Posted on 06/19/2012 5:54:31 AM PDT by scottjewell
Remember when Big Business was conservative and was protested by hippies and leftists? Well now, socially speaking, corporate titans are siding with the Left against historic Judeo-Christian values – and God-fearing Christians and Jews are chiding the soulless, capitalist sellouts. The latest Behemoth to kick the Creator to the curb is General Mills — seemingly right up there with apple pie and motherhood as a symbol of American wholesomeness, but no more.
General Mills is maker of these iconic breakfast cereals:
Cheerios Chex Cinnamon Toast Crunch Fiber One Kix Lucky Charms Monsters Total Trix Wheaties
In bowing to the revolutionary, homosexualist redefinition of marriage, the cereal giant has had to re-invent morality itself. Thus it employs the same sanctimonious Diversity Doublespeak as all social leftists who — no matter what destructive policies they pursue — pat themselves on the back for being on the side of “progress.” How telling that a company like General Mills is now serving up the pablum of “inclusion” to justify its immoral turn.
General Mills boasts that its goal “is to be among the most socially responsible food companies in the world.” Memo to General Mills: promoting homosexuality (linked disproportionately to disease and dysfunction) as normative behavior – to the point of undermining natural marriage — is not “socially responsible” but rather the opposite, even though it earns plaudits from the usual morally-challenged suspects. (See this biased “Wikipedia” entry which, sounding like a press release for the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, notes that General Mills “received positive feedback for its stand [against the Minnesota marrriage amendment] which is expected to attract people to its global workforce.”)
Apparently General Mills’ executives, like those at Starbuck’s and other mega-corporations, are betting that more American consumers are FOR the sexual sin of homosexuality than against it. Time will tell if they are right, but regardless, corporate profits do not dictate moral Truth.
There are now far too many pro-homosexuality major corporations for us to declare this offender versus that offender a boycott target — so pro-family consumers can make their own purchasing choices. As for me, I will hesitate before buying a box of Wheaties or Cheerios, if only to strike a small, lonely blow for what’s right.
Besides, Aldi does a pretty good rip-off of Cheerios and Wheaties. – Peter LaBarbera, AFTAH
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LifeSiteNews reports:
Bye Bye Cheerios?: General Mills announces support for gay ‘marriage’
By Thaddeus Baklinski
ST. PAUL, Minnesota, June 15, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Minnesota-based food giant General Mills has publicly come out in opposition to a proposed constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage in Minnesota.
Currently same-sex “marriage” is against the law in Minnesota. However, in November, Minnesotans will vote on the amendment which would insert the true definition of marriage in the state constitution…
According to a post put up Thursday, June 14 on the General Mills company blog by Ken Charles, vice president of global diversity and inclusion, “General Mills CEO Ken Powell on Wednesday addressed 400 local gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender professionals and announced that the company opposes the amendment.”
“While General Mills doesn’t normally take positions on ballot measures, this is a business issue that impacts our employees,” Charles said in his post. “I am proud to see our company join the ranks of local and national employers speaking out for inclusion…”
Brian Brown, president of the National Organization for Marriage (NOM), a major advocate for the marriage amendment, blasted the General Mills Corporation for effectively declaring a “war on marriage” with its own customers.
“Marriage as the union of one man and one woman is profoundly in the common good, and it is especially important for children,” said Brown.
“General Mills makes billions marketing cereal to parents of young children. It has now effectively declared a war on marriage with its own customers when it tells the country that it is opposed to preserving traditional marriage, which is what the Minnesota Marriage Protection Amendment does.” … [LifeSiteNews article continues HERE]
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Just add milk and they eat themselves...
Lowes is tied in with the Girl Scouts...which push the liberal agenda.
Kobalt (available at Lowe's) makes good tools. No need for Craftsman.
Thanks.
Thanks.
It’s long and really sad but I found this.
Here is a list of companies scoring a 100 percent on the human rights campaign of corp equality index for 2010. (looks like they are pushing left wing ministers)
3M Co.
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A.T. Kearney
AAA Northern California, Nevada and Utah
Abercrombie & Fitch
Accenture Ltd.
