In a recent Washington Post editorial, Apple CEO Tim Cook
claimed Indiana's recent RFRA law says
"...individuals can cite their personal religious beliefs to refuse service to a customer or resist a state nondiscrimination law..."
False. A lie. But a high profile lie then used to inflict painful and costly boycotts on Indiana individuals and businesses.
Make no mistake, Rod Dreher is shaking the collection tambourine to high Heaven outside the seal tent, trying make a fast buck on Indiana's troubles
here,
here,
here, and
here, troubles massively compounded and accelerated by Tim Cook's high profile lies.
And maybe Dreher is also suffering along with Indiana by working
up to seven hours a day blogging, the brutal Victorian labor burden that finally did in his role model, Andrew Sullivan.
Except, of course, when that mono and other stress Dante didn't save him from kicks back in - see, Dante saved him from that
other mono and stress, not this
current mono and stress - and all he can manage is maybe a couple hours a day between naps and delicious meals.
Even so, though, if Dreher has any genuine interest in anybody's religious freedom, why is Dreher still buying and using lying homosexual Tim Cook's expensive Apple products, products whose purchase drove Apple not long ago to replace AT&T on the Dow and will shortly make it the first trillion dollar company in history?
Dreher's laptop. His wife's laptop. Their kids' laptops. Their Apple TV streaming service. Their iPhones. Their kids' iPhones. Their Apple Store service. Any of it. All of it.
Because the religious freedom problems of Indiana and everyone else are for
them to suffer and for Dreher to make money from without the slightest inconvenience to his own swinish material or moral sloth.
It will not surprise readers here to learn that I (do
not impute this to other writers here) find the following quote a useful, if not strictly Christian parable:
Malone: You wanna know how to get Capone? They pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue.
When Tim Cook pulls a knife, though, does Dreher even just pull an equivalent knife and inconvenience himself by boycotting Cook's pricy products and depriving Cook of their revenue? Nope.
Does he pull a gun? Heavens, nope.
Does he pull out a recipe and whip up a fabulous chocolate mousse cheesecake for Cook? Nopey-nope.
Well, what, then,
does he pull?
Well...
here's a hint.
Because surely at the bottom of all this inconvenience and loss Indiana and others must suffer from Tim Cook for Dreher's religious freedom there will be
another, heart-rending book to be written. About Rod Dreher's suffering.
[Update: I edited this a tad. -Pauli]
