Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple, no longer denies that he’s gay, hoping the public has become more accepting of gay people and their rights. But not in the rightwingnut South...

Wow, doesn’t he realize he’s an ‘abomination’, infested by ‘demons’?
At least that’s what my relatives(R) tell me....

Four years ago, Tim Cook became the first CEO of a major company to come out as gay. He says he's happy about that distinction — and his decision.

"I'm very proud of it," the Apple (AAPL) CEO told Christiane Amanpour on Wednesday in an exclusive interview for her program on CNN International and PBS. Being gay is "God's greatest gift to me," he said.

Cook came out on October 30, 2014. His sexual orientation had been widely rumored beforehand though he had not confirmed it publicly.