Record 259 corporations honored for ‘gay’ support
| The newly released Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s Corporate Equality Index, which ranks hundreds of businesses on their “treatment” of employees who have chosen homosexual, lesbian, bisexual and transgender lifestyles, awards a record 259 corporations perfect scores, including newcomers Campbell’s Soup and Target.
The total in the 2009 report is up one-third from the 195 corporations so honored in 2008, according to the Human Rights Campaign, which explained that now an estimated nine million workers “are protected from employment discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity or expression because of their employers’ policies on diversity & inclusion, training, health care, and domestic partnership benefits.” The report notes that when the evaluation was begun in 2002, there were 13 corporations with such perfect scores – a total of 100 out of 100 possible – and that rose to 26 in 2003, 56 in 2004, 101 in 2005, 138 in 2006 and 195 in 2008. |
If I were into boycotting, I would have to quit doing business with some outfits:
- US Airways
- Dell
- Target
- Campbell Soups
- Visa
- American Express
- Bank of America
- Best Buy
- Chevron
- Citigroup
- Coca-Cola
- Eastman Kodak
- eBay
- Intel
- JC Penney
- KeyCorp
- Levi Strauss
- Macy
- MasterCard
- Microsoft
- PepsiCo
- Sears
- UPS
- Yahoo!
Wow!
Time to join the Amish or the Hutterites.
Or move to the Amazon.
Or forget the whole notion of boycotting.
Yeah. I keep telling my wife that if she wants to boycott every company that does something she doesn’t like, she’ll have to start producing her own of everything she wants.
Hopefully Mennonite Church USA won’t end up being one of the outfits you ‘should’ be boycotting. There is a renewed push for church acceptance of the homosexual lifestyle — and it has a surprising amount of support: http://www.openlettertomcusa.org/
Thus far MCUSA has stood firm with the marriage definition of “1 man & 1 woman”, but this new campaign seems to really be attracting the younger generation. It has me worried. The day Zion accepts the GLBT agenda is the day I start looking for a new congregation… perhaps down the hill ways.