Posted on 07/09/2015 9:18:10 AM PDT by HomerBohn
Two days after the U.S. Supreme Court’s revolutionary June 26 decision declaring same-sex marriage to be a “constitutional right,” Walmart Corporation led a bevy of corporate sponsors publicly supporting New York City’s LBGT Pride parade. As with most events of this type, the parade featured numerous participants, floats, and organizations promoting everything profane, lewd, nude, and crude.
Peter LaBarbera of Americans For Truth About Homosexuality (AFTAH) was there to witness the degenerate corporate-sponsored spectacle. He writes:
New York City’s annual homosexual “Pride” parade — sponsored Sunday (June 28, 2015) for the first time at the highest “Platinum” level by Walmart Corporation — featured nudity, lewdness, vulgarity and even a sadomasochism float — subjecting the many young children who either marched in or viewed the parade to behaviors and messages that are highly inappropriate for their age and emotional immaturity.
This AFTAH writer observed most of the parade, which was dominated by major corporate sponsors. One of the bases for the Supreme Court’s stunningly radical June 26 ruling creating a “constitutional right” for homosexual “marriage” is that it “safeguards children and families.” But in truth homosexual parenting harms kids in a variety of ways. It was precisely homosexual (and pro-”gay”) parents who brought impressionable children to observe this highly-sexualized parade glorifying immorality and gender confusion. This is just one example, but a very troubling one, of how “gay parenting” harms children.
(Caution: The AFTAH story features offensive images, expletives, and graphic descriptions that are not appropriate for children or adolescents.)
True to form, the pro-perversion corporate media sanitized their coverage of the event, following the instructions of homosexual strategists Marshall Kirk and Hunter Madsen to always present the “gay” culture in a positive light and keep “straight” America from seeing the true depravity of the movement. In After the Ball: How America Will Conquer Its Fear and Hatred of Gays in the 90’s, Kirk and Madsen warn homosexual leaders and organizers of events not to “draw attention to the gay sex habits that provoke public revulsion.” “In the early stages of the campaign,” the deviant duo insisted, “the public should not be shocked and repelled by premature exposure to homosexual behavior itself.”
Hence, TV “news” viewers and newspaper readers will see only stories extolling how the “Pride” parade is promoting “love,” “tolerance,” “freedom,” and “human rights.”
Newsweek went all-out with a June 30 story celebrating the homosexual “victory,” entitled “The Love Vote: How Corporate America Propelled Same-Sex Marriage.” The story’s cover graphic (appropriately) featured the traditional communist clenched fist symbol — grasping a rainbow, which the lavender lobby has co-opted, in the same way that they have subverted the meaning of the once respectable word “gay.”
“A little less than four years ago, 70 businesses and professional organizations made a dramatic stand on one of the country’s most divisive social issues,” writes Newsweek’s Emily Cadei. “In November 2011, they signed on to a legal brief asking a U.S. appeals court in Massachusetts to overturn the Defense of Marriage Act, the 1996 law that barred the federal government from recognizing gay marriages. Getting the backing of major corporations, including Aetna, Google and Nike, wasn’t easy. The lawyers who wrote the ‘friend of the court’ brief ‘had to work hard to find the right people,’ says Susan Manning, an attorney with one of the firms that helped write that brief."
The Newsweek story continues:
Contrast that with what happened this past spring, when Manning and her colleagues at Morgan Lewis, a law firm with a long list of corporate clients, set out to write a similar brief in Obergefell v. Hodges, the case the Supreme Court decided on June 26, which effectively legalized same-sex marriage nationwide. The day the court agreed to take that case, Manning says, she had business leaders calling her up and asking, “Are you guys going to do this? We want to be involved.” She says 379 companies signed that brief, including behemoths of retail (Wal-Mart), finance (JPMorgan Chase) and sports (the New England Patriots).
The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) is one of the top players in the militant homosexual lobby that has been luring, enticing, cajoling, and browbeating corporate executives and boards of directors to join in support of normalizing perversion. The HRC's Platinum Partners include:
American Airlines
Apple
Coca-Cola Company
Microsoft
Nationwide Insurance
Northrup Grumman
Target
HRC’s Corporate Gold Partners include:
Bank of America
Chevron
Citi
Lexus
Prudential
HRC’s Corporate Silver Partners include:
Cox Enterprises
Hyatt
MGM Resorts
Nike
Tylenol
HRC’s Bronze partners include:
Dell
Goldman Sachs
Hershey’s
IBM
Macy’s Inc.
MetLife
Morgan Stanley
Orbitz
PepsiCo
Pfizer Shell
Starbucks
Whirlpool
The HRC’s annual Corporate Equality Index has become one of the politically correct barometers that many of the corporate elite now believe they must score well on — regardless of if it offends millions of their straight customers. The HRC index rates companies on sexual orientation in non-discrimination policy, gender identity in non-discrimination policy, domestic partner health benefits, transgender-inclusive health benefits, organizational competency practices, and public commitment to the LBGT community.
HRC’s 2015 Corporate Equality Index gives 100-percent ratings to 14 of the top 20 Fortune magazine-ranked companies. They are:
Chevron Corp.
Apple
General Motors Co.
General Electric Co.
Ford Motor Co.
AT&T
Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae)
CVS Caremark Corp.
McKesson Corp.
Hewlett-Packard Co.
UnitedHealth Group Inc.
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Cardinal Health Inc.
IBM
WalMart and Verizon received 90 percent ratings form HRC for 2015.
