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Apple Urges Arizona Governor To Veto Anti-Gay Legislation
Hugh Pickens DOT Com writes "According to NBC, Apple has confirmed that it urged Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer to veto a bill that would allow business owners with strongly held religious beliefs to deny service to gays and lesbians. Last November Tim Cook announced that Apple was building a sapphire glass plant in Mesa, AZ, that would bring 2,000 new jobs to the state. 'Apple is indisputably one of the world's most innovative companies and I'm thrilled to welcome them to Arizona,' said Gov. Brewer at the time. 'Apple will have an incredibly positive economic impact for Arizona and its decision to locate here speaks volumes about the friendly, pro-business climate we have been creating these past four years.' According to Philip Elmer-DeWitt, it sounds like Tim Cook may be having second thoughts about how 'friendly' and 'pro-business' the climate in Arizona really is."
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StoneCypher is Full of BS
Very few brilliant scientists are atheists.
I opposed it because marriage is none of the Federal government's f*ing business.
This is where you are wrong and where everyone who keeps parroting this dumb line is conpletely wrong..
Marriage is irrespective of religion. You can have marriages that never come into contact with any religion. Marriages are fucking contracts. Contract law is certainly part of Federal law.
is it okay for the State to tell someone they can't do business with someone they don't like?
All of your english teachers are crying. This sentence right here is what shows the fucking contortions that the anti-gay-marriage idiots have to go through to explain their "logic."
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"This is where you are wrong and where everyone who keeps parroting this dumb line is conpletely wrong."
First: I wasn't "parroting" anything, asshole, I was describing my personal reasons for doing something.
"Marriage is irrespective of religion. You can have marriages that never come into contact with any religion. "
I didn't say anything about religion, and I didn't mean anything about religion. Religion has zero to do with my comment. Where did you dream this shit up?
"Marriages are fucking contracts. Contract law is certainly part of Federal law."
No, it is not. The only thing the Constitution has to say about contracts is: "No State shall ... pass any ... Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts". (Article 1, Section 10.)
Contract law is from Common Law, predating the Constitution and which has absolutely nothing to do with the Federal government at all (with the exception of Federal fraud statutes which govern interstate trade). It is almost entirely governed by the States and their courts, based on said Common Law.
You, sir, for all your insulting bullshit, don't have the slightest fucking clue what you're talking about. Fuck off.
The "march of history" seems to be going backwards to those ancient decadent cultures that celebrated homosexuality. We know how that story ends alright