Alabama anti-discrimination bill to be named after Apple's Tim Cook

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

Alabama anti-discrimination bill to be named after Apple's Tim Cook

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. Thu Dec 4, 2014 1:27am EST

(Reuters) - Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook, who made headlines in October when he publicly acknowledged being gay, is lending his name to legislation to bar discrimination against state employees on the basis of their sexual orientation in his native Alabama.

Democratic state Representative Patricia Todd, Alabama's sole openly gay lawmaker, said on Wednesday that Apple was initially hesitant about having Cook's name on her bill, which faces steep odds in the Republican-dominated Legislature, but later embraced the idea.

Cook came out days after accepting an Alabama Academy of Honor award in a speech critical of the socially conservative state's lack of progress on rights for gay people.

"Nobody could have scripted this," said Todd, who plans to introduce her bill in the Alabama legislative session beginning in March. "I never in a million years would have expected it."

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/12/04/us-usa-alabama-apple-ceo-idUSKCN0JI07I20141204

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