State Farm Insurance
Customer Relations
Dear Sir:
I am only somewhat relieved to see that you have wisely decided to separate from the GenderCool project. What I would like to see is for you to also take public action to reverse the effect of your foolish support of such a group.
I see on your National Community Relationships page that you partner with a number of LGBTQ type organizations and others I also do not support.
As a general observation I wonder why a company such as SF supports any interest organization? If you can’t support all of them why support any that some, most or all of your customers and shareholders are opposed to? Why not just remain socially and politically neutral and sell insurance, service your customers and make money for your shareholders? Aren’t those your real or only responsibilities? Why take on an often objectionable obligation to step in as a public servant instead of just letting the people and philanthropies do that job? This corporate role in society is one I will never understand. It is counterproductive to your first obligation to make money for your shareholders. I doubt most would have any opposition to that consideration. If they do perhaps they should find an entity whose mission is social cause and not making money. I have no doubt that there are an ample number of investors who are only interested in buying your stock for profit. People who might enjoy your profitability can decide on their own what to support with their own money on their own time.
You should be very thankful to ______ your excellent agent in ______ for my continuing patronage of SF as my insurance carrier. He is the first reason I chose SF in the group of contenders I considered to bundle my insurance and the only reason I am reluctant to change carriers. Someone you know, trust and have reason to count on is worth more than a small change in premium.
You were much too pleasant and reasonable.
If it was my insurance company I would have been much tougher, using language like “raw evil” and “advocating child abuse”.
I would have demanded that every single executive who signed off on the travesty be publicly named and publicly fired.