US Corporate War on Religion

Top U.S. companies 'at war with religious people', Apple, Frito-Lay, Procter & Gamble among many on battlefield 

 

In the 1960s, it was all about skin color. Fifty years later, it’s all about “alternative sexual lifestyles.”

“What’s basically happened is that those who have conservative moral values and biblical values, they have become the new Ku Klux Klan,” said Michael Brown, an author and talk-radio host.

“What’s happened is that gay activism is the new civil-rights movement. This is the new kid on the block that everyone’s standing with.”

Among those standing with the “gay” rights movement are numerous businesses. In the 2015 Corporate Equality Index, compiled by the pro-homosexual Human Rights Campaign, a record 366 major businesses earned a perfect score of 100 percent, indicating HRC completely approves of their policies, practices and benefits for LGBT employees.

In the first CEI in 2002, only 13 businesses earned a 100 percent score. And HRC claims the criteria have become more stringent over the years.

Among the companies that earned a perfect 2015 CEI score were Chevron, Apple, General Motors, General Electric, Ford, AT&T, Hewlett-Packard, UnitedHealth Group and JP Morgan Chase.

HRC recognizes businesses that achieve a 100 percent rating as “Best Places to Work for LGBT Equality” and welcomes companies to tout that distinction in their marketing efforts.

But for corporate America, it’s not just about appealing to LGBT employees; many are trying to appeal to LGBT customers, as well.

Frito-Lay launched a line of rainbow-colored Doritos last week, with proceeds going to support “It Gets Better,” a nonprofit founded by the radical homosexual activist Dan Savage. As of Tuesday, Doritos Rainbows had already sold out.

At the same time, GOP presidential candidate Gov. Mike Huckabee was challenging the Frito-Lay board of directors to watch Dan Savage in action and decide whether his lewd and offensive comments fit their corporate image.

Paul Kengor, a college professor and author of “Takedown: From Communists to Progressives, How the Left Has Sabotaged Family and Marriage,” believes Frito-Lay fears no backlash from conservative Christians. Instead, the company is afraid of offending gay activists.

 

See “The Big List of ‘gayest’ companies in America,” where support for homosexual, bisexual and transgender causes is a priority.

 

“From a purely marketing standpoint, one would think that corporate America might be concerned about offending traditional Christians,” Kengor said. “But I don’t think that’s so. Christians aren’t relentless and brutal like the liberal forces of ‘tolerance’ and ‘diversity’ who boycott, picket, protest, demonize, dehumanize, fine and even incarcerate those who dare to disagree with their new definitions of marriage, family and sexuality. So corporations are happy to outrage Christians. They won’t dare outrage the forces of ‘tolerance’ and ‘diversity.’”

Brown, a WND columnist and author of “Outlasting the Gay Revolution,” said companies now see an advantage in becoming more LGBT-friendly.

“This is now the big thing for big business,” he explained. “This is good business: Let’s recognize the giftedness of gays and lesbians, let’s promote them to the highest level, and let us rid ourselves of those that would oppose with their old, bigoted mindsets.

“I have been overseas, and in other countries they’ve told me the pressure they are under. I was in Singapore, and business leaders told me they are under pressure from the big companies, the Googles, the Microsofts: ‘If you want to do business with us, then you are going to have to change your policy toward gays and lesbians.’”

Tide recently jumped into the “gay marriage” debate with a new TV commercial featuring a “gay” couple on their way to a church for their wedding. A woman stops them at the church steps and exclaims: “How offensive! I won’t let you blemish the sanctity of marriage.”

She then whips out a Tide to Go pen and removes a stain from the shirt of one of the men before allowing the couple to proceed.

Tide’s parent company, Procter & Gamble, has publicly promoted LGBT rights on its Twitter account.

When commercial director Mark Nickelsburg posted the ad to his Facebook page, he referenced embattled Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis, writing: “First a clerk in Kentucky, and now a church lady in Los Angeles! This same sex couple faces yet another obstacle on the way to marriage equality in this spec commercial I directed.”

Brown does not see the “gay” rights movement as a simple plea for tolerance. He pointed to Apple CEO Tim Cook, who announced last October that he is “gay.” In his coming-out essay, Cook wrote he was “proud to be gay” and expressed hope that his announcement would “help someone struggling to come to terms with who he or she is, or bring comfort to anyone who feels alone.”

But the following March, Cook went a step further by criticizing the religious freedom laws under consideration at the time in Arkansas and Indiana. He called the laws “very dangerous.”

“So the CEO of Apple, Tim Cook, now he’s not just out and proud, he is at war with religious people,” Brown said. “We must recognize what’s happening. This is not a matter of ‘live and let live;’ this is a matter of the gay revolution pushing out all opposing views, and big business is helping lead the way.”

Source:http://www.wnd.com/2015/09/top-u-s-companies-at-war-with-religious-people/
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“The Big List of ‘gayest’ companies in America,” by Joe Kovacs, 11/13/12 Largest firms in U.S. pushing LGBT agenda

Is UPS the most “gay”-friendly company in America? Some may be wondering after shipping giant United Parcel Service said it will no longer give money to the Boy Scouts of America as long as the group discriminates against homosexuals.  UPS is the second major corporation in recent days to yank funding from the scouts, following in the footsteps of computer chip maker Intel.

According to its tax return, the UPS Foundation donated more than $85,000 to the Boy Scouts last year. “We promote an environment of diversity and inclusion,” UPS spokeswoman Kristen Petrella told the Associated Press Monday. “UPS is a company that does the right things for the right reasons.”

The Boy Scouts reiterated this year it was holding onto its policy of excluding openly homosexual youth and adults from being members and leaders.

