Posted on 10/25/2018 9:47:06 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Four years ago, Tim Cook became the first CEO of a major company to come out as gay. He says he's happy about that distinction — and his decision.
"I'm very proud of it," the Apple (AAPL) CEO told Christiane Amanpour on Wednesday in an exclusive interview for her program on CNN International and PBS. Being gay is "God's greatest gift to me," he said.
Cook came out on October 30, 2014. His sexual orientation had been widely rumored beforehand though he had not confirmed it publicly.
"I was public because I started to receive stories from kids who read online that I was gay," he told Amanpour.
He said the emails and letters came from children who said they had been ostracized, bullied or abused because of their sexual orientation.
Cook said he is a private person but ultimately decided that he was being "selfish" by keeping quiet about his identity when he could help people by coming out.
"I needed to do something for them," Cook said. He wanted to demonstrate to gay children that they "can be gay and still go on and do some big jobs in life." Cook said he was shocked that he was the first out CEO of a Fortune 500 company. He said he is glad other CEOs have come out since, although that wasn't his goal.
Coming out has also helped Cook as a leader, he said.
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We are all tempted in different ways. One of the benefits of avoiding temptations, or even failing in a temptation, is being better able to help others avoid the same temptation.
Unfortunately, many who fail, end up encouraging others to succumb to the same temptation.
I hate di disappoint the man but if he knew God he would know the following
1 Corinthians 6:9-11 English Standard Version (ESV)
9 Or do you not know that the unrighteous[a] will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality,[b] 10 nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
Wow. My mind is boggled, just wow...
Faggies don’t reproduce. They recruit.
Ezekiel 7:19 comes to mind.
Oh, SNAP!
God still gave them sperm.
Until recently, homosexuality was widely recognized as a mental disorder. Despite the pc driven effort to normalize that aberrant behavior, it still is.
Tim Cook is a sick fella.
"God's greatest gift"
Many of them are lefties as well.
“Actually, God cares. And that is the tragedy of this. “
I am unsure of the meaning of your post.
Cook may have taken that the wrong way...
A blown out colon, anal leakage, wearing diapers, the suicidal depression, etc., ain’t a gift.
Hey “Thimmy”...the homosexual citizens of Sodom & Gomorrah respectfully disagree.
Being sick is not a gift.
Ichabod Creep will go down as the Captain of the Titanic as Apple slowly slips into irrelevancy without real creative genius behind them.
Jony Ive can only do so much.
And Cook’s outsourcing shtick is so 90’s...that’s all he ever had: the willingness to break the taboo and use slave labor in ChiCom land to make Macs.
Tim Cook can say that God’s greatest gift to him is being gay, without any repercussions. Yet if someone famous who is straight said that God’s greatest gift to him is being straight, he would immediately be attacked as being homophobic. According to the self-appointed arbiters of socially acceptable behavior (without fail, they are on the left), it’s alright to be proud of being gay, or transgender, or just about anything else. But you dare not vocalize any pride in being straight, or they will make you pay.
If I may quote The Meatmen: “Reef on this knuckle sandwich, we’re not tooling for anus!”
The greatest gift any man can receive from God is his grace, the salvation of our souls through Jesus Christ.
Since Jehovah CONDEMNS homosexual activity, I would surmise that Tim Cook is an idolator.
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