Posted on 03/27/2015 5:18:29 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
(Reuters) - Apple Inc's Tim Cook, one of the most prominent openly gay American CEOs, has joined fellow tech industry chiefs in decrying a controversial Indiana law that opponents say could allow companies to deny services to gay people.
Cook, who publicly declared his sexual orientation last year, joined other tech chief executives, including Salesforce.com Inc's Marc Benioff, in blasting the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which could let business and individuals turn away customers by citing "religious freedom."
Indiana Governor Mike Pence signed the controversial bill into law on Thursday.
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This must be getting to ol Rush Limbaugh by now. He’s gonna throw in the towel on all his free pimping of Apple
As the CEO of a major corporation he should realize that the market works. If you cannot get what you want from one company, then another company will be more than happy to provide it.
Agreed. Tim Cook is an idiot.
As another FReeper has already pointed out, you basically cannot tell from somebody’s appearance if they are gay or not. Gay people essentially have to volunteer some indication that they are gay.
Also, pro-gay activists who argue the Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause (EPC) to defend so-called gay “rights” don’t understand that the clause is essentially a litmus test for people who haven’t read the Constitution. This is because Section 1 of the 14th Amendment (14A) where the EPC is found also expressly prohibits the states from unreasonably abridging constitutionally enumerated rights like the 1st Amendment-protected right of religous expression.
14th Amendment, Section 1:All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws [emphases added].
So several low-information, pro-gay activist states have already unthinkingly violated the 14A, imo, by using constitutionally unprotected pro-gay state policies to trump constitutionally enumerated religious protections.
In fact, Indiana’s law helps to prevent that state from likewise violating 14A by bullying Christians with the gay agenda.
Idiots. Some 19 states already have virtually the same law and 12 more have similar laws.
I doubt Rush will give up his love for all his Apple stuff just because of this fag. The technology is good, it is the leadership that sux (literally).
This idiot graduated from Awburn....all I can say is Roll Tide Roll.....LOL
Behold the Apple coolness factor. Tim Cook and his boys figure this won’t hurt sales. It used to be normal for gays to be in the closet. Now they want to put normal people in the closet and in fear of offending the gay mafias in Silicon Valley and elsewhere. They got the new head of Firefox fired.
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Windows and Android are just as good. Apple can go pound sand or whatever!
I was about to switch my family over to macs too... Guess it’ll be windows again.
As luck would have it, I’m going tomorrow to purchase a couple of phones tomorrow. Samsung it is...
Of course it can also be said that Microsoft is a major gay marriage supporter and Google is an Obama regime affiliate having executives visit the WH an average of once per week since 2009.....
I don’t disagree. I don’t own anything Apple. As a matter of fact I’m still using an old flip phone ... LOL!
Whatever happened to the basic right of freedom of association???
I just never got into Apple, I don’t know why.
Pick your poison...the only FR “approved” OS is Linux, LOL
They could care less about anyone else’s Constitutional rights.
It’s all about them, selfish immoral b*******
This just like the hysteria over the Supreme Court ruling on Hobby Lobby. Once we hammer the fact that over half the states have similar laws, the hysteria will die down.
Well, I’m not quitting Apple products, because they’re too good. I buy my products for how good of a job they do for me, not because of the employees at the company, no matter what level they’re at.
In fact most of the time I have no idea what their political persuasions are ... when I buy gas, if I get a coffeemaker from a manufacturer, or the pharmacy I go to, the bakery, grocery store, the shopping mall ... and you name it ... I don’t know and I don’t care ... because I’m buying a product for myself, in order to meet my requirements, and no one else’s requirements!
And when I work at a company, I don’t expect to have an entire subgroup of the population complaining against me “in that job” because of my political and religious and sexual persuasions. I expect to be judged in my job environment strictly on the ability to do my job properly, and perhaps better than anyone else.
If I get involved in my own time ... which I do ... then we can all argue about it on my own time, but not on the basis of my job or my work or the goods that I am making or selling on the market!
I figure that I can get involved personally (with whatever my own personal political or religious or sexual preferences are) on my own time. My work remains separate.
OH ... BY THE WAY ... I’m typing this on an iPad ... :-) ...
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