2016: THE YEAR WALMART WENT 100% “GAY”~MANY OTHER U.S. COMPANIES HAVE EARNED 100% GAY APPROVAL STATUS TOO
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
Walmart funds leftist homosexual
groups and perverse LGBTQueer “pride” parades, markets “gay” products
like “Heather Has Two Mommies”
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“Interestingly,
unlike many other corporations adopting pro-homosexual policies,
Walmart plays both sides of the social-issues “culture war.” It does
this by cultivating good relations with both homosexual activists like
[Human Rights Campaign] and Christian conservative organizations like
American Family Association (AFA).”
Folks, below is a piece I wrote earlier this month for LifeSiteNews, an excellent pro-family and pro-life website (subscribe to their e-list HERE). Walmart’s capitulation to the demands of the leftist, anti-Christian–and very pro-Democrat–Human Wrongs Rights Campaign (HRC) is the latest sign of how strategically important major corporations have become in driving the “gay-transgender” revolution.
If Walmart can go “all gay,”
any corporation can, and sadly the Bentonville, Arkansas-based retail
giant’s moral capitulation shows how complete and entrenched America’s
godless homosexual revolution has become. Nevertheless, liberal (pro-) LGBTQ “snowflakes” in post-Trump distress everywhere are acting as if the USA is on the verge of becoming like Saudi Arabia–despite Trump being the most PRO-homosexual Republican presidential nominee ever!
As it has in recent years, Walmart again sponsored New York City’s homosexual-transgender-sadomasochism (LGBTQueer) “pride” parade in 2016 (see page 35 of the “NYC Pride Guide”; also, see AFTAH’s photo-story exposé on the 2015 NYC “pride” parade sponsored by Walmart). And Walmart was among the corporate sponsors at a far-left-biased “International LGBT Leaders” conference (attended by this writer) in Washington, D.C., earlier this month, put on by the Gay and Lesbian Victory Institute.
Despite its pro-disordered-sex-and-gender “philanthropy,” Walmart received a “Nice” (not “Naughty”) rating from our friends at American Family Association for celebrating Christmas, and was praised as a “pro-religious liberty” company by AFA in 2015. That confused some AFA followers who noted Walmart’s newfound support of homosexual “marriage” post-Obergefell. Moreover, Walmart reportedly fought against a religious-freedom-protection bill in its home state of Arkansas (and in other states).
Ironically, under HRC’s horribly skewed “Corporate Equality Index“ (CEI), if Walmart were to give a direct grant to AFA (or Americans For Truth),
it would LOSE 25 points and fall off the CEI’s “100-percent” list (see
story below). Having the leftist HRC judge corporations on homosexual
and “gender” issues is about as fair as having the far-left, pro-LGBTQ Southern Poverty Law Center
serve as an arbiter of “hate.” Utterly absurd, and yet the corrupt
media honor both rankings and report them as objective “news.”
I’ll say this: you have to hand it to Walmart’s executives: cynically
playing both sides of the LGBTQ-vs.-the-natural-family “culture war”
and seemingly getting away with it. Or will they? I suppose that’s up to
pro-family Americans, who correctly understand that the
homosexual/transgender social-legal revolution is incompatible with the First Amendment and freedom of conscience. — Peter LaBarbera, AFTAH; @Peter LaBarbera
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TAKE ACTION: Call
Walmart’s Arkansas headquarters at 479-273-4000 and choose ext. 3, then
ask for the office of CEO Doug McMillon. Or call 1-800-WALMART
(925-6278). Write Walmart online HERE (click
the “Community and Giving” option). When I called the first number I
was routed to Customer Relations. Send CEO McMillon a fax directly at
479-204-0798.
Related articles:
- “Walmart Earns 100% Gay Approval Rating on Homosexual Group’s Corporate Scorecard” (LifeSiteNews; 2016)
- “Brought to You by Walmart: New York City ‘Gay Pride’ Parade Exposes Kids to Nudity, Lewdness, Vulgarity, even an S&M Float” (2015)
- “Walmart Gives Major Grant to Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund – Group that Helps Elect Mostly Openly Homosexual Democrats” (2014)
- “Human Rights Campaign’s Rigged Pro-Gay ‘Corporate Equality Index’ Rating System” (2010)
- “Wal-Mart Contributes $60,000 to Pro-Homosexual Employee Advocacy Group” (2006)
- “Wal-Mart Drops Gay Sex How-To Manual for Teens after LifeSiteNews Expose” (2006)
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LifeSiteNews reports:
Walmart earns 100% gay approval rating on homosexual group’s corporate scorecard
By Peter LaBarbera
December 6, 2016 (LifeSiteNews)
— For the first time ever, Walmart has scored a “perfect” 100 percent
ranking on a leading homosexual lobby group’s “corporate scorecard,”
meaning that to keep its score the retail giant will now cover
transsexual employees’ “sex reassignment surgeries” as part of its
healthcare coverage.
The decidedly anti-social-conservative “Corporate Equality Index”
(CEI) is produced by Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the world’s largest
homosexual-bisexual-transgender lobby organization. Companies are ranked
by whether or not they adopt pro-LGBTQ workplace and giving policies.
From year to year, HRC usually makes the criteria more stringent, thus
driving corporations to adopt ever-more radical pro-LGBTQ internal
policies and commitments to maintain their “perfect” scores.
