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Apple CEO Tim Cook Publicly Comes Out as Gay in Letter Declaring Support for Equality
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Doubt this will change your opinion or mind, but you should know I'm gay and I didn't choose it. When puberty came, my attraction was to the same-sex, not opposite. Plain and simple, nature and nothing I did to "be this way."
If you want to persecute a group of people for how they were born, that's on you. Yes one can "choose" not "act on same-sex" impulses, but that's the same as asking you to never touch the opposite-sex or experience that part of being a human.
Yet you believe stuff is true because it's in the bible.
Wikipedia is more trustworthy than the bible.
Don't mind that troll. She's just pissy that others are happy
At least we can check who last edited Wikipedia. Who knows how many people had a hand in crafting what is known today as the "bible?" Nevermind the fact that it has been translated and then translated from a translation so many times that there's NO way it resembles the original writings.
Interesting, but no.
Homosexuality is found in other species. Do you think they are choosing to be gay?
You must think squirrels are brilliant.
Gay people (not people who choose to be sexually experimental or what have you) are just wired that way.
The Bible does not specifically (as you say it is the source of your morality) forbid homosexuals from being gay. Or having relationships. Or sex.
It does forbid heterosexuals from having sex with same sex partners. So, no experimentation for you.
There are some opinions I will never respect. E.g. iPad Air's. It always amazes me that people have to involve themselves in another person's life, even when it's quite frankly none of their business, and doesn't affect anyone at all. Unless you're one of those people who think you can "catch" the gay...
Good for you, Tim. Keep on keep in' on.
Really? Gays are lynching Christians? Physically assaulting them to the point where their friends don't recognize them? Burning crosses on their lawns? Beating them up? Burning down their homes and churches?
The gay rights movement is, indeed, very similar to the equal rights movement back then, but you've got the sides mixed up. Gays are currently going through the same process that blacks went through back then.
If by come out you mean to speak out against inequality, I agree. If you mean they should be made to feel obligated to dump all privacy, I disagree.
Being gay isn't required to support gay rights, in fact perhaps what we really need are more proud heterosexuals supporting gay rights. Because they understand that a gay win isn't a straight loss.
Think what you want, but the LGBT community will only continue to grow and gain more support.
I think you missed my joke. I'm opposed to watching regular people having sex. I don't care in what combination.
Now the adult movie stars, thats entirely different.
Let's see...you're not gay and you believe in a magic sky wizard. But you know that being gay is a psychological disorder akin to being born a psychopath???
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This saddens me. But hey, society is better now than it was 10 years ago, and 10 years before that, right? I hope all is good with you now.
So for the 53+ years he didn't come out, he wasn't proud of who he was?
That's fine if he wants to have it publicly known, but it's nobody's business otherwise.
I agree with that fully. I do oppose the almost militant gay lobbyists who insist I agree with it or embrace it.
It was already gone. Or did you miss the repeated appearances of "Tim is totally gay and needs to admit it" on the Internet. It's popped up every few months for years. Typically with detailed analysis of his life to prove it
Much of the Bible has been proven to be in line with history
Maybe if your "facts" coming from Fox News and the Creationist Musuem.
You miss my point entirely. In brief, the world has NOT changed MUCH in perceptions on social mores and values. So, yes in a tiny portion of world society its now ok to announce your sexual proclivities WITHIN TIGHT PARAMETERS. it is always dangerous to swim in personal waters publicly though.
Would you be happy if we learned a CEO was into beastility or water sports or bondage, or rough sex. Point? Apple is a corporation dependent on investors and investors are most often conservative. Thus, it can hurt or even destroy a corporation if personal values become identified in the corporate leader. Best to stay quiet and focus on the BUSINESS. Thats what the job is...not what you do to who in the bedroom.
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