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• 7 COMPANI THAT DON'T SUPPORT GAY RIGHTS
• DON'T LET THAT RABOW LOGO FOOL YOU: THE 9 CORPORATNS DONATED MILLNS TO ANTI-GAY POLICIANS
• THE BS DON’T WANT YOUR MONEY IF YOU’RE LGBT, MARRIED OR NOTDECLINEDSOME BS WANT TO BE ABLE TO REFE SERVIC TO LGBT PEOPLE, MARRIED OR NOT, AS SHOWN THE DISTURBG URT SE OF A HAWAII B&B OWNER WHO TURNED AWAY A LBIAN UPLE.SAMANTHA ALLENUPDATED JUL. 15, 2018 7:53PM EDT / PUBLISHED JUL. 14, 2018 9:03PM EDT PHOTO ILLTRATN BY THE DAILY BEASTTHANKS TO THE MASTERPIECE CAKHOP SE, THE NVERSATN AROUND RELIG LIBERTY AND LGBT RIGHTS THE UNED STAT HAS BEEN FOCED MOSTLY ON WEDDG SERVIC RECENT MONTHS: SHOULD BAKERS BE ABLE TO CE RELIGN ORR TO NY WEDDG K TO SAME-SEX UPL? CAN FLORISTS REFE TO ARRANGE FLOWERS? WHAT ABOUT STATNERY SHOPS?BUT AS A RECENTLY-CID HAWAII SUPREME COURT SE SHOULD REMD , ANTI-LGBT GROUPS DON’T JT WANT TO MAKE LEGAL TO NY WEDDG SERVIC TO LGBT PEOPLE, THEY WANT TO MAKE LEGAL TO DISCRIMATE BASED ON SEXUAL ORIENTATN AND GENR INTY VIRTUALLY EVERY AREA OF PUBLIC LIFE.AS THE ASSOCIATED PRS REPORTED, THE HAWAII SUPREME COURT LAST WEEK REJECTED AN APPEAL OM PHYLLIS YOUNG, THE OWNER OF ALOHA BED & BREAKFAST, WHO HAD ARGUED THAT SHE SHOULD BE ABLE TO TURN AWAY A LBIAN UPLE BEE OF THEIR SEXUAL ORIENTATN. THE UPLE, DIANE CERVELLI AND TAEKO BUFORD, DIDN’T E TO HAWAII TO GET MARRIED—OR EVEN AS PART OF THEIR HONEYMOON. RATHER, AS LAMBDA LEGAL NOT, THEY HAD E TO HONOLULU TO VIS A IEND AND HER NEW BABY. THIS WAS A CLEAR-CUT SE OF A RELIG-BASED SERVICE REFAL THAT HAD NOTHG TO DO WH A WEDDG. BUT THE B&B OWNER WAS REPRENTED BY ALLIANCE DEFENDG FREEDOM, THE SAME GROUP THAT REPRENTED THE MASTERPIECE CAKHOP BAKER. ACRDG TO THE AP REPORT, YOUNG MAY APPEAL THE HAWAII SUPREME COURT’S CISN—ONE OF SEVERAL RELIG-BASED SERVICE REFAL S THAT ULD REACH THE UNED STAT SUPREME COURT THE NEXT FEW YEARS. WHAT MAK THE HAWAII SE STICK OUT, LAMBDA LEGAL SENR ATTORNEY PETER RENN TOLD ME, IS THAT HAD NO SPECIFIC TIE TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE—AND YET THE SAME GROUP OF LGBT OPPONENTS STILL BACKED .“THE OTHER S THAT WE’VE BEEN TALKG ABOUT VOLVG FLORISTS AND K CENTER AROUND A WEDDG,” HE SAID. “AND ANTI-GAY DISCRIMATN HAPPENS A BROAD RANGE OF NTEXTS, CLUDG OUTSI WEDDG SERVIC. THIS SE ILLTRAT THAT POT.”GROUPS LIKE ALLIANCE DEFENDG FREEDOM STAND TO BENEF OM ADVANCG WEDDG-FOCED URT S, MALY BEE SUCH S SEEM TO MORE SUCCSFULLY DRIVE A WEDGE THROUGH PUBLIC OPN.ON ONE HAND, PUBLIC RELIGN REARCH