Posted on 02/20/2015 5:32:30 AM PST by massmike
Under openly gay CEO Tim Cook, Apple has done a lot to forward gay rights. A year ago, the company stood up against homophobic legislation going through Arizona and organized a company-wide march in San Franciscos annual gay pride parade.
All in all, Apples one of the most gay-friendly companies you can work for. So heres a shocker for you: When Apple figured out it had accidentally hired someone with a history of anti-gay activities, it quickly severed contact.
The hire in question was Jay Love, a former politician Apple hired to lobby on its behalf to the Alabama state legislature. The only issue? Love had a history of lobbying for anti-gay laws.
Buzzfeed, citing records from the Alabama Ethics Commission, says Apple recruited, then fired, conservative lobbyist Love after the company discovered the former state house speaker once sponsored legislation praising a beauty pageant contestant for opposing same-sex marriage.
As House speaker in the Alabama legislature in 2009, Love sponsored a resolution to give the states highest commendations to Carrie Prejean for publicly declaring her opposition to same-sex marriage during the Miss USA pageant. The legislation said the Southern state was honoring Prejean, who represented California, for affirming her faith and standing true to her beliefs
and this resolution is offered to her in tribute and with admiration.
(Excerpt) Read more at cultofmac.com ...
I would have preferred to buy AMD again....But my two current desktops use a 54 watt Intel Haswell CPU and run cool and quiet. No CPU fan noise which is nice. Video is on the Intel chip although on board the motherboard (old school these days) would have been fine with me
All the high tech companies are faggot loving leftists of the first degree.
Cadillac has a commercial out proudly showing two sodomites buying a car together.
Wait until one of them puts a dent in it. That stuff goes a lot deeper than most folks think.
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