Tim Cook has been supporting for several years the adoption of legislation to ensure equality in the workplace for homosexuals, lesbians or bisexuals, and based on his efforts the state of Alabama will vote for the adoption of such a law.
Patricia Todd is a representative of the Alabama state legislature and recently he announced the intention chooses Tim Cook's name to identify the new law that is to be voted by the state legislative body. Although initially Apple's PR team announced that Tim Cook could refuse to have a law named after him, a few days later Todd was informed that the current CEO of Apple would be flattered to offer his name for the law.
The Tim Cook law will prevent the government from discriminating in hiring people based on sexual orientation, and to increase the chances of its adoption, Todd hopes that Tim Cook will come to support it in the Alabama state legislature. Tim Cook was born and raised in the state of Alabama, he recently became part of the state's Academy of Honor, a few days away from distinction announcing to the whole world that he is gay through an article published in a famous American publication.
Alabama is one of the American states where there is extremely little tolerance vis-à-vis people with sexual orientations different from those accepted socially, so such a law will be extremely controversial and probably difficult to adopt.