INSTUTE DATA SHOWS THAT 60 PERCENT OF AMERINS OPPOSE RELIG-BASED SERVICE REFALS, CLUDG NEARLY HALF OF THOSE WHO OPPOSE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE. BUT ON OTHER, A 2017 YOUGOV POLL FOUND THAT AMERINS WERE “TORN” ON THE MASTERPIECE CAKHOP QUTN: EVEN THOUGH A CLEAR MAJORY SUPPORTED THE COLORADO ANTI-DISCRIMATN STATUTE UNR WHICH THE BAKER WAS SUED, 57 PERCENT OF RPONNTS SAID THEY WOULD TAKE THE BAKER’S SI THE SUPREME COURT SE.IN OTHER WORDS, A NOT-SUBSTANTIAL NUMBER OF AMERINS GENERALLY OPPOSE NYG SERVICE TO AN LGBT PERSON BASED ON RELIG BELIEF—BUT WOULD ALLOW IF THE SERVICE WERE WEDDG-RELATED. THAT’S ONE REASON WHY S LIKE MASTERPIECE OR ARLENE’S FLOWERS WASHGTON STATE SEEM TO RECEIVE SUCH SPECIAL ATTENTN OM ANTI-LGBT GROUPS.“THEY MIGHT PREFER TO HAVE A SE THAT ALS WH WEDDG-RELATED SERVIC BEE WRONGLY SUGGTS THAT THE EXEMPTN THAT THE OTHER SI IS SEEKG WOULD BE NARROW BUT FACT WE KNOW WOULDN’T BE NARROW,” SAID RENN. “GIVG A BS A RIGHT TO DISCRIMATE BASED ON SEXUAL ORIENTATN IS NO WAY NFED TO WEDDG K AND FLOWERS FOR A WEDDG.”FOR PROOF, ONE NEED ONLY LOOK SOUTH TO MISSISSIPPI, WHERE AN EXTREME ANTI-LGBT LAW KNOWN AS HB 1523 REMAS EFFECT, PART THANKS TO THE SUPREME COURT’S JANUARY CISN NOT TO HEAR A CHALLENGE TO . THAT LAW SPECIFILLY ENUMERAT A SMALL HANDFUL OF RELIG BELIEFS—NAMELY THAT MARRIAGE IS BETWEEN A MAN AND A WOMAN AND THAT GENR N’T BE CHANGED—AND THEN EXPRSLY PROTECTS DISCRIMATN BASED ON THOSE BELIEFS. HB 1523 DON’T JT APPLY TO WEDDG-RELATED SERVIC; RATHER, N, AS THE DAILY BEAST’S JAY MICHAELSON NOTED, BE CED BY VIRTUALLY ANYONE: DOCTORS, THERAPISTS, LANDLORDS, EMPLOYERS, AND SO ON. “THE SLOPE IS VERY SLIPPERY AND THERE IS REALLY NO LIM TO THE EXEMPTNS THE OTHER SI WOULD SEEK IF RELIGN, FACT, GAVE ONE A TMP RD TO VLATE CIVIL RIGHTS LAWS” THE MISSISSIPPI LAW IS SUPPORTED BY THE SAME PEOPLE BEHD THE WEDDG-RELATED URT S THAT SEEM TO GARNER MORE PUBLIC AND NATNAL MEDIA ATTENTN. ALLIANCE DEFENDG FREEDOM, THE SAME LEGAL GROUP BEHD THE MASTERPIECE CAKHOP BAKER AND THE HAWAII B&B OWNER, “PLAYED A KEY ROLE” THE DRAFTG OF HB 1523, AS THE WASHGTON POST REPORTED. THAT LAW, MORE THAN ANYTHG, IS PROOF THAT LGBT OPPONENTS WON’T BE NTENT TO STOP AT WEDDG-RELATED SERVICE REFALS IF THEY START FDG SUCCS THE URTS, AS TIM TEEMAN OF THE DAILY BEAST HAS REPORTED.