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Elwood P Dowd

(11,443 posts)
Mon Mar 30, 2015, 10:54 PM Mar 2015

Indiana manages to piss off the world's richest company.

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.


There’s 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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Indiana manages to piss off the world's richest company. (Original Post) Elwood P Dowd Mar 2015 OP
They are going to have to be hit in their pocketbook. This is not endearing Thinkingabout Mar 2015 #1
Mahalo Tim Cook! Thanks Elwood Cha Mar 2015 #2
You're welcome. Elwood P Dowd Mar 2015 #4
How do you manage to have only 7,952 posts? Cha Mar 2015 #6
Take long breaks from posting to keep my sanity Elwood P Dowd Mar 2015 #7
... SoapBox Mar 2015 #8
thanking Mr. Cook Skittles Mar 2015 #3
Try this one. Elwood P Dowd Mar 2015 #5
Mr. Cook should make sure to mention Indiana's hate law more often at seminars. Major Hogwash Mar 2015 #9
That's an owie! raven mad Mar 2015 #10

Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)
1. They are going to have to be hit in their pocketbook. This is not endearing
Mon Mar 30, 2015, 10:58 PM
Mar 2015

His state to others and to be honest, enough is enough. Stop this crap.

Major Hogwash

(17,656 posts)
9. Mr. Cook should make sure to mention Indiana's hate law more often at seminars.
Tue Mar 31, 2015, 01:53 AM
Mar 2015

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.

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