Good Job Apple

October 24th, 2008, by The Angry Drunk

I’m going to join in the cho­rus of peo­ple prais­ing Apple for their stance on California’s Proposition 8. I frankly don’t give a tinker’s damn who you want to fuck; but the idea of the state keep­ing two peo­ple who love each other from cer­ti­fy­ing that love, based on the whims of a bunch of ass­holes and their three thou­sand year old fairy tale needs to be slapped down hard. Unfortunately, Arizona has a sim­i­lar propo­si­tion on our bal­lot. How about it Steve, wanna shoot a few grand our way?

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  • http://tewha.net Steven Fisher

    As a Christian myself, please don’t blame this on all of us: There’s actu­ally pre­cious lit­tle to back Proposition 8 on and quite a bit to argue against it.

    I won’t go into details, because you likely couldn’t give a shit. :)

  • http://tewha.net Steven Fisher

    As a Christian myself, please don’t blame this on all of us: There’s actu­ally pre­cious lit­tle to back Proposition 8 on and quite a bit to argue against it.

    I won’t go into details, because you likely couldn’t give a shit. :)

  • http://www.theangrydrunk.com The Angry Drunk

    @Steven Fisher: I’m not blam­ing Christianity per se but you have to admit, no one ever comes up with an argu­ment against same sex mar­riage that isn’t based in reli­gion in some way.

    Interesting aside though. I won­der how many cor­po­ra­tions want things like Prop 8 to go through, not because of any reli­gious sen­ti­ment, but because it would keep them from hav­ing to extend mar­i­tal ben­e­fits to a whole class of people?

    What I want to see is a really fun­da­men­tal­ist group try to get a mea­sure on the bal­lot ban­ning the con­sump­tion of shell­fish. Because, seri­ously, I hate shrimp.

  • http://www.theangrydrunk.com The Angry Drunk

    @Steven Fisher: I’m not blam­ing Christianity per se but you have to admit, no one ever comes up with an argu­ment against same sex mar­riage that isn’t based in reli­gion in some way.

    Interesting aside though. I won­der how many cor­po­ra­tions want things like Prop 8 to go through, not because of any reli­gious sen­ti­ment, but because it would keep them from hav­ing to extend mar­i­tal ben­e­fits to a whole class of people?

    What I want to see is a really fun­da­men­tal­ist group try to get a mea­sure on the bal­lot ban­ning the con­sump­tion of shell­fish. Because, seri­ously, I hate shrimp.

  • http://tewha.net Steven Fisher

    Oh, I’ll read­ily admit that! I don’t feel it’s sup­ported, but that doesn’t stop the self-righteous from doing it. As a rule of thumb, if a Christian is being an ass­hole he’s doing Christianity wrong. And I’ll also read­ily admit that most of what we see is wrong, though whether it’s a major­ity or just a vocal minor­ity I don’t think we have any way of know­ing. And not that it mat­ters much, but just to clear things up: I’m not offended in the slightest.

    The cor­po­rate idea is inter­est­ing. I can see it mak­ing sense to a com­pany to try that based on bal­ance sheets. On the other hand, I doubt fund­ing it would be worth it. It’s prob­a­bly not going to make much of a dif­fer­ence to the result: Nobody’s going to change their minds, what­ever they’ve already decided.

    Also: Good shrimp are fine, but once you hit one bad shrimp in a meal you can never look at them the same way. I avoid all shrimp-based food now. My wife, who is aller­gic to shrimp that she breaks out in a rash, still likes them. Same thing with Glosette Peanuts. Just see­ing them makes me want to retch now.

  • http://tewha.net Steven Fisher

    Oh, I’ll read­ily admit that! I don’t feel it’s sup­ported, but that doesn’t stop the self-righteous from doing it. As a rule of thumb, if a Christian is being an ass­hole he’s doing Christianity wrong. And I’ll also read­ily admit that most of what we see is wrong, though whether it’s a major­ity or just a vocal minor­ity I don’t think we have any way of know­ing. And not that it mat­ters much, but just to clear things up: I’m not offended in the slightest.

    The cor­po­rate idea is inter­est­ing. I can see it mak­ing sense to a com­pany to try that based on bal­ance sheets. On the other hand, I doubt fund­ing it would be worth it. It’s prob­a­bly not going to make much of a dif­fer­ence to the result: Nobody’s going to change their minds, what­ever they’ve already decided.

    Also: Good shrimp are fine, but once you hit one bad shrimp in a meal you can never look at them the same way. I avoid all shrimp-based food now. My wife, who is aller­gic to shrimp that she breaks out in a rash, still likes them. Same thing with Glosette Peanuts. Just see­ing them makes me want to retch now.