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Apple CEO Tim Cook blistered them in The Washington Post. I doubt most of these idiot repukes even know Tim Cook is gay. Most of these Neanderthals probably don't even know how to operate a computer.
The Washington Post, March 29
By Tim Cook
Tim Cook is CEO of Apple.
Theres something very dangerous happening in states across the country.
A wave of legislation, introduced in more than two dozen states, would allow people to discriminate against their neighbors. Some, such as the bill enacted in Indiana last week that drew a national outcry and one passed in Arkansas, say individuals can cite their personal religious beliefs to refuse service to a customer or resist a state nondiscrimination law.
Others are more transparent in their effort to discriminate. Legislation being considered in Texas would strip the salaries and pensions of clerks who issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples even if the Supreme Court strikes down Texas marriage ban later this year. In total, there are nearly 100 bills designed to enshrine discrimination in state law.
These bills rationalize injustice by pretending to defend something many of us hold dear. They go against the very principles our nation was founded on, and they have the potential to undo decades of progress toward greater equality.
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Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)His state to others and to be honest, enough is enough. Stop this crap.
Cha
(297,446 posts)Elwood P Dowd
(11,443 posts)How do you manage to post 159,000 times?
Cha
(297,446 posts)Elwood P Dowd
(11,443 posts)and sleep better at night.
Skittles
(153,170 posts)you gotta link, Elwood?
Elwood P Dowd
(11,443 posts)Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)They just held a big seminar here in Boise last week when this news broke about Indiana.
And it really upset quite a few techies that were attending the seminar here.
It also renewed the angst felt here over the controversy of Idaho's own discriminatory state Constitution.
raven mad
(4,940 posts)Love it.