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Tim Cook: Apple Will Oppose Bills Like Indiana's 'Religious Freedom' Law
NBCNews ^ | March 28, 2015

Posted on 03/29/2015 9:23:01 PM PDT by Steelfish

Tim Cook: Apple Will Oppose Bills Like Indiana's 'Religious Freedom' Law

Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook on Sunday broadened his criticism of a new law in Indiana, which opponents say could be used to discriminate against gay people, to other states that he says have similar laws.

Indiana Gov. Mike Pence signed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act into law Thursday, sparking an outcry from those, including Cook, who say it could be used to protect businesses that refuse to serve gay people. The law's supporters say it will prevent the government from forcing business owners from providing services that go against their religious beliefs.

"These bills rationalize injustice by pretending to defend something many of us hold dear," Cook wrote in a Washington Post op-ed, referring not only to Indiana's law, which goes into effect in July, but also to those of "more than two dozen states."

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: California; US: Indiana; US: Kentucky
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To: Steelfish

Not really up to a business entity to decide the laws of common decency and putting public and mental health ahead of pandering to a group of disease-ridden perverts.


141 posted on 03/30/2015 11:39:32 AM PDT by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed.)
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To: a fool in paradise
Just a minor adjustment on your post.

"Apple isn’t a corporation, it’s a CULT!"

142 posted on 03/30/2015 11:48:29 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (When will Sisi, Bibi, King Abdullah & ?, take out Isis in our White House, AG Dept, CIA, & State?)
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To: Garfunkel Oates; SunkenCiv; Jim Thompson; humblegunner; darkwing104; 50mm; Old Sarge; ...

So long, Garfunkel Oates (Posting History)
Hat Tip to SunkenCiv, who FReepmailed me
Pro-Homosexual agenda troll thinks that Bible-believing Christians
Have no right to adhere to their religious beliefs and must bow to perversion
Free Republic and Jim Thompson shout a resounding NO!



You might want to take a look at our Mission Statement, you nitwit



FReepmail TheOldLady to get ON or OFF the ZOT LIGHTNING ping list.

143 posted on 03/30/2015 12:20:05 PM PDT by TheOldLady (Pray for Obama... Psalm 109:8 -- Look it up.... I donate monthly. Give it a try! It's great!)
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To: Steelfish
Mr. Cook, then you you better seriously consider shutting down Apple Stores in 19 states with similar laws. Talk about killing the stock value of the company in very short order.
144 posted on 03/30/2015 12:24:28 PM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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To: TheOldLady; Darksheare

: Garfunkel Oates no longer feeling his Oates....: )


145 posted on 03/30/2015 12:26:56 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: TheOldLady; Jim Robinson

The place is crawling with Libertinians. They’re on a killing spree against all the American founding principles of religion, law, foreign oppressors, and these are but a few.


146 posted on 03/30/2015 12:35:46 PM PDT by RitaOK ( VIVA CRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming)
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To: Steelfish

Religious freedom is a right. Homosexualism is not.


147 posted on 03/30/2015 12:37:44 PM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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To: combat_boots
Religious freedom is a right. Homosexualism is not.

Amen!
148 posted on 03/30/2015 12:49:40 PM PDT by TheOldLady (Pray for Obama... Psalm 109:8 -- Look it up.... I donate monthly. Give it a try! It's great!)
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To: stephenjohnbanker

*Snort* [giggles]


149 posted on 03/30/2015 12:52:48 PM PDT by TheOldLady (Pray for Obama... Psalm 109:8 -- Look it up.... I donate monthly. Give it a try! It's great!)
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To: TheOldLady

I hope that brer Garf finds peace with those Demons of Faggotry.

I’m told they can be a real pain in the arse.


150 posted on 03/30/2015 12:53:28 PM PDT by humblegunner (Cruz.)
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To: humblegunner

Especially when they gang up on him...

Maybe if he learned to run really fast?