“THE SLOPE IS VERY SLIPPERY AND THERE IS REALLY NO LIM TO THE EXEMPTNS THE OTHER SI WOULD SEEK IF RELIGN, FACT, GAVE ONE A TMP RD TO VLATE CIVIL RIGHTS LAWS,” SAID RENN.BUT DON’T EXPECT BROAR RELIG-BASED REFAL S LIKE THE HAWAII B&B TO BE THE FIRST THAT LGBT OPPONENTS WILL TRY TO E TO RVE OUT ROOM FOR DISCRIMATN AT THE FERAL LEVEL. ONE REASON WHY MASTERPIECE CAKHOP AND ARLENE’S FLOWERS ARE SO APPEALG, AS RENN NOT, IS BEE ALLOWS ANTI-LGBT GROUPS TO ARGUE THAT K AND FLOWERS ARE NOT JT SERVIC, BUT SPEECH. IN NARROWLY SIDG WH THE CHRISTIAN BAKER MASTERPIECE, THE SUPREME COURT DODGED A DIRECT RECKONG WH THAT ARGUMENT, BUT REMAS ONE THAT LGBT OPPONENTS ARE EAGER TO HAVE.“THE OTHER SI MIGHT PREFER TO HAVE THE U.S. SUPREME COURT FIRST REVIEW A SE VOLVG A EEDOM OF SPEECH FENSE THAT’S JOED WH RELIG FENSE,” SAID RENN, NOTG THAT THE HAWAII B&B SE WOULDN’T F THAT BILL. “[WH] THE FLOWER AND K S, THE OTHER SI IS ARGUG THAT THEIR EEDOM OF EXPRSN IS BEG VLATED—AND THAT’S OBVLY NOT AN ARGUMENT THAT ONE ULD CREDIBLY MAKE WHEN WE’RE TALKG ABOUT JT PROVIDG TRANSIENT ACMODATNS TO SOMEONE. THERE’S NO EXPRSN VOLVED THERE.”THE HAWAII B&B SE MIGHT NOT BE THE MOST LIKELY TO GET PROPELLED TO THE U.S. SUPREME COURT, THEN, BUT IS A TELLG SIGN OF THGS TO E: IF LGBT OPPONENTS SECURE A LICENSE TO DISCRIMATE THE AREA OF WEDDG SERVIC, THEY WILL HAVE THEIR FOOT A DOOR THAT THEY N THEN TRY TO WEDGE WI OPEN. SAMANTHA ALLEN
• CHICK FIL A, AND THE ANTI GAY COMPANI YOU WOULD NEVER BELIEVE YOU SUPPORT WH YOUR MONEY

7 COMPANI THAT DON'T SUPPORT GAY RIGHTS

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DON'T LET THAT RABOW LOGO FOOL YOU: THE 9 CORPORATNS DONATED MILLNS TO ANTI-GAY POLICIANS

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THE BS DON’T WANT YOUR MONEY IF YOU’RE LGBT, MARRIED OR NOTDECLINEDSOME BS WANT TO BE ABLE TO REFE SERVIC TO LGBT PEOPLE, MARRIED OR NOT, AS SHOWN THE DISTURBG URT SE OF A HAWAII B&B OWNER WHO TURNED AWAY A LBIAN UPLE.SAMANTHA ALLENUPDATED JUL. 15, 2018 7:53PM EDT / PUBLISHED JUL. 14, 2018 9:03PM EDT PHOTO ILLTRATN BY THE DAILY BEASTTHANKS TO THE MASTERPIECE CAKHOP SE, THE NVERSATN AROUND RELIG LIBERTY AND LGBT RIGHTS THE UNED STAT HAS BEEN FOCED MOSTLY ON WEDDG SERVIC RECENT MONTHS: SHOULD BAKERS BE ABLE TO CE RELIGN ORR TO NY WEDDG K TO SAME-SEX UPL? CAN FLORISTS REFE TO ARRANGE FLOWERS? WHAT ABOUT STATNERY SHOPS?BUT AS A RECENTLY-CID HAWAII SUPREME COURT SE SHOULD REMD , ANTI-LGBT GROUPS DON’T JT WANT TO MAKE LEGAL TO NY WEDDG SERVIC TO LGBT PEOPLE, THEY WANT TO MAKE LEGAL TO DISCRIMATE BASED ON SEXUAL ORIENTATN AND GENR INTY VIRTUALLY EVERY AREA OF PUBLIC LIFE.AS THE ASSOCIATED PRS REPORTED, THE HAWAII SUPREME COURT LAST WEEK REJECTED AN APPEAL