Posted on 05/21/2023 5:51:15 PM PDT by Libloather
The country's largest advocacy group for LGBTQ+ rights has suspended its equality and inclusion rating for Bud Light over its poor handling of the backlash that followed from a partnership with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney.
Last week the Human Rights Campaign told the Bud Light parent company Anheuser-Busch that it had suspended its Corporate Equality Index score - a tool that rates companies' friendliness to LGBTQ employees.
The suspension of Anheuser-Busch's CEI score means the company 'no longer has the right to use the 'Best Places to Work' distinction,' HRC's letter says. Before the suspension, Anheuser-Busch had a CEI score of 100, the group's top rating.
The rating is also linked to the financial health of a company - 15 of the top 20 Fortune-ranked companies received 100 percent ratings from HRC last year, according to its own data.
HRC's move comes as Senator Ted Cruz called for a federal investigation into whether Anheuser-Busch breached regulatory guidelines 'prohibiting marketing to individuals younger than the legal drinking age'.
In a letter dated May 9, the Human Rights Campaign notified the beer company of its decision to rescind its rating.
'Anheuser-Busch had a key moment to really stand up and demonstrate the importance of their values of diversity, equity and inclusion and their response really fell short,' wrote Eric Bloem, HRC's senior director, in the letter, which was first seen by USA Today.
Criticism for the management of the controversy was reiterated by Bloem.
'What we're seeing play out here is an example of companies making a decision to have and construct inclusive marketing, which is great - but a business should be standing by those decisions,' he told The Associated Press.
'The Anheuser-Busch (case) is a textbook example of what not to do.'
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The homo lobby issues the ‘Best Places to Work’ rankings? Huh?
Uh, oh. Another headline -
Bud Light is ready to buy back unsold cases of expired beer that sat on shelves as consumers revolted over partnership with Dylan Mulvaney
This might be the first thing Ted Cruz accomplished since his assentation into Senatehood.
Go woke, go broke!
The whole rebate trick, in the hopes of skewing sales numbers, will also provide AB with the names and addresses of people purchasing their product. It’s the main reason I have yet to add a store app to my smartphone in the 6 years of owning one. No discount is worth the invasion of privacy.
Human Rights Campaign to Busch: “Don’t Say Gay!”
“This might be the first thing Ted Cruz accomplished since his assentation into Senatehood.”
Don’t hold your breath. To Ted, this is a photo op.
We must never buy bud prosucts again.This IS the HILL to die on.Other companies are watching and paying attention.If Bud wins,we lose everything.
Of course it is. He’s in the reelection of his life. You’ll see a lot of this crap he knows won’t pass.
“Human Rights Campaign”
Misnomer for The Degeneracy Council.
That is correct, sadly.
Walk left side road .. O.K. walk right side..O.K. walk middle of road, get squished. MR. Miogy - the karate kid.
The values of any company should be these: provide a product or service that people want to use and pay for, give investors a return on their investment, treat employees respectfully as integral to the company’s success, and offer wages and benefits that attract quality workers. CEI is a cancer and companies had better start getting rid of it.
It’s public shaming. That’s how groups like HRC coerce companies to adopt DIE related nonsense.
THAT'S how companies get that title?? Holy cow now I know what companies to avoid working for.
Human Rights Campaign = The right for homosexuals to rape children.
you know he’s over the target when the left is crying about how ted is wasting his time and that it’s just a witch hunt.
Human Rights Campaign sounds as fraudulent as The Human Fund.
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