151 posted on 03/30/2015 12:56:06 PM PDT by TheOldLady (Pray for Obama... Psalm 109:8 -- Look it up.... I donate monthly. Give it a try! It's great!)
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To: EternalVigilance

Apple has ever gotten money from me, and I darn sure won’t give it to them now. I can’t afford to buy what little I have, so why would I want to give it to someone who obviously doesn’t need it?


152 posted on 03/30/2015 1:04:35 PM PDT by Monkey Face (Being cremated is my last hope for a smoking hot body.)
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To: Monkey Face

I hate Apple.


153 posted on 03/30/2015 1:11:56 PM PDT by TheOldLady (Pray for Obama... Psalm 109:8 -- Look it up.... I donate monthly. Give it a try! It's great!)
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To: Steelfish; ~Kim4VRWC's~; 1234; Abundy; Action-America; acoulterfan; AFreeBird; Airwinger; Aliska; ..
More mixing of CEO Tim Cook's reprehensible personal agenda with Apple company policy PING!


Apple Tim Cook mixing his Gay belief's into Company policy Ping!

If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.

154 posted on 03/30/2015 1:23:17 PM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users contnue...)
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To: TheOldLady

Good. I do, too. Shame on Tim for going political, like Starbuck’s. I don’t wish either company bad luck, but I hope they enjoy the backlash from conservatives who refuse to buy their products.


155 posted on 03/30/2015 1:23:41 PM PDT by Monkey Face (Being cremated is my last hope for a smoking hot body.)
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To: stephenjohnbanker; Jim Robinson

And it was so simply sweet...from Jim Rob himself!


156 posted on 03/30/2015 1:24:24 PM PDT by Monkey Face (Being cremated is my last hope for a smoking hot body.)
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To: Monkey Face

Well, it’s a good thing I’m not “buying Tim Cook” himself then ... LOL ... because I wouldn’t! I’m not that way!

What I do buy, however are the best products for the money! My iPad is NOT HOMOSEXUAL, it does not make me homosexual, and I’m not going to VOTE HOMOSEXUAL because I have an Apple iPhone or iPad or other Apple products.

My conservative political stuff will all be by the ballot box, and by supporting my conservative legislators. One example of who I voted for here in Oklahoma was James Inhoffe, Jim Bridenstein and Tom Coburn and his replacement James Lankford. And if you don’t like our legislators ... too bad! ... :-) ...

And I give “money for nothing” (that is, NOT in exchange for products or services, but to “give it away”) ... listed on my previous posting ... Post #114! Give money to them if you want to support organizations! Give money to the kind of legislators I voted for if you want to support politicians! And then use your money to “exchange” for goods ... the best you can find for any product that meets your needs, as THAT is our “marketplace” in the Free Enterprise system.

I’ll keep voting at the ballot box against the homosexual agenda to be legislated on us.


157 posted on 03/30/2015 1:42:02 PM PDT by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

And does he know the federal one was pushed by Chuck U. Schumer and congressional Dems and signed into law by Bill Clinton?


158 posted on 03/30/2015 1:43:56 PM PDT by Fledermaus (The GOP is dead to me! McConnell and Boehner can drop dead!!)
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To: Monkey Face

Oh ... and I forgot Starbucks! I was just waiting for someone there to start that conversation with me! They never did though, but I was ready. I was going to tell them that I don’t come into Starbucks for their POLITICAL VIEWPOINT and to SHUT UP!! ... LOL ...

I was kinda sorry that they never gave me that chance ... :-) ...


159 posted on 03/30/2015 1:44:29 PM PDT by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: FreedomStar3028

It’s like the old segregation laws passed by Democrats. They FORBID white business owners to sell to blacks or forced them to sale to them seperately in the back of the store, etc.

Many white owners just wanted their green.


160 posted on 03/30/2015 1:45:52 PM PDT by Fledermaus (The GOP is dead to me! McConnell and Boehner can drop dead!!)
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