IBM Warns Louisiana Over 'Religious Freedom' Bill [LGBT Mafia Hijacks American Corporations]

CNN ^ | April 17, 2015 | Charles Riley

[Steelfish]

IBM Warns Louisiana Over 'Religious Freedom' Bill

By Charles Riley IBM has sent a letter to the governor of Louisiana warning that a pending religious freedom bill would create a hostile environment for the tech company's employees.

"A bill that legally protects discrimination based on same-sex marriage status will create a hostile environment for our current and prospective employees, and is antithetical to our company's values," IBM vice president James Driesse wrote in a letter to Gov. Bobby Jindal.

"IBM will find it much harder to attract talent to Louisiana if this bill is passed and enacted into law," Driesse said. The letter asks Jindal to work with the state legislature to "ensure this legislation is not discriminatory." IBM has made significant investments in Louisiana, including a technology services delivery center in Baton Rouge.

The letter is the latest warning from corporate America to states that are considering controversial religious freedom laws. In Indiana and Arkansas, an intense backlash has already forced lawmakers to make revisions.

[boycott]

People still use IBM?

[DiogenesLamp]

Another company to mark off my will do business with list, along with :

Angies List Apple and now IBM

I WILL NOT DO BUSINESS with or buy products from an aggressively pro sodomite company who attacks Christians.

This is how I feel as well.

[VanDeKoik]

Buy everything used.

That way you dont put your money into their pockets or deprive yourself of the ability to have a device.

[headstamp 2]

So big business now dictates what laws will be passed in state governments in today’s America. Big business will decide what is constitutional or not.

[notdownwidems]

Same BS that I heard on a regular basis while contracting for IBM in the Global Services division in Boulder, CO from 2006-2010; as I’ve said in other posts, WORST job I ever had, working for IBM! THEY SUCK

[Steve_Seattle]

"A bill that legally protects discrimination based on same-sex marriage status will create a hostile environment for our current and prospective employees . . . "

A company that says I have no tight to exercise my conscience creates a hostile environment for ME. Eff IBM. For libs, the "hostile environment" concept - just like "civility" - only goes one way.

[headstamp 2]

Said the scumbags for more H1B Visas to drive American wages down.

[Joe 6-pack]

We don’t want that kind of, “talent,” in Louisiana.

[DiogenesLamp]

It will have to be done through winning the majority of the public over, too.

If we can't compete in the Entertainment media industry, (How do you think they got buggery to poll well?) then we aren't going to be able to win the public over.

We have Goebbels style homo propaganda on all channels now being piped into people's homes. Every magazine is filled with it. Homosexuals have been painted in the manner of blacks fighting for civil rights. The propaganda is simply everywhere.

[nathanbedford]

The lesson from the national turnaround about gay marriage and gay rights and the reciprocal diminution of religious liberty for conservatives is that culture trumps politics and culture trumps law. Many of the battles that we lose at the ballot box or in the courts have in reality been already lost in the schools, churches, television studios and press rooms of America.

The left has been very effective at conditioning our institutions from the bottom up until they can impose a top-down solution to their liking. We conservatives have been wholly ineffective in attending to the basic institutions which ultimately determine our fate.

The best route for conservatives today, well there still is some time and some semblance of conservative thinking abroad in the land is to resort to the constitutional provisions of Article V. That Avenue offers a top-down solution via a bottom-up route.

[Steve_Seattle]

"WORST job I ever had, working for IBM! THEY SUCK"

I DETEST IBM's TV commercials, the ones that say "We are IBMers." First of all, they seem to think that they've got to ostentatiously display their so-called "diversity" by having every other word spoken by a person of a different ethnicity or gender. Plus, there's the annoying "we are SO SMART" tone.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Is there any major manufacturer of any hi-tech product that doesn’t take that stance?!

This might as well be Rollerball, where the corporations run everything.

[Star Traveler]

Now that hits on a sore point with me personally, as I hate used ... except for things I use ... :-) ...

[Ohioan]

Let's be blunt. If Louisiana repeals any Legislation that would force someone to hire or do business with someone, against their conscience; that would not prevent IBM from hiring or retaining the services of anyone, the management considered acceptable.

What IBM seems to want, here, is a right to veto the free choices of others; the right of Louisianans to make their own decisions in their own affairs. What IBM appears to want is to dictate its preferences to others, not in IBM's affairs, but in those others' affairs.

That anti-freedom desire is not a reasonable position for a IBM to take. At the least it is a display of arrogant disdain for their Louisiana neighbors.

[DiogenesLamp]

It will be impossible to have any computer product or hi-tech device if one doesn’t do business with any of those companies. You’ll have to add Microsoft and Android (Google) to that, too, plus some others.

This is irrelevant to the point. If they were antisemitic Nazi corporations, you wouldn't insist on doing business with them anyway.

These people have taken a very Fascist stance, and we need to hurt them any way we can. How about this solution? Just don't upgrade. Use what you've got. Most of what I see that's new isn't much of an improvement anyway.

Switch to Linux. Switch to foreign manufactures.

If you don't need it, don't buy it. Each person can answer for themselves whether abstaining from purchasing their products will do more good or harm.

[JJ_Folderol]

“IBM will find it much harder to attract talent to Louisiana if this bill is passed and enacted into law”

BS! I doubt the H1B employees will give a damn.

[DiogenesLamp]

Better yet if IBM wants to play the politics game perhaps those states should replace IBM products software and services from companies that don’t threaten states who do what they determine is best for their citizens.

I would start an immediate campaign to root out Apple products being used by state agencies in every state under Republican control. Probably just force them to meet competitive bid specs will do it. The Education establishment has long favored Apple due to marketing campaigns starting back in the 1970s.

I would like to see a lot more reliance on Linux, then we can say a pox on all the Homo-Fascist computer companies.

[EQAndyBuzz]

“IBM vice president James Driesse wrote in a letter to Gov. Bobby Jindal.”

And I am betting James Driesse or someone very close to him will come out in 3..2..1.

[onedoug]

It’s the whole Constitution that’s under attack, and particularly the Bill Of Rights.

The states must take up their Constitutional imperative in another type of civil war. There future for our children and grandchildren will be very dark if they don’t.

[DiogenesLamp]

Buy everything used.

That way you dont put your money into their pockets or deprive yourself of the ability to have a device.

This is what I do with movies. I don't want to give Hollywood a nickle if I can help it.