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Dozens of big U.S. companies to back gay marriage
Fortune ^ | February 26, 2013 | Roger Parloff

Posted on 03/05/2013 4:54:36 PM PST by Lurking Libertarian

On Thursday, dozens of American corporations, including Apple, Alcoa, Facebook, eBay, Intel, and Morgan Stanley will submit an amicus brief in the landmark Hollingsworth v. Perry case broadly arguing to the U.S. Supreme Court that laws banning same-sex marriages, like California's ballot initiative Proposition 8, are unconstitutional under the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses. According to a draft copy obtained by Fortune, the companies argue that such laws "send an unmistakeable signal that same-sex couples are in some way inferior to opposite-sex couples, a proposition that is anathema to amici's commitment to equality and fair treatment to all." At least 60 companies had committed to signing the brief as of Tuesday evening, according to Joshua Rosenkranz, who is counsel of record on the brief and head of the Supreme Court and appellate litigation practice at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe. That number is expected to rise by Thursday, however, according to Rosenkranz. Others who have already committed to sign include AIG, Becton Dickinson, Cisco, Cummins, Kimpton, Levi Strauss, McGraw Hill, NCR, Nike, Office Depot, Oracle, Panasonic, Qualcomm, and Xerox. (Update: Verizon and Cablevision have now joined.)

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: celebrateperversity; corporateliberalism; corporations; culturewar; downourthroats; homosexualagenda; proposition8; samesexmarriage; spotthetroll; ssm; thetrollsfoolnoone
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To: steve86
And nohing he has tried, even with his excuses, has improved sales. In fact, JCP sales slump has exceeded all analysts' forcasts.

And he was sure in a hurry to pay off DeGenerate and get her out of the picture. Too late.

And why hasn't DeGenerate complained that she is nowhere in the picture? Surely she was discriminated against.

yitbos

81 posted on 03/05/2013 11:09:54 PM PST by bruinbirdman ("Those who control language control minds." -- Ayn Rand)
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To: ronnie raygun
transgender, beastiality and pedophilia up next

Yep...

82 posted on 03/05/2013 11:17:28 PM PST by nutmeg (Who and WHERE are the Benghazi survivors??)
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To: Lurking Libertarian

Corporatism is more profitable with disposable worker-bees.

Only the Royal Elites should be allowed the luxury of raising heirs.


83 posted on 03/06/2013 4:31:09 AM PST by TArcher
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To: boop

>>how can ANYONE argue against polygamy

If there’s an argument to be made against it, I expect it might be found in an historical analysis and comparison of the socio-biological fitness of tribal harems Vs cultures composed of monogamous families.

Which reproductive strategy yields greater long-term fitness?


84 posted on 03/06/2013 4:38:46 AM PST by TArcher
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To: heye2monn; SoFloFreeper
[Big businesses often complain about family decay, the toll of divorces and unwed motherhood.]

Observe that the deseretian model for Corporatism (the fascist merger of government and commerce) is a Hive populated by disposable worker bees.



Bzzzz.

85 posted on 03/06/2013 4:45:08 AM PST by TArcher
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To: Lurking Libertarian

It's all about money:  with a demographic that is educated and has cash is where the companies wanna be...   It's time that decent people vote with their wallet and make the point known:  marriage is intended for a man and a woman!
86 posted on 03/06/2013 4:47:58 AM PST by GirlShortstop (Every person has a duty to seek and serve the truth. Abp Charles J. Chaput, OFMCap)
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To: nutmeg; ronnie raygun

It’s self-evidently a manifestation of the nexus between Transhumanist-Postgenderist and elitist Fabian Socialist doctrine.

http://www.google.com/search?q=Transhumanism+Postgenderism

http://www.google.com/search?q=Fabian+Socialism

Observe that these present day abominations are emerging the same inbred elite social circles that brought folks Eugenics a century ago... for our “improvement”, of course.


87 posted on 03/06/2013 4:53:05 AM PST by TArcher
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To: GirlShortstop

>>It’s all about money:

Look closer.

What was it all about 100 years ago — when the Fabian Socialist elitist bee keeper Eugenicists “improved” things back then?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics

Same Ol’ crap, new and improved collectivist toilet.


