Posted on 03/30/2015 7:16:05 AM PDT by Michael van der Galien
Apple CEO Tim Cook isn’t happy with Indiana’s new bill to restore religious freedom. He explains why in an op-ed for the Washington Post:
"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."
There’s certainly an argument to be made for the view that discriminatory practices towards gays are morally unacceptable. I believe, for instance, that people should be able to live the life they want to live, whether others think it wrong or not. As long as they aren’t hurting anyone else, leave them alone. If gays, therefore, want to marry or live together: have fun.
However, that isn’t the real subject here.
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
Draw a pentagram on the floor, hack up a goat..
Wonder how fast I would be "asked to leave"?????
BTW..I am a gay witch..NOW WHAT YA GOING TO DO???
The gay flag is burning and no water to put it out.
States shouldn’t even need to enact laws like this. It’s a First Amendment guarantee.
Let me finish that beer first..will be able to help then!!!!!
What is the difference between an individual refusing to buy someone’s services and a self-employed person refusing to sell them? Wonder how Tim Cook would it if all those lefty boycotts were declared illegal?
I hear you on that.
Next time Cook takes questions, a reporter should ask him what was in his mouth last night...
To answer the headline, religious freedom is more important, which is why it is a Constitutionally protected right. But it means real religion, not violent political ideologies.
Because you can’t just let people say and do any old thing they want. It wouldn’t be fair. :-)
Fox Business News reported that “important figures” like Miley Cyrus and Hillary Clinton are upset over the new law in Indiana.
Oh my!!
Hahaha, probably “immediately.” But that’s different. After all, you’re a conservative!111!1!
Exactly! Very good point.
Michael Jordan, NIKE spokesman and a confirmed Democrat, was once asked why he didn’t do more to promote the Democrat Party.
His response was along the lines of: Republicans buy shoes, too.
Tim Cook could profit from his example.
I was an early devotee of Apple products—In fact, I bought a Macintosh while was co-oping for IBM because I thought the Mac was superior to the PC.
I will not purchase another Apple product until Tim Cook is removed and Apple repudiates him.
It’s becoming illegal to be stupid.
Stupid as our better define it.
Important figures?
Talk to me in 100 years.
Miley Cyrus famous for soft core porn. Hillary Clinton famous for being famous.
He’s gay, of course he opposes it.
It’s not like they are being refused hamburgers. It’s wedding cakes. It’s the principle of marriage.
My sincerely held religious beliefs tell me (and ALL Christians) that committing homosexual acts is a capital offense — as bad as or worse than murder. Now, clearly, I am not going to take it upon myself to go around killing faggots. But the state should not have any power to make me interact with such perverts.
It’s bad enough that the government no longer passes laws that comport with the Biblical Law the country was founded upon. But forcing business owners to bring filthy, diseased people into their place of business (hence putting employees other customers at risk) goes WAY too far.
I disagree with you all. I should be able to go into a muslim restaurant and be able to order a pork chop.
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