OM PHYLLIS YOUNG, THE OWNER OF ALOHA BED & BREAKFAST, WHO HAD ARGUED THAT SHE SHOULD BE ABLE TO TURN AWAY A LBIAN UPLE BEE OF THEIR SEXUAL ORIENTATN. THE UPLE, DIANE CERVELLI AND TAEKO BUFORD, DIDN’T E TO HAWAII TO GET MARRIED—OR EVEN AS PART OF THEIR HONEYMOON. RATHER, AS LAMBDA LEGAL NOT, THEY HAD E TO HONOLULU TO VIS A IEND AND HER NEW BABY. THIS WAS A CLEAR-CUT SE OF A RELIG-BASED SERVICE REFAL THAT HAD NOTHG TO DO WH A WEDDG. BUT THE B&B OWNER WAS REPRENTED BY ALLIANCE DEFENDG FREEDOM, THE SAME GROUP THAT REPRENTED THE MASTERPIECE CAKHOP BAKER. ACRDG TO THE AP REPORT, YOUNG MAY APPEAL THE HAWAII SUPREME COURT’S CISN—ONE OF SEVERAL RELIG-BASED SERVICE REFAL S THAT ULD REACH THE UNED STAT SUPREME COURT THE NEXT FEW YEARS. WHAT MAK THE HAWAII SE STICK OUT, LAMBDA LEGAL SENR ATTORNEY PETER RENN TOLD ME, IS THAT HAD NO SPECIFIC TIE TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE—AND YET THE SAME GROUP OF LGBT OPPONENTS STILL BACKED .“THE OTHER S THAT WE’VE BEEN TALKG ABOUT VOLVG FLORISTS AND K CENTER AROUND A WEDDG,” HE SAID. “AND ANTI-GAY DISCRIMATN HAPPENS A BROAD RANGE OF NTEXTS, CLUDG OUTSI WEDDG SERVIC. THIS SE ILLTRAT THAT POT.”GROUPS LIKE ALLIANCE DEFENDG FREEDOM STAND TO BENEF OM ADVANCG WEDDG-FOCED URT S, MALY BEE SUCH S SEEM TO MORE SUCCSFULLY DRIVE A WEDGE THROUGH PUBLIC OPN.ON ONE HAND, PUBLIC RELIGN REARCH INSTUTE DATA SHOWS THAT 60 PERCENT OF AMERINS OPPOSE RELIG-BASED SERVICE REFALS, CLUDG NEARLY HALF OF THOSE WHO OPPOSE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE. BUT ON OTHER, A 2017 YOUGOV POLL FOUND THAT AMERINS WERE “TORN” ON THE MASTERPIECE CAKHOP QUTN: EVEN THOUGH A CLEAR MAJORY SUPPORTED THE COLORADO ANTI-DISCRIMATN STATUTE UNR WHICH THE BAKER WAS SUED, 57 PERCENT OF RPONNTS SAID THEY WOULD TAKE THE BAKER’S SI THE SUPREME COURT SE.IN OTHER WORDS, A NOT-SUBSTANTIAL NUMBER OF AMERINS GENERALLY OPPOSE NYG SERVICE TO AN LGBT PERSON BASED ON RELIG BELIEF—BUT WOULD ALLOW IF THE SERVICE WERE WEDDG-RELATED. THAT’S ONE REASON WHY S LIKE MASTERPIECE OR ARLENE’S FLOWERS WASHGTON STATE SEEM TO RECEIVE SUCH SPECIAL ATTENTN OM ANTI-LGBT GROUPS.“THEY MIGHT PREFER TO HAVE A SE THAT ALS WH WEDDG-RELATED SERVIC BEE WRONGLY SUGGTS THAT THE EXEMPTN THAT THE OTHER SI IS SEEKG WOULD BE NARROW BUT FACT WE KNOW WOULDN’T BE NARROW,” SAID RENN. “GIVG A BS A RIGHT TO DISCRIMATE BASED ON SEXUAL ORIENTATN IS NO WAY NFED TO WEDDG K AND FLOWERS FOR A WEDDG.”FOR PROOF, ONE NEED ONLY LOOK SOUTH TO MISSISSIPPI, WHERE AN EXTREME ANTI-LGBT LAW KNOWN AS