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Carly Fiorina is calling out Apple CEO Tim Cook as a hypocrite for criticizing Indiana’s new Religious Freedom Restoration Act while his company does business in multiple countries that discriminate.
“When Tim Cook is upset about all the places that he does business because of the way they treat gays and women, he needs to withdraw from 90% of the markets that he’s in, including China and Saudi Arabia,” she said. “But I don’t hear him being upset about that.”
Cook, who is gay, wrote an op-ed article earlier this week warning that laws like the ones being set up in Indiana, and later Arkansas, were part of a “dangerous” new wave of legislation targeting gays and lesbians for discrimination. Though other businesses threatened to withdraw from Indiana, Cook did not call for a boycott.
“These bills rationalize injustice by pretending to defend something many of us hold dear,” Cook wrote. “They go against the very principles our nation was founded on, and they have the potential to undo decades of progress toward greater equality.”
But Fiorina told The Journal there was “nothing objectionable” about the Indiana law, though it was amended by lawmakers on Thursday to forbid discrimination based on sexual orientation. Supporters of these types of laws say they are needed to protect religious businesses owners from having to violate their faith.
“I think this is a ginned-up controversy by people who play identity politics that has divided the nation in a way that is really unhelpful,” Fiorina said.
Agencies/Canadajournal
