Diana’s Little Corner in the Nutmeg State: Some Good News

Monday, June 22, 2015

Some Good News – American Airlines

In a world of corporate greed it is nice to see a company stand up to bigotry. (Of course they’re probably figuring that it is good for their bottom line.)

This Is How American Airlines Responded When A Passenger Got Upset Over Their New Rainbow Flag LogoBuzzFeed
By Ryan Broderick
June 15, 2015

Nathan Lorick, the director of evangelism for the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention, mentioned American Airlines in a tweet Sunday night, complaining about the airline’s frequent delays.

Flying on @ AmericanAir without a delay is highly unlikely...Always delayed.. One reason I have not flown with them nearly as much this year!
— NathanLorick (@ Nathan Lorick)

Then when AA reply with this tweet with the AA Pride logo…

@ NathanLorick We're sorry for the delay, Nathan. We see that you are on your way and we'll have you home shortly.

Mr Lorick noticed the Pride logo and asked what is with the Pride logo, AA reply was…

@ NathanLorick June is pride month across the globe and we are proud to support the LGBT community and its allies.

And Mr. Lorick replied…

@ AmericanAir Seems like a poor choice from a company that certainly has many customers who do not agree with that lifestyle! # disappointed

AA made this reply…

@ NathanLorick We're sorry for your disappointment.

Simple but elegant.

Another small step towards equality, but it is a step. Hopefully other companies will follow the companies that stood up to Illinois and other state “Religious Freedom” bills and start to realizes that there is more than the bottom line (I know that is only a dream).

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Quotes

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.

A right delayed is a right denied.Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.

Martin Luther King Jr.

No one is born hating another person… People must learn to hate and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
Nelson Mandela

We can disagree and still love each other, unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist
James Baldwin

There is a fine line between free speech and hate speech. Free speech encourages debate whereas hate speech incites violence.
Newton Lee

The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.
Albert Einstein

"The point is that there are always obstacles, whether they seem insurmountable or merely bothersome. The question is not how difficult the path, but whether in your heart, you wish to undertake the journey."
Zandru's Forge

Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.
Mahatma Gandhi

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

You've Got To Be Carefully Taught
You've got to be taught
To hate
And fear
You've got to be taught
From year
To year
Its got to
Be drummed in your dear little ear
You've got to
Be carefully
Taught
You've got to be taught
To be
Afraid
Of people
Who's eyes are oddly made
And people who's skin is a different shade

South Pacific
Songwriters: Oscar Hammerstein II / Richard Rogers

Monday, June 22, 2015

Some Good News – American Airlines

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