Posted on 11/01/2014 6:01:59 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Other than Russia's notorious anti-gay activist Vitaly Milonov calling for a “lifetime ban” on Tim Cook's travels, the reactions to the Apple CEO's coming out Thursday were mostly predictable and tame. Social media was full of praise, as were liberal politicians. Most conservatives kept mum, except for “iPhone-loving” Ted Cruz, who dismissed Cook's orientation as “his personal choice.”
And why should there be any hoopla? It's 2014, after all. Same-sex marriage is now legal for a majority of the U.S. population. Coming out isn't the big deal it once was even five years ago, especially for a CEO long rumored to be gay and who never really hid his sexuality. Sure, Apple is one of the largest, most widely respected companies in the world, but Cook will presumably just be joining a list of other Fortune 500 CEOs who have come out.
Except he isn't. He is the list. According to the Human Rights Campaign, no other Fortune 500 CEO has publicly declared himself or herself to be gay. A recent CNBC article about “CEOs who are openly gay” lists all of seven people, three of who are former CEOs. So when the head of the most iconic technology company in the world goes on record as being gay, it's a big deal.
But the fact that Cook came out is perhaps less noteworthy than the way he did it. In an essay in Bloomberg Businessweek, Cook describes being gay as “one of the greatest gifts God has given me.” He then goes on to explain what those gifts are: a deep understanding of being in the minority, greater empathy, confidence to follow his own path and rise above adversity, and the “skin of a rhinoceros.” “love the sinner and hate the sin.”
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I had recently purchased an iPhone. My first and last Apple product.
Did Tim Cook grow up attending church in Alabama? If so, where did he go?
Cook realized that “coming out” would have no negative impact to his company.
Unlike, for example, a CEO who came out as being “pro-life” or affirming that marriage should be between one man and one woman.
Well, that may be true, but Tim Cook is still going to burn in hell forever. To claim that the lowest level of perversion is a “Gift from God”.
Wow.
Fifty years from now, all the money, the fame, and the self-deluded “inspiration” will be gone. There will only be torment. And it will never end.
I really didn’t care when it happened, given what I know about what Apple, Microsoft, and most of the big computer/programming companies support already, it wasn’t much of a surprise.
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