Chick-fil-A's print has publicly fend his pany's ntroversial stance agast gay marriage. The fast-food cha is hardly the first bs to get ught the crossfire of culture wars.
Contents:
- 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
- CORPORATNS SLE BACK SHOWS OF PRI SUPPORT AMID ANTI-TRANS AND ANTI-GAY LAWS
- CHICK FIL A, AND THE ANTI GAY COMPANI YOU WOULD NEVER BELIEVE YOU SUPPORT WH YOUR MONEY
- 11 BS LEARS THAT PUT ANTI GAY COMPANI LIKE CHICK FIL A TO SHAME
- THE 9 PRI-CELEBRATG PANI DONATED LNS TO ANTI-GAY CONGRS MEMBERS
- AMAZON, AT&T AND FEDEX AMONG PANI THAT HAVE DONATED TO LAWMAKERS WHO BACK ANTI-GAY POLICI
- 18 ANTI-GAY GROUPS AND THEIR PROPAGANDA
- LIST OF ACTIVE ANTI-LGBTQ HATE GROUPSELIMATE HATE·FOLLOW6 M READ·APR 13, 2017--LISTENSHAREIN 2016, THE SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER (SPLC) LISTED 52 ACTIVE ANTI-LGBTQ HATE GROUPS THE U.S. AS SPLC STAT ON S WEBSE, “THE GROUPS ARE NOT LISTED ON THE BASIS OF OPPOSN TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE OR THE BELIEF THAT THE BIBLE SCRIB HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVY AS SFUL. ANTI-LGBT GROUPS ENGAGE C NAME-LLG AND DISSEMATE DISPARAGG PROPAGANDA AND FALSEHOODS ABOUT THIS POPULATN, SUCH AS THE CLAIM THAT GAY MEN MOLT CHILDREN AT VASTLY HIGHER RAT THAN STRAIGHT MEN.”OUT OF THE 52 ACTIVE ANTI-LGBTQ HATE GROUPS NATNALLY (FULL LIST AVAILABLE BELOW), SPLC HAS EXTENSIVELY PROFILED SIX OF THE MOST PROMENT ANIZATNS PEDDLG EXTREME, MALIC LI ABOUT LGBTQ PEOPLE. THE SIX GROUPS CLU:1. ALLIANCE DEFENDG FREEDOM (ADF)LOTN: STTSDALE, AZFOUND: 1994PRINT AND CEO: MICHAEL FARRISEXCERPT OM SPLC’S EXTREMIST PROFILE:FOUND BY SOME 30 LEARS OF THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT, THE ALLIANCE DEFENDG FREEDOM IS A LEGAL ADVOCY AND TRAG GROUP THAT SPECIALIZ SUPPORTG THE RECRIMALIZATN OF HOMOSEXUALY ABROAD, ENDG SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, AND GENERALLY MAKG LIFE AS DIFFICULT AS POSSIBLE FOR LGBT MUNI THE U.S. AND TERNATNALLY. DPE S REGULAR FAMATN OF LGBT PEOPLE, THE GROUP HAS MANAGED TO W SPECIAL ADVISORY STAT AT THE UNED NATNS, THE EUROPEAN UNN, AND WH THE ORGANIZATN OF AMERIN STAT.2. FAY REARCH COUNCIL (FRC)LOTN: WASHGTON, DCFOUND: 1983PRINT: TONY PERKSEXCERPT OM SPLC’S EXTREMIST PROFILE:THE FRC OFTEN MAK FALSE CLAIMS ABOUT THE LGBT MUNY BASED ON DISCREDED REARCH AND JUNK SCIENCE. THE TENTN IS TO NIGRATE LGBT PEOPLE AS THE ANIZATN BATTL AGAST SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, HATE CRIME LAWS, ANTI-BULLYG PROGRAMS AND THE REPEAL OF THE ARY’S “DON’T ASK, DON’T TELL” POLICY.TO MAKE THE SE THAT THE LGBT MUNY IS A THREAT TO AMERIN SOCIETY, THE FRC EMPLOYS A NUMBER OF “POLICY EXPERTS” WHOSE “REARCH” HAS ALLOWED THE FRC TO BE EXTREMELY ACTIVE POLILLY SHAPG PUBLIC BATE. ITS REARCH FELLOWS AND LEARS OFTEN TTIFY BEFORE CONGRS AND APPEAR THE MASTREAM