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.
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
I’m talking about normal people ... not APPLE-HATER TROLLS like you! Get Lost!
Now, you’re just “going nuts” ... which is more like the Lazamataz I’m familiar with ... LOL ...
LMAO!
The myth of “born that way” is being exposed and now it is simply an elected fetish. Will ANY sexual fetish have special status now?
Cook is just pushing for special rights and does not care about any debtate as long as both sides of the argument are in favor of protecting HIS sex habits.
Too bad the CEO of Mozilla did not have the same right to respect and freedom of choice. He got fired for supporting the 6000 year tradition of marriage. We have countless examples of people that do not agree with Cook, loosing their jobs and their business'. I guess the homosexual community is just fine with that. What's next, death to those deniers?
You're slipping. You fogot the LOLs and smileys.
“Too Many Cooks Spoil the Broth.” In Apple’s case that’s one too many.
That’s what happens with APPLE-HATER TROLLS like you ... bad on comprehension ... they look for the smileys and ignore the Get Lost!
The MSM (note that means something other than “media”) part of the effete media are pushing the myth of public support for these 2% tops fetishists.
They live in their own group thing bubble where the abnormal is normal.
That’s why I don’t do my politics in buying products. I just buy the products for the products themselves. When I get involved politically, I’m not talking about firing people in companies for political actions, but I vote at the ballot box for political actions.
If I want to fire someone for political reasons, that means that I can be fired just as easily for my political reasons ... which I don’t want. Now, whomever decides to fire people for politics ... they are wrong. They need to vote in legislators for our conservative positions and have them pass laws giving protection for all in their jobs.
I buy products for the products themselves, vote legislators into office for their conservative positions and then “give money for nothing” for organizations that I want to support otherwise, like the list I gave in an earlier post ...
It's a bitch when you bark orders and people don't jump :).
It just shows there’s no intelligence in APPLE-HATER TROLLS ... you don’t understand Get Lost!
Do you ever stop and think about the fact that it is because of people like you that APPLE-HATER TROLLS exist in the first place? In effect, you create them with your unquestioning Apple zealotry.
Since I think Apple makes the best products and I buy them, I say that I buy them ... that CREATES APPLE TROLLS? ... LOL ...
Did you ever consider that if you weren’t so insistent that Liberals were all wrong that there would be no Liberals, since you created them by your “conservative talk”? ... LOL ...
That’s how you sound ... :-) ...
I understand that you saying it doesn't count for squat.
And the Persians during the Battle of Thermopylae.
Obviously, with you being an APPLE-TROLL, you want to harass and ignore GET LOST!
Apple sux.
21st century ECONOMY????
what does THAT have to do with these laws??
It's a threat.
He's a functional oligarch. He's saying that if Christians don't give up their religion and accept the legal superiority of gays, he will use his significant economic power and influence to destroy State economies.
It's a naked threat.
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