Aetna
Agilent Technologies
Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld
Alaska Airlines
Alcatel-Lucent
Alcoa
Allianz Life Insurance Co. of North America
Allstate Corp.
Alston & Bird
AMC Entertainment
American Airlines
American Express
Ameriprise Financial
Anheuser-Busch Companies
Aon Corp.
Apple
Applied Materials
Arent Fox LLP
Arnold & Porter
AT&T
Automatic Data Processing
Bain & Co.
Baker & Daniels LLP
Baker Botts
Ballard Spahr
Bank of America
Bank of New York Mellon Corp.
Barnes & Noble
BASF
Bausch & Lomb
Best Buy
Bingham McCutchen
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida
BMC Software
Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals
Boeing
Booz Allen Hamilton
Borders
Boston Consulting Group
BP America
Bright Horizons Family Solutions
Brinker International
Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.
Brown Rudnick
Bryan Cave
Campbell Soup Co.
Capital One
Cardinal Health
Cargill
Carlson Companies
Carlton Fields
Carmax
Chapman & Cutler
Charles Schwab
Chevron
Chrysler
Chubb
Cisco Systems
Citigroup
Clear Channel Communications
Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton
Clifford Chance US LLP
Clorox
CNA Insurance
Coca-Cola
Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc.
Constellation Energy Group Inc.
Continental Airlines
Corning
Costco
Covington & Burling LLP
Cox Enterprises
Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP
Credit Suisse
Cummins
Davis, Polk and Wardwell
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
Dell
Deloitte & Touche
Delta Air Lines
Deutsche Bank
Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP
Diageo North America
Dickstein Shapiro
DLA Piper
Dorsey & Whitney
Dow Chemical
Duane Morris
DuPont
Eastman Kodak
eBay Inc.
Ecolab
Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP
Electronic Arts
Eli Lilly & Co.
Ernst & Young
Estee Lauder
Esurance
F.H.L.M.C. (Freddie Mac)
Faegre & Benson
Fannie Mae
Fenwick & West
Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner
Foley & Lardner
Foley Hoag
Food Lion
Ford
Freescale Semiconductor
Fried, Frank, Haris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP
Fulbright & Jaworski
GameStop
Gap
Genentech
General Mills
General Motors
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
GlaxoSmithKline
Goldman Sachs
Goodwin Procter
Google
Hallmark Cards
Harrah’s
Harris Bankcorp
Hartford Financial Services
Haynes and Boone LLP
Health Care Service Corp.
Herman Miller
Hewitt Associates
Hewlett-Packard
Hinshaw & Culbertson
Hogan & Hartson
Holland & Knight
Honeywell International
Hospira
Howrey LLP
HSBC USA
Hunton & Williams
Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP
Hyatt
ING North America Insurance
Intel
International Business Machines (IBM)
Interpublic Group of Companies
Intuit
J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.
Jenner & Block
JetBlue Airways
Johnson & Johnson
Kaiser Permanente
Katten Muchin Rosenman
Kaye Scholer
KeyCorp
Kimberly Clark Corp.
Kimpton Hotel & Restaurant Group
Kirkland & Ellis
KPMG
Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel
Latham & Watkins
Levi Strauss
LexisNexis
Lexmark International
Littler Mendelson PC
Liz Claiborne
Lockheed Martin Corp.
Macy
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP
Marriott International
Marsh & McLennan Cos.
Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance
MasterCard
Mayer Brown
McDermott Will & Emery
McKinsey & Co.
Medtronic
Merck & Co.
MetLife
Microsoft
Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy
MillerCoors
Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo
Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams
Monsanto
Morgan Lewis & Bockius
Morgan Stanley
Morrison & Foerster
Motorola
National Grid USA
Nationwide
Navigant Consulting
NCR
NetApp
New York Life Insurance Co.
New York Times Co.
Newell Rubbermaid
Nielsen Co.
Nike
Nixon Peabody
Nordstrom
Northern Trust
Northrop Grumman
Novartis Pharmaceutical Corp.
