Posted on 03/30/2015 8:07:42 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
There's something very dangerous happening in states across the country.
A wave of legislation, introduced in more than two dozen states, would allow people to discriminate against their neighbors. Some, such as the bill enacted in Indiana last week that drew a national outcry and one passed in Arkansas, say individuals can cite their personal religious beliefs to refuse service to a customer or resist a state nondiscrimination law.
Others are more transparent in their effort to discriminate. Legislation being considered in Texas would strip the salaries and pensions of clerks who issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples — even if the Supreme Court strikes down Texas' marriage ban later this year. In total, there are nearly 100 bills designed to enshrine discrimination in state law.
These bills rationalize injustice by pretending to defend something many of us hold dear. They go against the very principles our nation was founded on, and they have the potential to undo decades of progress toward greater equality.
America's business community recognized a long time ago that discrimination, in all its forms, is bad for business. At Apple, we are in business to empower and enrich our customers' lives. We strive to do business in a way that is just and fair.
That's why, on behalf of Apple, I'm standing up to oppose this new wave of legislation — wherever it emerges. I'm writing in the hopes that many more will join this movement. From North Carolina to Nevada, these bills under consideration truly will hurt jobs, growth and the economic vibrancy of parts of the country where a 21st-century economy was once welcomed with open arms.
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Well, the battle this law opens up is one that will either way destroy religious freedom. It blurs the line between church and state which means that if the church can invade the domain of the state, the state can invade the domain of the church. The right issue to engage on is on privacy which is evaporating so alarmingly quickly that its a fight the public is champing at the bit for which makes it eminently winnable.
Remember the old saying “put the fear of God in them”?
Don’t hear that said much nowadays, which is exactly the problem.
I am nearly 62 Years Old and I have never seen a time in this Country that such Self Centeredness has taken hold of the Population.
Sorry to say, but People think Government is the Higher Power, not our Creator.
CFA is surprisingly good. Personally I think KFC does the spices better, but attitude counts for something in an eating experience.
This just in...
The Pope just added Star Taveller is a troll to the Bible.
The House and Senate jost voted 435-0 that Star Taveller is a troll is now a Federal Law.
Star Taveller is a troll just jumped the Down Jones and S&P over 500 points.
Star Taveller is a troll just ended hunger in Africa, cured the AIDS epedemic and caused ISIS to just kill themselves and go away forever.
Oh ... and in regards to Starbucks ... here is what I wrote earlier ... just to cover all bases ... :-) ...
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And as far as Starbucks ... I happen to be there RIGHT NOW! I’m here because I like their super-fast WiFi, the fastest around that I’ve seen, almost beating my own. No one else has it as fast as what I’ve seen here. You see, I go here FOR MY OWN REASONS.
NOW, if someone at the counter ever decided to tell me about some political position of theirs or the company, I would tell them, “I don’t care, I don’t want to talk about it, and I didn’t come here for your political opinion!”. Fortunately ... no one there ever did that for me! ... LOL ...
I go to places for MY OWN REASONS, and if I’m going to be politically involved, I’ll do so at the ballot box and I’ll join some PAC and be active in it.
If I’m going to support some organization ... then I’ll give them MONEY FOR NOTHING ... and use that list that I post in Post #57. If you want to support some organizations ... give them MONEY FOR NOTHING and not “in exchange” for products and services, because you’re giving them nothing if it’s in exchange for something that they do or make!
That’s my own fervent hope - that people will finally see the tyranny of the “antidiscrimination” laws for what they are, and restore the God-given right of every individual to choose his own associations, in both private and business life.
Forcing a business owner to provide service to everyone, regardless of his personal beliefs, was always the camel’s nose under the tent. Take away the right of free association, and all else is expediency and an exercise in raw power. If they can force me to serve whom they choose, why can’t they force me to accept them as a tenant? And lo and behold, they can. So why can’t they force me to accept them as a roommate? And lo, it came to pass.
Next they’ll be forcing me to accept them as a wife. What’s to stop them?
When people see that, then the whole rotten edifice will come crumbling down.
But conservatives never think of having the D party’s coalition fight amongst themselves, too busy writing essays about some abstract something or another to the true believers.
Get lost idiot!
I discriminate every day. Against sex offenders on my street with children, against drugged-up employees coming to work and trying to use dangerous machinery, against friends and co-workers with obvious flu symptoms.
Discrimination is good, and when the 1st Amendment gives me the right to practice my religion without the force of government, I’ll do it to my dying day.
Just a bunch of Godless pervert enablers making mischief.
Acknowledged that the blade of referring to faith or religion in law could cut more than one way. It’s still a beginning and is better than nothing. If anything it puts up another wall barring the intrusion of the state into the church.
I’m talking to a “lost idiot” (lost philosophically, at the least).
Whatever, I like Chick-fil-A and I hate the way they got dragged into this.
This just in.
Your comments would still apply, if you STARTED gay.
Aha!
You are so busted.
Cool it dude. Yes even I visit a Starbucks from time to time, when it is expedient. I also don’t go out raving about how wonderful they are and calling those who disagree idiots.
If you want to buy INFERIOR PRODUCTS and services that’s your business. As for me, I’ll buy the best stuff out on the market for what I want to do, and that’s the Apple Products.
I do my political stuff at the ballot box, and I vote regularly, and I involve myself with legislators who will put the laws into place. When I’m buying products, I’ll buy them for an exchange of money ... representing the product or service I’m buying.
If I want to support organizations for what they do either politically or religiously, I’ll give them MONEY FOR NOTHING ... just like those organizations I pointed out that people SHOULD SUPPORT with money for nothing ... in Post #57!
Both have their good points. Don’t remember the last time I saw a Popeye’s but they have better than average sides.
Android had most all of the “new” I phone advances of the new apple products long before they came out, and chick fillet sandwitches beat any of the other fast food chicken sandwitches hands down and do a real shake to boot.
But I do agree with you on buying utilitarian products. the problem I have however with your philosophy is that I see certain rich groups of leftist using their money and position in business to enforce their Marxist ideology on America. so for that reason I do not buy their products to try to slow down the advance of evil in our country. to me that is more important been having the latest greatest toy out there.
“In a free county, that is the way private property rights are supposed to work.The owner has the right of the use and disposal of his own private property as he desires.Since private property rights are natural rights that are God-given, they trump man made claims of inequality and discrimination.”
I wholeheartedly agree with you, however it is regretfully no longer an issue about private property. Now it is simply an issue of dictating the use of property. The private property war was lost with tobacco bans, and celebrated by many a FReeper.
I hope they are enjoying this Brave New World!
A human could not literally do that, but he could remind other people of this fear. That is when consciences were more sensitive.
The golden rule is not easy to use in a society that relishes hate.
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