HB 1523 REMAS EFFECT, PART THANKS TO THE SUPREME COURT’S JANUARY CISN NOT TO HEAR A CHALLENGE TO . THAT LAW SPECIFILLY ENUMERAT A SMALL HANDFUL OF RELIG BELIEFS—NAMELY THAT MARRIAGE IS BETWEEN A MAN AND A WOMAN AND THAT GENR N’T BE CHANGED—AND THEN EXPRSLY PROTECTS DISCRIMATN BASED ON THOSE BELIEFS. HB 1523 DON’T JT APPLY TO WEDDG-RELATED SERVIC; RATHER, N, AS THE DAILY BEAST’S JAY MICHAELSON NOTED, BE CED BY VIRTUALLY ANYONE: DOCTORS, THERAPISTS, LANDLORDS, EMPLOYERS, AND SO ON. “THE SLOPE IS VERY SLIPPERY AND THERE IS REALLY NO LIM TO THE EXEMPTNS THE OTHER SI WOULD SEEK IF RELIGN, FACT, GAVE ONE A TMP RD TO VLATE CIVIL RIGHTS LAWS” THE MISSISSIPPI LAW IS SUPPORTED BY THE SAME PEOPLE BEHD THE WEDDG-RELATED URT S THAT SEEM TO GARNER MORE PUBLIC AND NATNAL MEDIA ATTENTN. ALLIANCE DEFENDG FREEDOM, THE SAME LEGAL GROUP BEHD THE MASTERPIECE CAKHOP BAKER AND THE HAWAII B&B OWNER, “PLAYED A KEY ROLE” THE DRAFTG OF HB 1523, AS THE WASHGTON POST REPORTED. THAT LAW, MORE THAN ANYTHG, IS PROOF THAT LGBT OPPONENTS WON’T BE NTENT TO STOP AT WEDDG-RELATED SERVICE REFALS IF THEY START FDG SUCCS THE URTS, AS TIM TEEMAN OF THE DAILY BEAST HAS REPORTED.“THE SLOPE IS VERY SLIPPERY AND THERE IS REALLY NO LIM TO THE EXEMPTNS THE OTHER SI WOULD SEEK IF RELIGN, FACT, GAVE ONE A TMP RD TO VLATE CIVIL RIGHTS LAWS,” SAID RENN.BUT DON’T EXPECT BROAR RELIG-BASED REFAL S LIKE THE HAWAII B&B TO BE THE FIRST THAT LGBT OPPONENTS WILL TRY TO E TO RVE OUT ROOM FOR DISCRIMATN AT THE FERAL LEVEL. ONE REASON WHY MASTERPIECE CAKHOP AND ARLENE’S FLOWERS ARE SO APPEALG, AS RENN NOT, IS BEE ALLOWS ANTI-LGBT GROUPS TO ARGUE THAT K AND FLOWERS ARE NOT JT SERVIC, BUT SPEECH. IN NARROWLY SIDG WH THE CHRISTIAN BAKER MASTERPIECE, THE SUPREME COURT DODGED A DIRECT RECKONG WH THAT ARGUMENT, BUT REMAS ONE THAT LGBT OPPONENTS ARE EAGER TO HAVE.“THE OTHER SI MIGHT PREFER TO HAVE THE U.S. SUPREME COURT FIRST REVIEW A SE VOLVG A EEDOM OF SPEECH FENSE THAT’S JOED WH RELIG FENSE,” SAID RENN, NOTG THAT THE HAWAII B&B SE WOULDN’T F THAT BILL. “[WH] THE FLOWER AND K S, THE OTHER SI IS ARGUG THAT THEIR EEDOM OF EXPRSN IS BEG VLATED—AND THAT’S OBVLY NOT AN ARGUMENT THAT ONE ULD CREDIBLY MAKE WHEN WE’RE TALKG ABOUT JT PROVIDG TRANSIENT ACMODATNS TO SOMEONE. THERE’S NO EXPRSN VOLVED THERE.”THE HAWAII B&B SE MIGHT NOT BE THE MOST LIKELY TO GET PROPELLED TO THE U.S. SUPREME COURT, THEN, BUT IS A TELLG SIGN OF THGS TO E: IF LGBT OPPONENTS SECURE A LICENSE TO DISCRIMATE THE AREA OF WEDDG SERVIC, THEY WILL HAVE THEIR FOOT A DOOR THAT THEY N THEN TRY TO WEDGE WI OPEN. SAMANTHA ALLEN