O’Melveny & Myers
Oracle
Orbitz
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe
Owens Corning
Pacific Life Insurance
Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP
Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP
Pepper Hamilton
Pepsi Bottling Group Inc.
PepsiCo
Perkins Coie
Pfizer
PG&E
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Procter & Gamble
Progressive Corp.
Proskauer Rose LLP
Prudential Financial
Public Service Enterprise Group
Quarles & Brady
Raymond James Financial
Raytheon
RBC Wealth Management
Recreational Equipment Inc.
Replacements Ltd.
Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi LLP
Ropes & Gray LLP
S.C. Johnson & Son
Sabre Holdings
SAP America
Schering-Plough
Sears
Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold LLP
Sempra Energy
Seyfarth Shaw LLP
Shearman & Sterling
Shell Oil
Shook, Hardy & Bacon
Sidley Austin
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
Sodexho
Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal
Southern California Edison
Sprint Nextel
Squire, Sanders & Dempsey LLP
Starbucks
Starcom MediaVest
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide
State Street Corp.
Stinson Morrison Hecker
Stoel Rives
Subaru of America
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
Sun Life Financial Inc.
Sun Microsystems
SunTrust Banks
Supervalu
Sutherland Asbill & Brennan
Symantec Corp.
Target
TD Bank
Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association
Tech Data
Texas Instruments
Thompson Coburn
Time Warner
TJX Cos.
Toyota Financial Services
Toyota Motor Sales USA
Travelport
Troutman Sanders
U.S. Bancorp
UBS AG
Unilever
United Business Media
United Parcel Service
UnitedHealth Group
US Airways Group
Viacom
Vinson & Elkins
Visa
Visteon Corp.
Volkswagen of America
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
Walgreen
Walt Disney
Weil, Gotshal and Manges
Wells Fargo & Co.
Whirlpool
White & Case
Willkie Farr & Gallagher
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
Winston & Strawn
Wynn Resorts
Xerox
Yahoo!
For instance for a while on FR, people were saying to patronize Starbucks because they were pro 2nd amendment...then 6 months later to boycott them because they were pro homo....who can keep this crap straight?
Yes, this is why a change of cultural perspective is needed: If the times shifted, and the agenda went out of fashion (and going out of fashion is about the worst thing to happen in America these days ) then these companies would quietly divest themselves of this agenda and its ideology.
In the meantime, these companies do not give a hoot or holler if a few out-of-step Christians call or email and cancel their business. National Organization for Marriage hosted a “Dump Starbucks” campaign: Well, the pro-gay groups countered with a “Thank Starbucks” campaign, which got 10x as many signatures. Its a losing battle if the culture does not shift.
The American people are so run down with pressures in life they experience every day..job losses, high taxes, cost of goods rising that 95% of Americans don't care about these pro gay attempts by these companies...94% are not even aware to begin with...they just don't care even if they did...it is so far down on the importance list.
All this boycotting does is make the person who boycotts feel a little bit better but does not mean a hill of beans. General Mills is a huge co with huge market share in just about every area...that is just about impossible to not buy one of their products in daily life.
That is the cold hard truth.
I'm not going to waste my time going through stores with a boycott/not boycott list....
Yes, this is why a change of cultural perspective is needed: If the times shifted, and the agenda went out of fashion (and going out of fashion is about the worst thing to happen in America these days ) then these companies would quietly divest themselves of this agenda and its ideology.
Are you saying we should do what everyone else is doing and forget what we believe is wrong to please people?
I may be wrong but I think what he was meaning was these boycotts don't mean anything and the really important way is to change peoples views over a period of time..kinda like abortion. People who claim they are pro choice are less every year.
No, I am saying the opposite: Instead of boycotting stores, there should be (and should have been some time ago) an aggressive push back against the agenda, in every area of the culture.
Thanks, yes, that is what I was saying. Plus, it has to be a radical push back, otherwise, as you say, people just lose interest. If the gay agenda has won, as many think it has, then people who disagree with it begin tuning out. Which is exactly what they want. There has to be a strong push back, or this is a done deal.
I think the list was a really good idea; thanks for posting it - it shows just how far gone the situation is.
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