Russian Steve Jobs Monument Taken Down After Tim Cook Comes Out as Gay by _Josh Feldman_ (http://www.mediaite.com/author/josh-feldman/) | 7:25 pm, November 3rd, 2014 (http://www.mediaite.com/online/russian-steve-jobs-monument-taken-down-after-tim-cook-comes-out-as-gay/#disqus_thread) A Russian monument to Steve Jobs was taken down just days after Apple CEO Tim Cook _came out as a gay man_ (http://www.mediaite.com/online/apple-ceo-tim-cook-comes-out-in-bloomberg-im-proud-to-be-gay/) . And it’s likely the two are related, but not 100 percent certain. The monument was set up by the Russian company ZEFS outside a St. Petersburg college, and a statement attributed to them _run by several Russian news outlets_ (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/11/03/russian-monument-to-steve-jobs-taken-down-after-apple-ceo-cook-says-he-is-gay/) reads, “After Apple CEO Tim Cook publicly called for sodomy, the monument was dismantled pursuant to Russian federal law on the protection of children from information that promotes the denial of traditional family values.” And while this could very well be the case, given how homosexuals are treated under Russian law, the news outlet Russia Today _highlights a statement made to another news outlet_ (http://rt.com/news/201855-steve-jobs-memorial-gay/) in which the college says they got a letter about the statue’s removal days before Cook came out. Though keep in mind, there was one Russian lawmaker who _said very prominently that_ (http://www.mediaite.com/online/russian-lawmaker-afraid-of-tim-cooks-gay-ebola-aids-ban-him-for-life/) because Cook is gay, he could bring Ebola or AIDS to Russia so they should “ban him for life.”
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