MEDIA. IT ALSO WORKS AT THE GRASSROOTS LEVEL, NDUCTG OUTREACH TO PASTORS AN EFFORT TO “TRANSFORM THE CULTURE.”3. AMERIN FAY ASSOCIATN (AFA)LOTN: TUPELO, MSFOUND: 1977PRINT: TIM WILDMONEXCERPT OM SPLC’S EXTREMIST PROFILE:INIALLY FOUND AS THE NATNAL FERATN FOR DECENCY, THE AMERIN FAY ASSOCIATN (AFA) ORIGALLY FOCED ON WHAT NSIRED CENT TELEVISN PROGRAMMG AND PORNOGRAPHY. THE AFA SAYS PROMOT “TRADNAL MORAL VALU” MEDIA. A LARGE PART OF THAT WORK VOLV “BATG THE HOMOSEXUAL AGENDA” THROUGH VAR MEANS, CLUDG PUBLICIZG PANI THAT HAVE PRO-GAY POLICI AND ANIZG BOYTTS AGAST THEM. THE AFA HAS A VARIETY OF OUTLETS TO DISSEMATE S MSAGE, CLUDG THE AMERIN FAY RAD NETWORK, S ONLE ONE NEWS NOW AND THE MONTHLY AFA JOURNAL.4. LIBERTY COUNSELLOTN: ORLANDO, FLFOUND: 1989PRINT: MATHEW (MAT) STAVEREXCERPT OM SPLC’S EXTREMIST PROFILE:THE LIBERTY COUNSEL WAS FOUND BY NSERVATIVE ACTIVISTS MATHEW (“MAT”) STAVER — AN ATTORNEY AND FORMER AN AT LIBERTY UNIVERSY SCHOOL OF LAW — AND HIS WIFE ANA. THE COUNSEL BILLS SELF AS A NON-PROF LIGATN, TN AND POLICY ANIZATN THAT PROVIS LEGAL UNSEL AND PRO BONO ASSISTANCE S ALG WH RELIG LIBERTY, “THE SANCTY OF HUMAN LIFE” AND THE FAY. MAT STAVER CHAIRS THE COUNSEL; HIS WIFE ANA IS THE PRINT. THE LIBERTY COUNSEL SHAR A CLOSE AFFILIATN WH LIBERTY UNIVERSY (FOUND BY THE LATE JERRY FALWELL LYNCHBURG, VA.) , PECIALLY THE UNIVERSY’S SCHOOL OF LAW. THE PARTNERSHIP CLUS THE WASHGTON, D.C.-BASED LIBERTY CENTER FOR LAW AND POLICY, WHICH NDUCTS LEGAL REARCH AND WR ABOUT CURRENT LEGISLATN AND POLICI.5. TRADNAL VALU COALNLOTN: ANAHEIM, CA AND WASHGTON, DCFOUND: 1980PRINT: ANDREA LAFFERTYEXCERPT OM SPLC’S EXTREMIST PROFILE:PRBYTERIAN MISTER LOU SHELDON FOUND THE TRADNAL VALU COALN (TVC) 1980 TO SPREAD A “MORAL AND BEHAVR BASED UPON THE OLD AND NEW TTAMENTS” AND TO WARN AMERINS OF THE RISG “GAY THREAT.” THE TRADNAL VALU THE TVC FIGHTS FOR CLU: THE RIGHT TO LIFE (OPPOSN TO ABORTN AND THANASIA), CHASTY AND PATRTISM, ALONG WH OPPOSN TO HOMOSEXUALY, PORNOGRAPHY, THE TEACHG OF EVOLUTN PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND ILLEGAL IMMIGRATN. SHELDON ALSO OPPOS GAMBLG, EXCEPT WHEN HE DON’T — 2000, HE HELPED KILL THE INTER GAMBLG PROHIBN ACT AFTER THE TVC RECEIVED A $25,000 CHECK OM ELOTTERY, A CLIENT OF NOW-DISGRACED FORMER LOBBYIST JACK ABRAMOFF. THE TVC, WHOSE PRINT IS SHELDON’S DGHTER, ANDREA LAFFERTY, CLAIMS TO REPRENT OVER 43,000 CHRISTIAN CHURCH ACROSS THE UNED STAT.6. WTBORO BAPTIST CHURCH (WBC)
- OREO COOKI' GAY PRI BACKLASH: 25 COMPANI AND PRODUCTS BOYTTED FOR SUPPORTG LGBT RIGHTS
- HERE ARE 17 MAJOR COMPANI PROTTG STAT' NEW ANTI-GAY LAWS
- BEYOND CHICK-FIL-A: THE OTHER CORPORATNS DONATE TO ANTI-GAY CS TOO
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- BIG OIL PANI SAY THEY SUPPORT GAY RIGHTS, BUT OPERATE MORE THAN 40 UNTRI THAT CRIMALIZE SAME-SEX BEHAVR. IT LEAV SOME LGBTQ WORKERS UGHT BETWEEN 2 WORLDS.
