Posted on 03/29/2015 9:23:01 PM PDT by Steelfish
Tim Cook: Apple Will Oppose Bills Like Indiana's 'Religious Freedom' Law
Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook on Sunday broadened his criticism of a new law in Indiana, which opponents say could be used to discriminate against gay people, to other states that he says have similar laws.
Indiana Gov. Mike Pence signed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act into law Thursday, sparking an outcry from those, including Cook, who say it could be used to protect businesses that refuse to serve gay people. The law's supporters say it will prevent the government from forcing business owners from providing services that go against their religious beliefs.
"These bills rationalize injustice by pretending to defend something many of us hold dear," Cook wrote in a Washington Post op-ed, referring not only to Indiana's law, which goes into effect in July, but also to those of "more than two dozen states."
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So by “APPLE-HATER TROLL”, are you saying that all of the people on FR that find this move by Apple to be repugnant like me are that?
Because there doesn’t seem to be anyone but you trying to sadly run cover for these guys in some way.
Have you found swordmaker yet?
Ok, whatever, Swordy.
Now that you’ve found your way here after pretending like you had no idea this was here all day, what is your view on this past the bulls*it attempt at calling everyone “Apple-Haters” or “Apple-Hate Mongering brigade” and the usually dodge it by name-calling garbage?
We are all dying to see if you will actually give a view on this or are you going to dodge and play stupid like Star Traveler has been doing all day?
I thought I should help you out here as to why I think I’m TALKING TO THE DEVIL ... when I’m talking to you.
Your comment here makes that very clear that you are of YOUR FATHER THE DEVIL!
You said ...
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You wear your religiosity like a cloak of invisibility ...
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Let’s be ACCURATE about this, in terms of what Jesus, the Messiah of Israel has told us.
I wear Jesus, the Messiah of Israel as a CLOAK OF RIGHTEOUSNESS. By his righteousness, I am DECLARED RIGHTEOUS by Jesus Himself!
And if you have not accepted Jesus as your personal Savior and as the ONLY WAY of Salvation ... YOU are of your FATHER - THE DEVIL!
HOWEVER, you can easily clear it up if I’m wrong, and you’re not of the Devil, by affirming Jesus as your Personal Savior and the ONLY WAY for Salvation, per Romans 10:9-10.
Let’s see which is right!
The kittehs are gonna get fat at this rate! Nom nom!
Hope you’re feeling well. I’m soooo looking forward to seeing you and Brian again! :)
Swordmaker already pinged the group! There are several articles on this and he only pings once per topic. Just look on his posts today and you’ll find it!
In answer to your other question ... ONLY YOU are an OBNOXIOUS APPLE-HATER TROLL, along with a small handful of others, who are as easily identifiable as you are!
Fortunately OBNOXIOUSNESS goes only with you and that very small group, and not all of Free Republic!
I would rather talk about you LYING about APPLE-HATER TROLLS and “calling everyone” that. That’s why you’re OBNOXIOUS, besides being an APPLE-HATER TROLL ... you’re a bald-faced LIAR!
Can’t wait to see all my Texas friends, either. I’m bald, but I’m
hoping that my hair will start to grow back soon.
I haven’t worn my hair short for fifty years, but it should grow
back in a few years, maybe four or five.
Swordmaker said ...
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As it happens I was driving from about 7:45PM last night until after 1AM. . . and did not even look at FreeRepublic until very late in the morning today. . . and find that I am being excoriated as a coward for not posting in a timely manner by the Apple-Hate Mongering brigade for something i usually get excoriated by the Apple-Hate brigade for doing at all. With the Apple-Haters you cannot win, no matter what one does.
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LOL ... I awoke this morning to find myself excoriated — by ole “86” — for being asleep! ... :-) ...
When I woke up, I found out that I was quite at fault for not answering back immediately! ... :-) ... and so after I got the kid to school, I figured I better make up for being so lazy and asleep!
Oh really?
Then how about giving us a link.
Ahhhh... Ursula is in fine fettle today! It’s nice to see her feisty self again. What a beauty!
