Posted on 03/26/2015 1:20:15 PM PDT by reaganaut1
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) – Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff says he doesn’t want his employees subjected to discrimination as part of their work for the San Francisco-based company, and he is cancelling all required travel to the state of Indiana following the signing of a religious freedom law that some say allows business to exclude gay customers.
On Thursday, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence signed into law a religious objections bill that some business leaders have opposed amid concern it could allow discrimination against homosexuals.
Indiana is the first state to enact such a change this year among about a dozen where such proposals have been introduced. The measure would prohibit state and local laws that “substantially burden” the ability of people—including businesses and associations—to follow their religious beliefs.
Benioff says that goal puts Indiana law at odds with Salesforce philosophy.
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Funny thing since this hit the news. It was actually part of the discussion in the meeting I just got out of. We use salesforce.com and that is now being re-evaluated. One person is already tasked with finding alternative products to evaluate. Like anyone else, we don’t like people meddling in our affairs and as far as we are concerned, they can take their conventions and business elsewhere. The entire reason the law was passed is because of people like this making a big deal of something that doesn’t exist.
So basically SalesForce is refusing to do business with certain individuals because of their corporate philosophy. Oh, the irony! They should be forced to stay in Indiana, even if doing so would violate their corporate philosophy. That’s obviously what they want for others.
But, let's cut the Salesforce CEO some slack. In his hurry to be indignant and offended and judgmental (to prove how unjudgmental he is, Benioff simply missed that little detail. I'm sure he'll issue 19 more press releases about where he and his employees and clients will not travel.
But wait. These state laws are simply underscores of the bill that Clinton signed into law. So that would be, what? All of the states must now be on Benioff's verboten list.
Better get crankin with those 49 additional press releases, Marco. And we want an explanation for just why it took you 22 years to do it.
Saleforce can ROT IN HELL!
Saleforce can ROT IN HELL!
so... indiana needs a sales coordination tool?
NOTE TO SALES FORCE: Burger King put rainbow wrappers on hamburgers just in the state of Calif for Gay Pride month...that was several months ago and I live in Florida and i have not been back AGAIN. I switched to Wendy’s and Chik’n Filet.
So take your transgenders and stick them someplace
Freegards
LEX
Right. Are they not ‘refusing’ to do business with non-gays? That discrimination!
Looks like a good business opportunity for someone.
Just like Amazon?
Isn’t it amazing what six people with Twitter accounts can accomplish these days?
Honest interpretations of the Constitution serve the Lord imo.
We’ve had that same law since 1998 here in Illinois. No track record of it being used for anything discriminatory. It protects churches from out-of-control zoning boards and other mundane things like that. If they do get Indiana to back down (which I don’t expect), the next step would be to try and roll it back in the other states that already have it. It’s a “use the momentum” tactic. It’s how they got a number of those bad gun laws passed after Sandy Hook. Cynical tactic, but effective. Indiana needs to let this storm blow over. But it will put second thoughts into those states that don’t have it yet and are thinking about it.
Peace,
SR
We’re seeing a segregation in the workplace and marketplace based on politics. If you don’t fit the far left PC list or promise to never counter it, you can have your job and enter XYX businesses.
In the schools, such as conservatives almost banned from liberal campuses where being a conservative is a micro-aggression act worthy of being banned. So we see more homeschooling, Liberty University, etc.
When there is such a large division because one side drives the other out, violence and war become a possibility because there is already a divide.
Amazing how quick the poop sex lobby has responded to this, isn’t it? More states need to follow and not be intimidated, but the easily cowed will probably cave.
It all starts when the pendulum starts swinging, first to one side, then the other. Eventually, it reaches a point where there is no reconciling the two sides; they are simply too far apart. Then violence becomes not only possible but inevitable. The old order is destroyed and something -- not necessarily a BETTER something -- replaces it. Look at the French Revolution as an example.
It's called the historical dialectic, and it's hard at work in this country.
Jesus or Caesar? Hmmm.....
Oooohhhh, I’m so scared!
This economic impact will feel like barely a bump in the road.
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