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Title: Apple to Arizona: Anti-gay bill puts Mesa sapphire plant at risk Post by: HCK on February 26, 2014, 02:00:04 pm Apple to Arizona: Anti-gay bill puts Mesa sapphire plant at risk
Could Apple do business in a state that sanctions discrimination against gays? <p>FORTUNE -- Apple (AAPL) has confirmed that it urged Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer over the weekend to veto a bill that would allow business owners with strongly held religious beliefs to deny service to gays and lesbians.</p> <p>Since the Arizona statehouse passed the measure last Thursday, Gov. Brewer has faced growing pressure to kill the bill that opponents characterize as "state-sanctioned discrimination."</p> <p>Three state senators MORE (http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2014/02/25/apple-arizona-gay-discrimination/)<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tech.fortune.cnn.com&blog=8466345&post=134824&subd=fortunebrainstormtech&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" /><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/fortuneapple20/~4/u1Z7anuhIX0" height="1" width="1"/> Source: Apple to Arizona: Anti-gay bill puts Mesa sapphire plant at risk (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/fortuneapple20/~3/u1Z7anuhIX0/http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2014/02/25/apple-arizona-gay-discrimination/#commentshttp://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2014/02/25/apple-arizona-gay-discrimination/feed/atom/) |