Lol! Can’t imagine what he thinks of the 99% of comments that are equally disgusted at this.
We are used to it. The Apple-Hate mongering brigade has been doing this for years . . . without let-up. They did it before their was an overt and practicing out-of-the-closet gay man as CEO at Apple and they will continue to do it, despite the vast majority of Apple employees and users being heterosexual as are you and I. Tim Cook is making a huge mistake in taking this course and should be censured by the board of directors and the stockholders. He is adversely affecting the brand.
Alas, but I fear that it may not come down that way in today's environment. Too many people are afraid of being labeled as a "Gay basher" and will not speak out for fear the main-stream press will lash out at them. . . and the main-stream press will do everything in their very considerable power to do just that. We are at the tail-end of a 50 year campaign to main-stream deviancy and it has worked. Normalcy now, according to the accepted "wisdom" which is anything but wise, claims that a deviant life-style which is un-healthy and can lead to death and is not in God's plan for procreating, is "NORMAL" and should be embraced.
This LIBERAL LIE was SHOVED down our children's throats at the public schools and even in many of our Sunday Schools in the Liberal churches many of us attended, where we thought the Bible and morality was being taught. Our institutions of higher education became institutions of indoctrination of Liberal non-thinking while we were busy trying to earn a living to pay for the tuition they were charging us to indoctrinate our children in things we were unaware they were teaching.
A minority of us screamed out in the wilderness but could not be heard, because the Liberal liars had already taken over the means of being heard. . . while we worked at being productive, just wanting to live our lives in peace.
We slept through an invasion of our culture by another culture which as anathema to our beliefs. . . and WE LET IT HAPPEN!
Well, I had decided for several reasons, that my next computer and phone would be Apple products.
Apple’s political activism has seriously called into question whether I will go ahead with that decision. I do not want to be supporting political activism in companies I deal with for such products.
I totally disagree with putting someone out of business because of their Christian convictions. So I’m of the belief that no one on any side should be fired, or put out of business or even boycotted because of whatever their religious or political convictions are. I know there are people on both sides who want to shut down businesses and fire people (and they “work it” to do so).
That’s why I buy products for what they do and how it meets my requirements ... and then I support conservative candidates and support legislators to pass conservative laws, doing so in the realm of politics.
AND THEN ... I would also like to see everyone who says that they won’t buy Apple Products, not buy Google products (like Android) and not buy Microsoft products ... in the same way! Then if they did that with Android and Microsoft, I would then believe they were being CONSISTENT with Apple. If they don’t do it the same way with Microsoft and Android, then they are HYPOCRITES!!
Mind you, I don’t say that I refuse to buy Microsoft or Android or Apple, because I’m only buying those products as to whether they are better or worse, in and of themselves. But those others are buying (or not buying) because of politics. I go to the ballot box and to my conservative legislators for politics.
I live in Arkansas and our legislature has passes a similar law and the hysteria over this amazes me. We have so many problems in this country yet here we are expending untold energy over these types of bills.
You are an member of the Apple-Hate mongering brigade and have been since i have been posting the ping list. I do not equate everyone's abhoration of Tim Cook's pushing of his Gay agenda as being members of the Apple Haters. . . that is YOUR generalizing the name you and a few others have earned to everyone who is angry at a specific event to Apple products in general. I am pissed of at Tim Cook making his personal vendetta into something Apple should not be doing. Steve Jobs understood this and kept Apple out of politics. He was very careful about that. Cook is being very foolish and stupid.
I do not appreciate you calling me a liar. Don''t do it again. Of course, you will, it's part of your Alinsky stock-in-trade of attacking Apple users. Freeze, polarize, and ridicule, . . Saul Alinsky's rules for Radicals Rules #12 & #5.
If you want to see WHO those APPLE-HATER TROLLS are besides you ... just look at who gets called an APPLE-HATER TROLL ... :-) ...
That’s the easy way to do it. I won’t be pulling another Apple-Hater Troll into the discussion and open up the pathway to another OBNOXIOUS poster. If they show up, then you’ll see it when I spot them! ...
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