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Heterosexual CEOs have wives...
Um. Women can be CEOs too.
My point was: heterosexuals can be married. They don't need to make statements, they can just bring their husband/wife to the company party.
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#353This is the culture I was brought up in. This kind of article is the reason I grew up believing there was nothing wrong with homosexuality. Since every single other comment here is inevitably going to be some kind of applause and praise, let me briefly offer the perspective of some who have been silenced on HN and in the general tech world. We know that homosexuality is a destructive force in society. While we love T…
Yes, you will possibly be downvoted, but not because your opinion dissents with the majority. There are plenty of dissenting opinions on HN who get upvoted to the top, as long as they're well argued and informed. You will be downvoted because your comment has no substance to it. The only claim you make is "we know that homosexuality is a destructive force in society", and it isn't backed up by any meaningful conversa…
The self-evident fact that homosexuality is contrary to nature should be sufficient substance.
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Everyone except me, apparently :-)
You subscription to Out magazine must have lapsed. He was their #1 most powerful gay man or woman in American last year: http://www.out.com/out-exclusives/power-50/2013/04/10/power-... I think it was one of those things where everyone knew it, but no one talked about it because it just wasn't that big a deal.
OK, thanks for posting this, because I thought I was going crazy for a second. My thought was, "Yeah what? Of course he is gay. Everyone knows that? He might be the first gay CEO of a trillion-dollar valuated company!"
At least I know I'm not crazy now and that it was in magazines and such at least a year ago.
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I have a hard time thinking of anyone as Christian if they ignore the basic tenants of what the Bible says. Homosexuality is very clearly spelled out as wrong. So are plenty of other things of course and the Bible doesn't specify homosexual behavior as any more or less wrong than any other sinful act. Christians shouldn't be treating homosexuals any different than anyone else, but that includes letting people know th…
> I have a hard time thinking of anyone as Christian if they ignore the basic tenants of what the Bible says. You can be an adulterer and a Christian. You can commit any sin imaginable and still consider yourself a Christian. Homosexuality is no different.
There is a difference though between commiting a sin then admitting you were wrong and actively promoting a lifestyle that espouses sin. I'd have the same problem with an adulterer who didn't think that their adultery was wrong. In one case, someone messed up - in the other someone is actually ignoring the bible entirely.
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#356Tim Cook is literally one of the worst CEOs Apple could possibly have. That's really cute that he came out and did his little PR stunt. Who fucking cares, he never actually does any work for the company. >Hey Tim, wanna back-port the bash patch to older Macs? >I gotta go on CNN and parade my sexuality around, I'll get back to you on that :^) The fucking loser sits on excel min/maxing bullshit numbers for shit that re…
Faggot.
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Who are you to say what a "wrong" idea of sexuality is? The One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church teaches so.
“If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge?” –- Pope Francis
Taking words out of context is not very new. See Matthew 4:1-11.
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> Being opposed to gay marriage does not imply being against homosexuals. How is that even possible? How is enforcing legal restrictions against a minority class of people not inherently discriminatory?
> How is enforcing legal restrictions against a minority class of people not inherently discriminatory? That's begging the question: you're assuming that failure to recognise a homosexual relationship is a legal restriction, which really doesn't make sense. I can declare myself King of England, no-one in America will recognise me as such, but that doesn't impose any legal restriction on me. There's the side issue of…
I actually agree with your proposal to get the state out of recognizing marriage (from what I suspect is a diametrically opposed political position). But you need to acknowledge that this would mean massive changes in many, many aspects of government policy. In the United States, state recognition of marriage is built into our tax structure, immigration policy, all aspects of social security, the regulation of trusts and estates, health care...the list is pretty much endless. Unless and until we change all of those policies, the failure to recognize same-sex marriages is discriminatory.
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#359This is the culture I was brought up in. This kind of article is the reason I grew up believing there was nothing wrong with homosexuality. Since every single other comment here is inevitably going to be some kind of applause and praise, let me briefly offer the perspective of some who have been silenced on HN and in the general tech world. We know that homosexuality is a destructive force in society. While we love T…
This is not informed dissent. It's delusion. "The evil one"? GTFO
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#360Tim Cook is literally one of the worst CEOs Apple could possibly have. That's really cute that he came out and did his little PR stunt. Who fucking cares, he never actually does any work for the company. >Hey Tim, wanna back-port the bash patch to older Macs? >I gotta go on CNN and parade my sexuality around, I'll get back to you on that :^) The fucking loser sits on excel min/maxing bullshit numbers for shit that re…
how many dudes have you fucked