[Genoa]

And we know what those values are.....

[FlingWingFlyer]

The commie fags have the big money boys on the run. LOL!

[Personal Responsibility]

Did IBM suddenly enter the wedding business? Catering? Flowers? Band? Bakery?

[Eddie01]

The 1% attacks again.

[Dr. Thorne]

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

Utter BS. Talent goes where the money is. Screw IBM.

[DonaldC]

If these large corporations turned pro-American again, I might listen to them, otherwise I don’t care what they think.

[Genoa]

controversial religious freedom laws

The qualifier is needed because it would make no sense to oppose religious freedom, a basic American value, without first labeling it controversial and a disturber of the peace.

[TexasFreeper2009]

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.

[Star Traveler]

All the corporate entities and public organizations are going this way. The only ones who are not are just certain privately held companies ... who have owners who want to take a stand on the issue through their company.

It’s been a long time in arriving to this point, so if we are to turn it around, it will probably take just as long to fight back the other direction. It will have to be done through winning the majority of the public over, too.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

"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.

I doubt that. I'm sure that the bill allows liar IBM to hire whomever they please, and ultimately to have the anti-discrimination policy that it chooses.

Die, corporate scum.

[VanDeKoik]

It’s like you are a capitalist, and then you see these retarded companies use the benefits of it to rob you of your liberty!

I wish IBM still made computers so I could refuse to buy them.

[DiogenesLamp]

It’s time to make the Fascists stand up. What we need are states willing to tell them to go to H3ll.

[boycott]

People still use IBM?

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.