- ANTI GAY COMPANI: GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT IS NOT WORTHY OF CIVIL RIGHTS STAT
- DAN CATHY, CHICK-FIL-A PRINT, ON ANTI-GAY STANCE: 'GUILTY AS CHARGED'
- CHICK-FIL-A GAY FLAP A 'WAKP CALL' FOR COMPANI
- UNIVERSAL MIC GROUP WORKER LLS THE PANY ANTI GAY MOURNG ROE V WA SE
- IS KENYA ABOUT TO FOLLOW UGANDA WH STRICT ANTI-GAY LEGISLATN?
- S/O BOY SUTS- ANTI-GAY COMPANI
- ANTI-LGBT ACTIVISTS ARE BOYTTG 58 DIFFERENT RETAILERS FOR BEG GAY-CLIVE
- YEARS LATER, CHICK-FIL-A STILL FEELS HEAT OM LGBTQ GROUPS OVER ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE REMARKS
7 COMPANI THAT DON'T SUPPORT GAY RIGHTS
Ne of the biggt, most LGBTQ-supportive rporatns Ameri gave about $1 ln or more each to anti-gay policians the last electn cycle. Compani like AT&T, UPS, Comst, Home Depot and General Electric. All told, their donatns totaled almost $15 ln. * anti gay companies *
" Moreover, before Exxon acquired Mobil 1999, Mobile had "polici to protect discrimatn agast gay men and lbians, and even offered benefs to same-sex upl, " but Exxon took that all away, acrdg to LGBT news se the Dallas perhaps a new low for the pany, the Human Right Campaign gave the massive employer a sre of below zero on s 2012 Corporate Equaly Inx, which measur LGBT equaly and workplace protectns. Wh a nservative chairman and recent phback for pullg a pro-gay-marriage shirt om s shelv, Urban Outfters reportedly, acrdg to an article om SFist, “donat 100 percent of s ‘Marriage Equaly’ t-shirt sal to EQCA and NCLR, ” which are two group leadg the charge agast the recent Supreme Court challenge on legalizg same-sex s history of flip-floppg on the gay marriage issue, ’s bt to stay aware of Urban Outfters’ current stance. Most LGBTQ nsumers are aware of pani such as Hobby Lobby, Chick-Fil-A (Chick-Fil-A as a pany has vowed to disntue support for anti-gay measur through s foundatn, but s CEO, Dan Cathy, is still a keen anti-LGBTQ+ donor) and Publix that ntue wh ratgs of zero on the Human Rights Campaign's Corporate Equaly Inx (HRC CEI), a natnal benchmarkg tool on rporate polici, practic, and benefs pertent to lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer employe.
In that era of Corporate Avoidance to avoid backlash om mastream nsumers, LGBTQ+ people stggled to live their often-closeted liv as the foils for GOP's Moral Majory power grab an era of Don't Ask, Don't Tell, the Defense of Marriage Act, and what Frank Rich scribed 1999 as "[t]he homophobic epimic of '98, which spiked wh the October murr of Matthew Shepard.
“The key issue that Bud Light tapped to was the fact that they didn’t unrstand their re dience and know enough about them,” Hodson, a gay man, told CNN about the ntroversy that began when the Anhser-Bch beer brand sent fluencer Dylan Mulvaney a n of beer. Gay Water might not have the ep pockets pared to s petors, like Whe Claw, but “even at small sle, pani of many siz are havg succs makg spir-based seltzers and premixed cktails,” Bryan Roth, an analyst for Feel Goods Company and edor of the alhol beverage newsletter, Sightl+, told CNN.