Walmart’s new 100 percent score (up from 90 percent on last year’s
scorecard) marks its steadily growing embrace of LGBTQ advocacy at the
expense of its wholesome, pro-family image. In recent years, the
corporation has begun funding “gay pride” parades, in which lewd behavior is paraded in front of children, and homosexual activist groups like the Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund.
Lose points for backing natural marriage
Moreover, according to HRC’s biased “Index,” corporations are
punished (losing 25 points) for giving to pro-natural marriage groups
and causes while they are rewarded for giving money to LGBTQ causes.
According to “Criterion 5 of the “Index,”
“The Employers will have 25 points deducted from
their score for a large-scale official or public anti-LGBT blemish on
their recent records. No employer received this deduction in the 2017
CEI.”
In recent years, to accrue points toward a 100 percent ranking, major
corporations like Walmart have stepped up their giving of large grants
to LGBTQ organizations and events.
HRC announced on page 6 of its 111-page CEI report:
“199 of the Fortune 500-ranked businesses achieved a 100
percent rating (compared to 151 last year), with 12 of the top 20
Fortune-ranked businesses at this top score. Ninety-two percent of the
Fortune 500 include ‘sexual orientation’ in their nondiscrimination
policies and 82 percent include ‘gender identity.’ For the first time,
half of Fortune 500 companies offer transgender inclusive healthcare
benefits, including surgical procedures.”
A sampling of other 100 percent Fortune 500 corporations is below.
Walmart settles with “gay” legal group
Meanwhile,
Walmart announced that it has settled a class-action lawsuit with
another homosexual lobby group to pay past compensation to its
homosexual employees who had become same-sex “married” between 2011 and
2013 but were denied family health benefits.
The Boston-based LGBTQ legal organization GLAD (GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders) announced in a Dec. 2 release:
“The $7.5 million proposed settlement would pay for
claims by Walmart associates in the United States and Puerto Rico that
they were unable to obtain health insurance coverage for their same-sex
spouses from Walmart from Jan. 1, 2011 to Dec. 31, 2013. …“In 2014, Walmart voluntarily made the same health insurance benefits
available to same-sex spouses of its associates that it offered to
opposite-sex spouses. As part of the proposed settlement, Walmart
commits to continuing to do so in the future.”
A Walmart executive, Sally Welborn, senior vice president, global benefits, signaled that the settlement is part of the retailer’s pro-LGBTQ ethos (Walmart did not admit guilt as part of the terms):
“We’re happy both sides could come together to reach a
resolution. Respect for the individual, diversity and inclusion are
among the core values that made Walmart into the company that it is
today. We will continue to not distinguish between same and opposite sex
spouses when it comes to the benefits we offer under our health
insurance plan.”
GLAD states that the number of people collecting from the
class-action lawsuit is “expected to include no more than a few thousand
current and former Walmart associates. Walmart employs nearly 1.5
million associates in the U.S. and Puerto Rico.”
Walmart plays both sides
Interestingly, unlike many other corporations adopting pro-homosexual
policies, Walmart plays both sides of the social-issues “culture war.”
It does this by cultivating good relations with both homosexual
activists like HRC and Christian conservative organizations like
American Family Association (AFA).
Last year, Walmart received high praise from one of the most
prominent and respected pro-family leaders in America, Tim Wildmon, son
of Don Wildmon, who founded the Tupelo, Mississippi-based AFA. See this 2015 article,
where AFA president Tim Wildmon gives Walmart a “perfect 100” on its
“Corporate Religious Liberty Index” because of Walmart’s answers
“demonstrating that the corporation respects and values religious
freedoms.”
Other “perfect” pro-LGBTQ corporations
The following corporations are among those that joined Walmart as
Fortune 500 companies scoring 100 percent on HRC-skewed “Corporate
Equality Index” (2017):
Apple
AT&T
Ben and Jerry’s
BB&T Corp.
Best Buy
Boeing
3M
Chevron
Capital One
Comcast
Clorox
Coca-Cola
Colgate-Palmolive
Crate & Barrel
Dell
Eastman Kodak
Ebay
Expedia
Fannie Mae
Freddie Mac
Ford
GameStop
Gap
General Mills
GM
GE
Groupon
Hallmark Cards Inc.
Harris
Hartford
Hasbro
Hershey
Home Depot
Hyundai Motor America
Hyatt Hotels
Intel
IKEA
IBM
JC Penney
JetBlue
John Hancock Financial Services
Johnson & Johnson
Kaiser Permanente
Kellogg Co.
Kimberly-Clark Corp
Land O’Lakes
Lexmark
McDonald’s
Macy’s
Merck
MetLife
MGM Resorts
Mattel
MillerCoors
Microsoft
Nationwide
Nestle-Palmolive
Netflix
New York Life
Nike
Office Depot
Owens Corning
PayPal
Pepsico
PetSmart
Procter & Gamble
Prudential
Raytheon
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Salesforce
Southwest Airlines
Sony Corp. of America
Sony Pictures
Sprint
Starbucks
T-Mobile
T. Rowe Price
Tesla Motors
Time-Warner
Toys-R-Us
UPS
Walmart
Walt Disney
Whirlpool
Wyndham Worldwide
VW
Viacom