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.
1. Apple
2. BASF
3. Dell
4. Dow Co.
5. General Electric
6. Hewlett Packard
7. United Airlines
Added to my do not support list.
BASF. We don’t make them gay, we make them gay er...
Headquartered in Ludwigshafen, Germany and a chemical company
Why does a foreign chemical company have the authority to attempt to influence a US election of any variety?
We pushed back against the Chamber Of Commerce.
You can’t have a strong America without traditional values.
The voters of Houston agreed with that view.
This gives lots of us hope to start pushing back against this.
The “trans” fad is just the latest toy for the left, and being early on, we can still stop this from running over us like the homosexual thing did.
It isn’t BASF Germany that headed this ‘game’. It’s BASF-USA, headquartered out of New Jersey. My guess is that they have some requirements that need political help...which the LGBT team are pushing, and they had to pay into this pot to get the help.
If you asked corporate at BASF Germany....they’d probably just look at you with the deer-in-the-headlights look. They have no idea what this weird relationship is about.
For the life of me I can’t figure out why a business wants boys in girls locker rooms???
What does it even have to do with them?
For a law to be rejected by THAT WIDE a margin ought to tell us that NOT just deeply religious conservative Republicans voted against this nonsense.
‘’Twould be advisable for Apple to start concentratung on innovation again instead of sex...their products don’t suck...yet...but the vacuum is beginning.
Do you think CArly Fiorina would call HP out over this?
Anthony Kennedy and his 4 reliable Marxist Judges will make this law in spite of the wishes of the people.
“Gays”, the Human Rights Campaign, and ALL human rights NGOs, are America’s biggest enemies—worst than ISIS!!!!
All the big, New World Order Bankster banks, such as the Rockefellers’’ JP Morgan Chase, support “gay” rights, and help stage the garish and intolerable “gay” parades and special “gay” days in our public schools!!!! They also push for “globe warming”-based measures and Agenda 21 aimed at enslaving once free middle-class Americans, and do everything possible to bash the Christian faith!!!!
FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT back against the machine!!!!
Their CEO does.
You are missing the point. This works like the Clinton Foundation.
Company X needs desperate help from Senator Chub and Representative Mindy. Lobbyist Joe stands up and has a connection and can guarantee results (even from Republicans). But to get to home plate, it means you have to pass 2nd base and there’s some requirement for you to shuttle money to some LGBT cause in Texas....to get the political support to build some stupid New Jersey chemical factory.
So you shovel 1.5 million or whatever dollars....into this campaign in Texas to make the LGBT guy happy and get the lobbyists to work out the issue with the political guys for your stupid chemical factory. I’m guessing that since a chemical company is in the middle of this...the EPA is also connected and has some lobbyist and LGBT connection as well.
‘HERO’
How appalling they would conceive of using such a glorious acronym for their perverted proposition. LGBT goes against all Laws of Nature. And indoctrination of children into their fight for ‘civil rights’ should be a punishable offense. Ah, but they have the highest levels of Government working for them. Prayers that our country can survive them.
Apple CEO Tim Cook is “gay”.
Apple needs to fire him, and push innovation instead of “gay” rights and “gay” “design”!!!!
It’s time for Houston to impeach its lesbian Mayor, too!!!!
I work in Houston and we have contracts with many businesses in Houston. Quite a few of them (at least 75%) told us that if this crap passed they would move out of the city.
How’s the butch mayorette taking it?
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