Posted on 04/06/2015 5:12:04 AM PDT by Kaslin
Columnist George Will points out that Apple’s openly gay CEO, Tim Cook, “…thinks Indiana is a terrible place. (But) He opened marketing and retail operations in Saudi Arabia two months before a man was sentenced to 450 lashes for being gay.”
Will was commenting on Cook’s recent Washington Post op-ed protesting Indiana’s new, now amended, Religious Freedom Restoration Act and similar initiatives around the country.
World Magazine reports that Cook has recently been in the United Arab Emirates negotiating on behalf of Apple, where homosexuality is against the law and the penalty is death.
Cook’s duplicity is not just in deeds, but also in words.
The Indiana law was passed to protect religious freedom, mirroring existing federal law and law in 31 states around the nation.
Our Declaration of Independence notes our inalienable rights to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” But for Cook, who purports in his op-ed to care about freedom, protection of “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” for a Christian is an act of aggression against gays.
He renders religious freedom meaningless by accusing those, who exercise their right of protection, of discrimination against those who wish to violate their rights.
“This isn’t a political issue. It isn’t a religious issue. This is about how we treat each other as human beings,” he writes. You would think that Cook, CEO of the most valuable company in the world, with a reported personal net worth of $400 million, could perceive his transparent double standard.
For him and other homosexual activists, Christians cannot observe their religion and live by the Bible’s words they hold sacred without discriminating against gays. If this is about “how we treat each other as human beings,” as Cook writes, then how can he justify a same-sex couple going to a baker or photographer they well know is Christian, for whom homosexuality is a sin, and demand a cake or photography for a gay wedding. Can Tim Cook really believe that this is decent, tolerant, freedom loving human behavior?
The truth is that the objective of the homosexual campaign is not about American freedom. The objective is the de-legitimization and annihilation of Christianity in America.
This did not begin yesterday.
It is now well over a half century that the words of our constitution are being distorted so that the very protections guaranteed for Christians are used as weapons against them.
From the prohibition of prayer in school, to prohibitions of public displays of the Ten Commandments and Christian symbols, to lawsuits against Christian photographers for refusing to provide the photography for gay weddings, the war against Christian presence in America becomes increasingly open and aggressive.
And what has happened over the last half century while this has been going on?
The institutions and behavior that provide the glue holding together a faithful, civil, and virtuous society have collapsed. The traditional American family is in shambles. Forty three percent of our babies now born to unwed mothers compared to 5 percent a half century ago. And over 56 million aborted unborn children.
It was not by accident that America’s first president George Washington warned the young nation, in his farewell address, that religion and morality are “indispensible” to “political prosperity” and he cautioned against “the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion.”
Meanwhile, as legal violence is used in the war on Christianity at home, physical violence is used in the same war in Muslim countries abroad. The Wall Street Journal reports that Christians today make up 5 percent of the population in the Middle East compared to 20 percent a hundred years ago.
As many political and business leaders cowardly enable this global war on Christianity, Christians must stand in defense of themselves and their religion and convictions.
“While it had been reported in early 2011 that Cook was gay,[40][41] Cook chose to keep his personal life private.[42] He did publicly support the rights of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people.[43] In October 2014, the Alabama Academy of Honor inducted Cook, who spoke about his home state’s record of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights.[44] The Academy of Honor is the highest honor Alabama gives its citizens.[45]
On October 30, 2014, Cook came out as gay in an editorial for Bloomberg Businessweek, stating “I’m proud to be gay, and I consider being gay among the greatest gifts God has given me.”[46] Cook also explained that he has been open about his sexuality “for years” and, while many people at Apple were aware of his sexual orientation, he sought to focus on Apple’s products and customers rather than his personal life. He ended the article by saying “We pave the sunlit path toward justice together, brick by brick. This is my brick.”[47] As a result, Tim Cook also became the first openly gay CEO on the Fortune 500 list.[48]”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Cook
He thinks being gay is the greatest gift God has given him.
If it wasn’t for double standards, Liberals would have no standards at all..
If logic mattered with homosexuals, the closet would be the only rational place to be. They feel if Americans can be forced to accept absurdity, the world will follow. Too bad they can’t find a judge or a legislature to void or amend natural law. Society, customs and culture, regardless of occasional aberrancies, tends to reflect natural law who’s prime concern is procreation.
God did not give him that “gift”. I believe that was given by another entity that he chose to follow.
Religious freedom and sodomite “rights” cannot co-exist. One or the other must be destroyed.
It depends on which entity he's "chosen" to be his god. One is the author of the 10 Commandments. The other is the author of their opposites - political correctness.
"Choose thou, whom will you serve?"
Cause all them Christians are killing folks the world over.
Oh, NO. That would be the damned moosie bastards the world over.
The war against Christianity and traditional values continues, but those caught in the line of fire, such as Barronelle Stutzman, the Christian florist in WA, are getting some needed relief. Barronelle is the 70-year-old grandmother who was sued by her homosexual “friend” and the state of WA for referring the longtime “friend” to another florist for a “gay wedding” event, and is at risk of losing her home and business.
Her GoFundMe totals have risen sharply in the past few days. As of 8:41 EDT, the donation total for her has reached $95,318.
http://www.gofundme.com/mz6zm4
Romans 1:25 They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.
Perfect quote. Mind if I use it?
"Vengeance is mine, sayeth the Lord."
Nature and natures God has dealt with homosexuals many times before. Christians will not be forsaken. The homosexuals will be dealt with again soon. That bigger, better, faster homosexual disease is on it's way.
They can't declare war on nature and natures God and expect to win.
Not at all. Use it in good health.
Time for a Christian baker to charge a Gay customer with “antagonizing” them. As a friend on FC pointed out. He did not ask for a “Straight” wedding cake. isn’t antagonizing a form of harassment?
Thanks. My FB friends like it!
This persecution will most likely become much worse. Each Christian has to begin contemplating at what point will armed revolt be justifiable. Or, if doing nothing and bowing down to evil is the better part of valor.
Do you suppose that $400M will buy his way into heaven when he stands in front of God?
To homosexuals, Christianity is a constant and painful reminder of what they are.
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