda.


72 posted on 10/30/2014 6:13:31 AM PDT by RetSignman (Obama is the walking, talking middle finger in the face of America)
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To: yldstrk

iPutz?


73 posted on 10/30/2014 6:14:26 AM PDT by outofsalt ( If history teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
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To: Dallas59

From Steve Jobs to blow jobs....................sad.......................


74 posted on 10/30/2014 6:16:38 AM PDT by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: Dallas59
Well, I always Apple stuff was gay.

Anyway, I guess this is timed to help distract Obama voters for another day before the elections. Look forward to other distractions between now and Tue.

75 posted on 10/30/2014 6:19:30 AM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: Dallas59

How is boinking fellow males A God given gift?

God made woman for man. And to reproduce.


76 posted on 10/30/2014 6:23:01 AM PDT by dforest
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To: Dallas59

If you are proud to be a pervert that is your business we don’t need to hear about .Your choice and we don’t need to know .


77 posted on 10/30/2014 6:24:04 AM PDT by SECURE AMERICA (I am an American.. Not a Republican or a Democrat.)
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To: SECURE AMERICA

You are correct! Nobody cares what the queers do with their body parts...if they would just shut up about it.


78 posted on 10/30/2014 6:25:58 AM PDT by abclily
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To: Dallas59
When your on the job, don’t matter if your a straight or whatever....just do your job and leave everyone out of your sexual life for 8 hours.

And put an optical drive back in the MBPs.
Sorry. I don't get it. A portable computer and you have to lug around a separate optical drive to read DVDs.
Yeah, I know, the 'cloud', thumb drives, etc. but there's plenty of DVD programs out there.

79 posted on 10/30/2014 6:26:51 AM PDT by Vinnie
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To: Dallas59
"Let me be clear: I'm proud to be gay, and I consider being gay among the greatest gifts God has given me," he wrote.

We will only be happy if you embed videos of you having gay sex in every single Apple device shipped.

We really care about this so much, we need to see video.

80 posted on 10/30/2014 6:29:04 AM PDT by Lazamataz (First we beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them. We have no 'news media', only a Soviet Pravda.)
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