Apple CEO Says He Is Proud to Be Gay

CEO Tim Cook

In a column last week, Apple CEO Tim Cook came out publicly as a homosexual. He said, "While I have never denied my sexuality, I haven't publicly acknowledged it either, until now. So let me be clear: I'm proud to be gay, and I consider being gay among the greatest gifts God has given me" ("Tim Cook Speaks Up," Bloomberg Businessweek, Oct. 30, 2014). Cook mentioned Martin Luther King, Jr., and spoke of homosexual rights as a social-justice issue in the same league as equal rights for blacks. "When I arrive in my office each morning, I'm greeted by framed photos of Dr. King and Robert F. Kennedy. I don't pretend that writing this puts me in their league. All it does is allow me to look at those pictures and know that I'm doing my part, however small, to help others. We pave the sunlit path toward justice together, brick by brick. This is my brick." We pray that Mr. Cook will be enlightened to see that his "sunlit path" is actually the path of darkness, that he will repent and trust Jesus Christ as his Lord and Saviour and be converted as some in the Roman city of Corinth were converted 2,000 years ago. "Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God" (1 Corinthians 6:9-11).

(Friday Church News Notes, November 7, 2014, www.wayoflife.org, [email protected], 866-295-4143)

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