Pro-Family, Pro-Marriage Pushback
Various Christian, pro-family, pro-marriage organizations are taking note of the corporate betrayal in supporting the homosexuals’ attacks on God, family, marriage, and freedom of religion. Just prior to the Obergefell v. Hodges Supreme Court ruling, the American Family Association, the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, the Family Research Council, Samaritan's Purse, and other groups targeted banking giant Wells Fargo for its public and financial support for the homosexual agenda. (See here and here)
Franklin Graham, son of Rev. Billy Graham, explained in a USA Today op-ed why he decided to withdraw the assets of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association from Wells Fargo: "By staying at Wells Fargo," he wrote, "we would not only be associating with the promotion of a lifestyle we believe to be wrong, we also would actually be helping to pay for the advertisements by virtue of banking with them — because a bank has no money to advertise with other than the money its customers place in its trust and the interest earned on that money. We simply chose not to continue doing business with a bank that is promoting something that violates our conscience and beliefs."
Unless more Christians practice similar stewardship regarding where they shop and bank, and the businesses they support, the trend toward corporate capitulation to, and promotion of, the homosexual agenda will surely accelerate.
Corporate support of homosexuality is based on that the fear of being politically incorrect is greater than the fear of moral people, It is also based on the infiltration of political homosexual agenda sycophants into the management ranks of these corporations.
corporations even Republican ones really are not conservative. And they also use up all of the GOP political capitol. That needs to change.
Fine, then these Big Corporations are on their own. Screw them. They should never again look to conservatives to protect and defend them.
Good luck to them trying to get the Left to help them!
Corporate fingerprints are everywhere and it was corporate pressure that led to “Christian Conservative Republican” governors in Indiana and Arkansas backing down on religious freedom legislation to protect bakers and others from legal attack earlier this year.
Good luck to them trying to get the Left to help them!
You don't seem to have noticed that the left is now fascist, rather than socialist. Socialism doesn't work, not even if you kill lots of people to implement it can call it Communism, because as Margaret Thatcher observed, eventually you run out of other people's money. Fascism, on the other hand, keeps a not-quite-free market economy running, so the problem of running out of money doesn't arise. And big corporations love fascism: the state creates regulations that prevent new entrants into the market (at least, sometimes it grants outright monopolies), gives them fat contracts, bails them out when they've made lousy economic decision, all they have to do is go along with whatever political program the state lays out and the bottom line does just fine.
I’m getting to the point where I’m ready to join your call for higher taxes on the rich and corporations.
They are selling us out, seems like time to return the favor.
Yep.
Social Conservatives need to be aware a tactic I’ve seen in action for “homogenizing” the homo-corporate “culture”:
Homonazis are very adept at manufacturing “perception” against anyone they “feel” is “offensive” to their cause.
Worship the Cult-ural Emperor’s Rainbow Underwear - OR ELSE!
Ping.
So what happens when the free market gets hijacked as we can plainly see here?
Without submission to and focus upon a higher power...
{ insert Romans 1:25 flushing sound }
The left are not fascist. They are hard core communists. There is one hell of a difference.
I’ve always been a Republican supporter of free enterprise, but big business is increasingly supportive of moral evil.
And more than likely, they were bluffing. What corporation wants to turn down the business of an entire state?
The governors should have stood strong and stalwart, and the issue would have blown over in weeks, if not days.
Of course they do. Weaker governement, weaker families, equals stronger globalists.
Believe me, I DO notice the fascism.
Sadly, the trojan horse that was used by Gov’t to infiltrate and control Big Corporate America was federal anti-discrimination law, leading to a host of other federal alphabet involvement in Big Biz.
Now they are just appendages of the Leftist State.
The Long March Through the Institutions nears its end.
Indeed. They hope that people will fill the holes in their hearts by buying/consuming meaningless crap that the cprporations sell/shill.
As I have said from post one. SO:, to your question: Individually you should not participate in this hijacking for one thing. In the big picture, you condemn and expose the hijackers, not the market per se. (see below). For instance, Ted Cruz, Sarah Palin, Donald Trump are often talking about this (in terms of cronyism, the Washington Cartel, etc.) They are fighting these very hijackers. As are a lot of writers, hosts, commentators, and others.
Now to the system: You must realize that in any other system, one that precludes a free system and a free market, it's the entire system that is a hijack. The concentration of wealth and power is always worse and more rampant in any system other than a market system. EVERY SINGLE TIME.
You then rely on wisdom, that the Bible and our Founding docs are clear - a perfect Utopia is not gonna happen (in the temporal). The free market is the only system that rewards honest and mutually beneficial dealings. It is the only system that allows millions of people to direct their hard earned property into God's work. Period.
Even the leftist who call themselves Communist, leaving aside the hereditary monarchies of North Korea and Cuba, are now fascist. You might have noticed that the PRC now has stock-exchanges.
Also notice how the American left uses race as the basis for its program. An awful lot of rubbish coming from the American left, if you cut and paste “Jews” for “whites”, “world Jewry” for “the white race” and the like would sound like it came out of the Reich propaganda offices.
If Sodom and Gomorrah had corporations, they would have been all in for their Homo culture. Obviously whatever they had for government was.
Big government enables big business to curry for favors.
Social engineering of the work force and advertising to appear more politically correct to curry political favor are cheaper than making a better product or acquiring new customers.
The scary thing is that all four big defense contractors, Northrup Grumman, Boeing, Raytheon and Lockheed Martin, have had a high to perfect score on the out and equal index for years - because it is easier to set up Employee Resource Groups for gays, let mentally ill men use the bathroom and recruit only ethnic minorities than design a better jet or improve the delivery time of missiles.
And they’ve been this way for years, far to the left of the military that is hemorrhaging people over open homosexuality, all because implementing far left HR policies was a low cost way to gain political favor and billions in contracts.
In short, they sold their souls for the money involved, and the rights of the not-radical employees are irrelevant in the name of the minorities.
I noticed JCPenney’s not on the list.
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