Posted on 11/05/2015 5:29:21 AM PST by xzins
Yesterday, voters in the City of Houston overwhelming rejected Proposition 1, also known as the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance (HERO).
As conservatives and values minded individuals organized to defeat the measure, liberal groups supporting HERO were bouyed by big business.
Utilizing 2nd Vote's research, The Daily Signal’s Kelsey Harkness identified 7 major coporations supporting the ballot initiative:
1. Apple
2. BASF
3. Dell
4. Dow Co.
5. General Electric
6. Hewlett Packard
7. United Airlines
HERO had been controversial since it was first implemented in 2014 and Houston area pastors leading the effort to recall the measure had their sermons subpoenaed by city attorneys. 2nd Vote stood with the Family Research Council and the Houston pastors just one year ago this week in support of religious liberty.
The Heritage Foundation's Ryan T. Anderson took big business to task for its involvement:
“Once again big business wants its freedom to operate according to its values, but wants to deny that freedom to others. In Houston they are advocating for the kind of policy that has elsewhere penalized family businesses of bakers, florists and photographers, as well as faith-based adoption agencies. This is cultural cronyism at its worst."
They say this measure goes even farther than other sexual orientation and gender identity laws that have been implemented throughout the country, and they fear that the inclusion of sexual identity could allow men who identify as women to use women’s bathrooms, locker rooms, and other sex-specific facilities, without having legally changed their name or undergone surgery or hormone treatment.
You can read the rest of the Daily Signal's article here to learn more about a newspaper ad signed by executives from JPMorgan Chase, UnitedHealthCare, Citi, HSBC Bank, and others in support of the HERO measure. 2nd Vote’s research found that United Airlines helped pay for this newspaper ad with a direct $10,000 contribution.
Did they support it, or were they merely afraid NOT to support it?
Ah contraire…Apple’s last update has screwed up phones and desktops all over the country, so much so that the CNBC hosts of “Squawk Box” were discussing it yesterday morning.
Tim Cook should start worrying about the poor performance of Steve Jobs’ company instead of interfering in the Indiana religious protection legislation and Houston’s fight over transgenders in the bathrooms.
Or simply put:
Company X+Sen Chub +RepMindy (2nd base)
_____________________________________=stupid NJ chemical factory.
LGBT cause in Texas+1.5 million or whatever
Yep, it’s no different than Nikon USA pushing the fag agenda in the U.S. while Nikon Inc (Japan) is oblivious to it.
Carthego delenda est: you need to write the mathematical book to cover the Clinton Foundation, Trump, Carson, the Kennedy assassination, CNN, Teletubbies, NCAA bowl committee action, hunting fees, successful cowboy movies, the Hulk, the Nazis, and the limited success of the Dallas Cowboys over the past decade.
If you write the book....I’ll buy a copy. Call it the 500 formulas that you need to know in life.
All but Apple. I hate them, but they make good products.
Don’t they make lubricant?
Gender “fluid” is the newest thing.
The fact that “no dudes in your daughter’s locker room” isn’t even common sense anymore, it’s something to be voted on, just shows how far we have fallen.
LOL! Instant best seller!
We failed to shut this stuff down when they were merely whining to not be discriminated against, like demanding widows wishing to rent a room being forced to accept sodomites!
The old lessons renewed: “give an inch, they take a mile”
“Camel’s nose in the tent”
I miss Jobs at the helm. He didn’t get involved in stuff like this, just concentrated on developing and selling the best phones, laptops, o/s, etc. possible.
My last Dell computer. I guess I’ll invent my own.
“The fact that “no dudes in your daughter’s locker room†isn’t even common sense anymore, it’s something to be voted on, just shows how far we have fallen.”
Sad but true.
When Carly Fiorina was CEO of HP the company was rated one of the top companies the LBGT perverts to work. The company also donated millions of dollars for abortion on demand. All under her leadership.
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