Record 259 corporations honored for ‘gay’ support
Cambell’s Soup
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.
The 2009 index “shows that corporate America understands that a diverse workforce is critical to remaining successful and competitive,” Joe Solmonese, the foundation chief, said in a prepared statement posted on the organization’s website. “In the absence of federal law that prohibits workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity or expression, it is up to employers to take the lead and implement policies that ensure all their employees are protected.”
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> Even if so inclined, it is not very practical to boycott or exert financial pressures on all these companies, though targeting one or two might be effective.
> Should Christians and other concerned people boycott these companies for not discriminating on the basis of sexual preferences or for such companies granting homosexuals, transgendered people or others equal financial benefits? No, I think fairness and equal treatment for all citizens demands these companies offer the same employment opportunities and benefits to all qualified applicants.
> However, many of these companies are doing much more than treating homosexuals, etcetera equally with heterosexual employees, they are using the money supplied by their customers to promote the homosexual agenda, which a majority of Americans believe involves a perverse lifestyle choice and it offends their personal religious beliefs. So, those companies that do support the homosexual agenda are fair targets for those objecting, for economic boycotts. Such economic protests are designed to discourage the use of their money to support the homosexual agenda, and it seems to me is a fair and American way of expressing their outrage.
If these companies believe the homosexual agenda is that important, they should be willing to suffer financial losses to defend their actions. If they fold to economic pressure, then perhaps we might reasonable conclude that their support now is to increase profits and their belief in the homosexual aganda is a sham.