But UPS is just one of many companies that have policies favoring homosexuals. The pro-homosexual Human Rights Campaign has published its 2012 Corporate Equality Index.

The HRC ranks U.S. companies according to their support and non-support for “gay,” lesbian, bisexual and transgender causes. The scale is from zero to 100, with those closest to zero being firms that are not supportive of homosexual policies, and those nearest 100 being very “gay”-friendly.

The criteria include anti-discrimination protections, domestic partner benefits, diversity training and transgender-inclusive benefits.

In the first year of the CEI a decade ago, 13 businesses achieved a top score of 100 percent. Now, 190 businesses achieved a top rating of 100 percent.

While there are many additional companies promoting the LGBT agenda, here is the latest list of companies scoring a perfect 100 percent on the index:

“The Big List of ‘gayest’ companies in America,”

3M
A.T. Kearney Inc.
AAA Northern California
Abercrombie & Fitch
Accenture Ltd.
Aetna
Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld
Alcatel-Lucent
Alcoa
Alston & Bird
American Express
Ameriprise Financial
AMR Corp. (American Airlines)
Aon Corp.
Apple Inc.
AT&T
Automatic Data Processing
Avon Products Inc.
Bain & Co. Inc.
Baker & McKenzie
Bank of America Corp.
Bank of New York Mellon Corp.
Barclays Capital
Barnes & Noble Inc.
Best Buy
Bingham McCutchen
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota
BMO Bankcorp
Booz Allen Hamilton
Boston Consulting Group
Bristol-Myers Squibb
Brown Rudnick
Brown-Forman Corp.
Bryan Cave
Caesars Entertainment Corp.
Campbell Soup Co.
Capital One Financial Corp.
Cardinal Health Inc.
Cargill Inc.
Carlton Fields PA
Chapman and Cutler
Charles Schwab Corp.
Chevron Corp
Choate, Hall & Stewart
Chobani
Choice Hotels International Inc.
Chrysler
Chubb Corp.
Cisco Systems
Citigroup Inc.
Clifford Chance US
Clorox Co.
Coca-Cola Co.
Corning Inc.
Covington & Burling
Credit Suisse USA Inc.
Crowell & Moring
Cummins Inc.
Debevoise & Plimpton
Delhaize America Inc.
Dell Inc.
Deloitte
Deutsche Bank
Dewey & LeBoeuf
Diageo North America
DLA Piper
Dorsey & Whitney
Dow Chemical Co.
E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Co. (DuPont)
Eastman Kodak Co.
eBay Inc.
Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge
Eli Lilly & Co.
EMC Corp.
Ernst & Young
Exelon Corp.
Faegre & Benson
Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. (Freddie Mac)
Fenwick & West
Ford Motor Co.
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson
Gap Inc.
Genentech Inc.
General Mills Inc.
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher
GlaxoSmithKline
Goldman Sachs Group Inc.
Google Inc.
Group Health Cooperative
Herman Miller Inc.
Hewlett-Packard Co.
Hinshaw & Culbertson
Hogan Lovells US
Hyatt Hotels Corp.
ING North America Insurance Corp.
International Business Machines Corp. (IBM)
Intuit Inc.
Jenner & Block
Johnson & Johnson
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
K&L Gates
Kellogg Co.
Kimpton Hotel & Restaurant Group Inc.
Kirkland & Ellis
KPMG
Kraft Foods
Levi Strauss & Co.
Limited Brands Inc.
Littler Mendelson PC
Lockheed Martin Corp.
Marsh & McLennan Companies Inc.
McDermott Will & Emery
McKinsey & Co. Inc.
Medtronic Inc.
MetLife Inc.
Microsoft Corp.
MillerCoors
Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams
Morgan Lewis & Bockius
Morgan Stanley
Morrison & Foerster
Nationwide
Navigant Consulting Inc.
Nike Inc.
Nixon Peabody
Nordstrom Inc.
Northern Trust Corp.
Office Depot Inc.
Oracle Corp.
Orbitz Worldwide Inc.
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe
Owens Corning
Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler
Paul Hastings
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison
Perkins Coie
Pfizer Inc.
PG&E Corp.
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Prudential Financial Inc.
Raytheon Co.
Replacements Ltd.
Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi
Ropes & Gray
Schiff Hardin
Sears Holdings Corp.
Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold
Sempra Energy
Seyfarth Shaw LLP
Shearman & Sterling LLP
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP
Sidley Austin LLP
Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett LLP
Sodexo Inc.
Southern California Edison Co.
Sprint Nextel Corp.
Squire, Sanders & Dempsey LLP
Staples Inc.
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide
Sun Life Financial Inc. (U.S.)
Supervalu Inc.
Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP
Symantec Corp.
TD Bank
Teachers Insurance & Annuity Association – College Retirement Equities Fund
Tech Data Corp.
Thompson Coburn LLP
Time Warner Inc.
TJX Companies Inc.
Toyota Financial Services Corp.
Toyota Motor Sales USA Inc.
Troutman Sanders LLP
U.S. Bancorp
UBS AG
Unilever
United Continental Holdings Inc.
United Parcel Service Inc. (UPS)
United Technologies Corp.
UnitedHealth Group Inc.
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz LLP
Walt Disney Co.
Wells Fargo & Co.
Whirlpool Corp.
White & Case LLP
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr LLP
Winston & Strawn LLP
Xerox Corp.
Yahoo! Inc.

Some of WND’s previous coverage:

American companies that don’t promote ‘gayness’

Companies get even ‘gayer’ as U.S. economy plummets

Corporate America snuggles up to ‘gays’

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