88 posted on 03/06/2013 4:57:29 AM PST by TArcher
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To: bruinbirdman

>>Blech!!!

You obviously need another round of desensitization.

Back in to Room 101 you go!


89 posted on 03/06/2013 5:01:54 AM PST by TArcher
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To: noinfringers2
I believe a competent lawyer can argue/make the case
 
Yep.  And it can be made without religious entanglements:
 
 
Sex, Evolution and Behavior
By Martin Daly and Margo Wilson
 
 
Got Socio-Biological Fitness?
 
 "Gay" penguins don't - not even in the San Francisco zoo
http://www.google.com/#sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&source=hp&q=San+Francisco+gay+penguins
 
FAIL.

90 posted on 03/06/2013 5:07:05 AM PST by TArcher
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To: AnAmericanAbroad

>>What big business wants, big business gets.

“COMMERCE BETWEEN MASTER AND SLAVE IS DESPOTISM”
—Thomas Jefferson

What does this mean?


91 posted on 03/06/2013 5:08:42 AM PST by TArcher
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To: dfwgator; AnAmericanAbroad

>>Big business also wants socialized medicine...

Corporate Fascism thrives best when disposable worker-bees are obediently docile and self-medicating.

Is W’s pharmaceutical entitlement plan bearing fruit from the lobotomized proletariat yet?


92 posted on 03/06/2013 5:13:23 AM PST by TArcher
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To: Linda Frances
They hate that all major religions (God) say homosexuality is wrong and harmful.
 
What is the multignerational sociobiological fitness of a homosexual pair compared with that of a heterosexual pair?
 
 
Sex, Evolution and Behavior
By Martin Daly and Margo Wilson
 
 
Got Socio-Biological Fitness?
 
 "Gay" penguins don't - not even in the San Francisco zoo
http://www.google.com/#sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&source=hp&q=San+Francisco+gay+penguins
 
FAIL.
 
It's time the Eunuchs be driven from the steps of the temple - again.

93 posted on 03/06/2013 5:18:46 AM PST by TArcher (The Eunuchs are doing bidness on the steps of the temple... again.)
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To: Lurking Libertarian; JDW11235; Clairity; TheOldLady; Spacetrucker; Art in Idaho; GregNH; ...

FReepmail me to subscribe to or unsubscribe from the SCOTUS ping list.

94 posted on 03/06/2013 6:16:59 AM PST by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind.)
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To: steve86

We have decades worth of social science proving the Ten Commandments and Bible correct. What do lieberals have?


95 posted on 03/06/2013 6:34:42 AM PST by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: Lurking Libertarian

Uh-mee-cus or am-uh-cus?


96 posted on 03/06/2013 6:40:41 AM PST by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind.)
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To: BuckeyeTexan
Dozens of big U.S. companies to back gay marriage

Good for them. Let them deal with it in their state. In the meantime, SCOTUS needs to remand this issue back to the states where it belongs.

97 posted on 03/06/2013 7:00:18 AM PST by PapaNew
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To: BuckeyeTexan
Uh-mee-cus or am-uh-cus?

Uh-MEE-cus

98 posted on 03/06/2013 7:50:51 AM PST by Lurking Libertarian (Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege)
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To: bruinbirdman

That was my reaction to the degenerate one spokesperson. I can’t boycott everyone, but there are some I certainly can avoid. The interesting thing though, is, those I am aware of personally have other issues as well. I grew up being a Penny’s shopper, but left them several years ago when they went around the back sneaky door to close their store in my town. Added to their drastic drop in quality


99 posted on 03/06/2013 8:18:43 AM PST by handmade
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To: olezip; 185JHP; 230FMJ; AFA-Michigan; AKA Elena; APatientMan; Abathar; Absolutely Nobama; ...
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The push for homo-marriage/same sex marriage is ramping up like a tsunami as it approaches the shallow water near the shore. And, like a tsunami, terrible damage is all that will result.

Anyone wanting on/off either ping list, freepmail me.

100 posted on 03/06/2013 12:32:00 PM PST by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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