Well done Apple.
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- squidy
Today apple did this:
No on Prop 8
October 24, 2008
Apple is publicly opposing Proposition 8 and making a donation of $100,000 to the No on 8 campaign. Apple was among the first California companies to offer equal rights and benefits to our employees’ same-sex partners, and we strongly believe that a person’s fundamental rights — including the right to marry — should not be affected by their sexual orientation. Apple views this as a civil rights issue, rather than just a political issue, and is therefore speaking out publicly against Proposition 8.
For a major corporation apple has continuly gone out of their way to do what they think is write. Starting with their more eco friendly packaging to the more eco minded products and now this. We need more major corporations doing the right thing like this. Well done Apple.
- autoflavour0
people should have the right to do what they want. Consenting ADULTS that is.
Gay, straight, Bi.. what ever.
- dmolanphy0
I'm happy to be the unpopular voice on this and completely disagree with this! Apple (and Google) have no business in this.
- care to digress?bolus
- digress? I assume you mean explain. Yes, I'm one of the (apparently) few people left who believe marriage is STILL a man/woman ONLY institution. Big $ has no business in these issues just like gov. has no business in these issues.
dmolanphy - YOU'VE BEEN CENSORED BY NOTES!Point5
- hahahahaha point5Jnr_Madison
- lolLillebo
- planned win was plannedgentleman
- You knew where that bullshit was going anyway.CyBrain
- Meeklo0
- yes, far from eco-friendly.Point5
- you are absolutely rightcreez
- unless the new stuff is more eco-friendly and recyclable?ribit
- pc's only last 3 months. then you have to buy a new one. thats more wasteful. lol.akrokdesign
- nice point, meeklo. its true.akrokdesign
- designbot0
My only fear is that everyone's health care will go up in cost. Fact is gay couples are more expensive to insure. I wouldn't mind at all, I just don't want to be paying for it.
- care to provide some evidence ?bolus
- WOW, how about my wife and I? We are in the hospital all the time from our active outdoor lifestyle. I would think a gay couple that sat at home watching movies would a bit cheaper than us.squidy
- if that is your only concern you are fine, that doesn't sound very possibleMeeklo
- http://74.125.95.104…designbot
- "ndian Journal of Sexually Transmitted Diseases and AIDS" you are basing your argument on that article?! cmonlvl_13
- well just look up the statistics on it. I can't make a direct link to rise in health costs...but figures like 75% of all AIDS cases are among gays...the direct relation seems obvious enough.designbot
- among gays....the direction relation seems pretty obvious.designbot
- Wow. DB u r a complete moron.Justin
- india & the developed world are still QUITE differentjaylarson
- sublocked0
- hahahaha
I crack up every time I see that commercialMeeklo - am i the only one that thinks the mayor looks like american psycho patrick bateman?sublocked
- haha. i was thinking the same thing.Gucci
- he does!Meeklo
- he should have said he was fabulousLlyod
- funny watching that guy shitcan his political careerLlyod
- hahahaha
- Jnr_Madison0
Llyod, you are an apple fag hag now.
- Meeklo0
I find it ironic that the same people that are into religion, forget their history and repeat the same mistakes that happened in the 1500s.
When the catholic church was persecuting and burning alive anyone that was trying to translate the original transcripts in hebrew and greek to english in order to bring it to the masses.
Every religion born from the catholic was persecuted, prohibited of any kind of rights to believe something different, writers, printers, smugglers and readers of english transcripts of the bible were declared heretics by the church.
Aren't we all supposed to be treated equal according to religion?
I don't get it.- religion is all about money, power and lies unfortunately.sea_sea
- designbot0
@ Meeklo,
So let's say that I am a pastor, and a gay couple comes to me and wants to get married...I refuse to marry them because it stands in direct contradiction to my entire belief system. There are plenty of other pastors out there that will gladly marry this couple but they insist that I do it.....then they try and sue me for not being "treated equally" you see where this can all go?- This won't happen.Mimio
- It's already happened several time over my friend:
http://www.canadianc…designbot - http://www.telegraph…designbot
- a proposition put in place to avoid this (which shows it's a real issue)
http://www.topix.com…designbot - People that start sentences with 'My friend..' should not have these benefits.Anders
- sublocked0
^^ designbot i'm with you.
our legal system is a slippery slope and it does open up people to attack based on their beliefs.
i don't care if people are gay but i don't want to be forced to agree with their choices and beliefs.
- formed0
I don't get it, honestly. People are equal, no? If they are all equal, then they all deserve the exact same rights - no personal bias.
It'll be legal everywhere, eventually, simply because the only obstacle is personal beliefs, not logic, which are subject to change over time.
"...i don't want to be forced to agree with their choices and beliefs."
Aren't you forcing others to agree with your beliefs?
Everything seems like one big hypocrisy.
- well said.Point5
- formed, it is a big hypocrisy.
But this is what he believes, and we can only agree to disagreeMeeklo - he, like gay people is entitled to think the way he chooses to, and if we alienate him, then the circle never endsMeeklo
- Right, but he's judging those based on their life, not beliefs.formed
- I don't care too much, honestly. I don't think it'll be long before it is legal everywhere.formed
- Belief's change, religious views change, everything changes and I believe,formed
- in the long run, it'll be in a positive direction.formed
- I really hate the limit on these little things!!formed
- Meeklo0
Designbot.
Funny you link to a mormon article.
Mormons once thought that people with dark skin, had the mark of the devil and could never enter paradise.
http://www.i4m.com/think/comment…That being said, once equal rights were granted to black people, the mormon church decided: hey that was a mistake, lets erase that part of our "belief system" and give them the same rights we enjoy.
It will take time, but I guarantee you that 20 year from now, our kids will be reading about this "wrong and racist" stage our era, the same way we think about segregation, slavery and racism in previous decades.
- Josev0
I'm always amazed, with all that's going on in the world today, that people find the time to be worried about gay people getting married. How are they touched by this compared to the many other problems that effect them on a daily basis.
- Llyod0
Microsoft did this a couple years ago. They give benefits to buttbuddies.
- Fungal_Bum0
The amount of ignorance and intolerance being displayed on this site lately makes me want to fucking puke!
- is not this site friend, welcome to planet earth.Meeklo
- This is, however, is the only place I don't have an ignore feature.Fungal_Bum
- I agree with you, and I have no idea when it started happening or how it's happening. I just know I'm unsettled more.Jaline
- Says a guy named Fungal Bum.tommyo
- well, here's a bag for you then..janne76
- Meeklo0
I understand religious parties were raised to think a very strange sense of "moral values", but history teaches us that, while they are always resistant of change, eventually the church finds a way to adapt.
If this was not the case, they would probably be burning gay people alive while strapped to a wooden pole.
Everything changes, people change, times change, the only thing that should matter is that one way or another, we are all brothers and we should ALL be equal. period.
Ironically that's one of the few things I learned from religion, why are they not practicing this? it escapes me.