Carl's burger cha — which has no problem sellg s food wh sex — was found by vehemently anti-choice, anti-gay csar Carl Karcher. Gay rights groups dubbed his hamburgers 'bigot burgers' after Karcher supported a 1978 proposn that would have allowed school boards to fire teachers who were gay or advoted homosexualy.

Levi'sThe jean manufacturer is a well-known supporter of marriage equaly, whose efforts rulted a 2010 GLAAD award for a pro-gay advertisement, and posive marks HRC's Buyer's Gui.

I assumed that mt have been verage om 2012, when folks boytted Chick-fil-A over some of the pany’s charable ntributns and polici and ments that Chick-fil-A’s CEO ma about gay no.

CHICK FIL A, AND THE ANTI GAY COMPANI YOU WOULD NEVER BELIEVE YOU SUPPORT WH YOUR MONEY

It’s crazy that this even needs to be said, but all LGBTQ people should boytt the Herage of Pri until they make sure none of the sponsors fund anti-gay legislatn. Even after gettg dged by nservative nsumers and gay rights activists, Bud Light pledged to keep supportg queer fights disguise a bigger tth: Corporatns, far om dictatg cultural mor om some palist Mount Olymp, reflect and -opt the social trends around 2018, as the Black Liv Matter movement gathered force, Nike created a ntroversial ad mpaign wh Col Kaepernick, the Black football player who famoly knelt durg the natnal anthem to prott police racism and btaly toward Black civilians. It meant that if a right-wg mob me for queer programmg on the platform, the pany uld pot to that cisn as fends hostg podsts that my lleagu ma, stuff like “The Two Prc, ” a fantasy show for kids about two prc who fall love, and “Gay Pri & Prejudice, ” a morn take on the Jane Aten classic.

Every Pri month, nsumers see their favore brands add rabow strip to their logos, fly flags om their headquarters buildgs and add attractive gay and lbian upl to their ads. Of urse, e next week, the lendar will flip to July, and 's buhbye to all the cute gays, sparkly rabows and boldly-lored banners flown by big bs.

Ne of the biggt, most LGBTQ-supportive rporatns Ameri gave about $1 ln or more each to anti-gay policians the last electn cycle. All of them voted to nfirm anti-gay members of the Tmp bet, voted to ny healthre to transgenr troops, and wouldn't sponsor or -sponsor any legislatn support of LGBTQ rights. Those ne rporatns wh perfect x sr which ma donatns to anti-gay policians om 2017 to 2018, are, orr om most to least:.