DON'T LET THAT RABOW LOGO FOOL YOU: THE 9 CORPORATNS DONATED MILLNS TO ANTI-GAY POLICIANS
Compani have been acced of claimg to support Pri whout changg behd the scen. As more stat pass anti-trans and anti-gay laws, some pani are endg even the appearance of support. * anti gay companies *
“There’s lots of space the spir-based seltzer tegory which Gay Water n play, pecially if the brand n offer a cultural or emotnal nnectn that will feel more excg than the prospect of another peapple-flavored vodka seltzer om natnal or ternatnal rporatns,” Roth said. So they're not really puttg a whole lot of thought and tentn rollg out the mpaigns, which not only alienat the LGBTQ nsumers that they had, but also people who are, you know, possibly transphobic, homophobic or jt don't unrstand what the pot is of supportg pri.
CORPORATNS SLE BACK SHOWS OF PRI SUPPORT AMID ANTI-TRANS AND ANTI-GAY LAWS
If recent outrage about Chick-Fil-A's open, "guilty-as-charged" support of tradnal marriage or rabow Oreos has you wonrg which pani are supportg gay rights and which are mpaigng agast equaly, you’re right to be askg the… * anti gay companies *
While the dollar amount may not be on par wh Chick-Fil-A’s ntributns to the “e, ” what galled many people was the seemg hypocrisy of Hayne’s sellg anti Prop-8 shirts 2008 (which were pulled om the shelv one of Urban’s first ntroversi) and otherwise panrg to the gay muny, and then g those profs to fund polil actn agast them.
Among the “tradnal moral valu” the anizatn claims to promote are falsehoods about AIDS as a “gay plague, ” furtherg the myth that people who are gay were rponsible for the Holot, that the ernment is promotg LGBTQ behavr, and that pro-LGBTQ anizatns are anti-Christian hate groups. The group seeks to “promote and fend the Biblil view of marriage and fay” by spreadg falsehoods about LGBTQ “recment” efforts and a nebulo LGBTQ “agenda, ” as well as providg a theologil gloss for anti-gay legislatn proposed the Uned Stat, Uganda, and elsewhere. For this reason, the anizatn has drawn fire om the Amerin Psychologil Associatn, om the rearcher on one of their foundatnal papers–who has sce disavowed his own rearch – and om the prs, who pot out that the ex-gay anizatn has a spic lack of ex-gay members.
CHICK FIL A, AND THE ANTI GAY COMPANI YOU WOULD NEVER BELIEVE YOU SUPPORT WH YOUR MONEY
Dpe givg lns to anti-gay policians, the HRC gave the pani a perfect 100 sre. * anti gay companies *
Posive Approach To Healthy Sexualy (PATH): Recently rebrand om s former name, Posive Alternativ to Homosexualy, PATH lls self “a non-prof ecumenil aln of anizatns that believe tradnal fay valu based upon time-honored Biblil prcipl, ” and stat that s goal is “to promote healthy sexualy and tradnal fay valu, adherg to the sacred venant of marriage between one man and one woman. General Mills: In June, CEO Ken Powell hosted a functn attend by over 400 LGBT profsnals where he, Vice Print for Global Diversy and Incln Ken Charl, and Vice Print of Corporate Communitns Tom Forsythe spoke out agast a proposed nstutnal amendment that would ban gay marriage the state of Mnota.
The pany had prevly sponsored an amic brief California explag the enomic benefs of gay marriage as well as signg on to sponsor a program on Logo, a gay channel owned by MTV, and signg a marketg partnership wh Milk, Foc Featur’ bpic on the sla gay polician om San Francis, Harvey Milk.
11 BS LEARS THAT PUT ANTI GAY COMPANI LIKE CHICK FIL A TO SHAME
A small terie of groups now prise the hard re of the anti-gay movement * anti gay companies *
Via: The most recent addn to the pro-gay club, Via jt this week signed off on an amic brief that oppos the Defense of Marriage Act Although the brief discs the negative fancial implitns of DOMA, Via ma a statement explag that their opposn to DOMA was primarily motivated by their sire for equaly. DeMar has modified that dictum slightly the past, sayg that homosexuals wouldn’t all be executed unr a “renstcted” ernment, but that he did believe that the ocsnal executn of “sodom” would serve society well bee “the law that requir the ath penalty for homosexual acts effectively driv the perversn of homosexualy unrground, back to the closet. It has lled the ia of allowg gays to serve openly the ary “evil”; opposed hate crim legislatn (which many relig-right groups falsely assert would make easy to send pastors to prison for nmng homosexualy); and raged agast a judge’s overturng of California’s Proposn 8, which had validated same-sex marriag.
Although is somewhat benign by parison, the CADC has an advisory board that clus some of the untry’s most hard-le anti-gay activists: Lou Sheldon, head of the Tradnal Valu Coaln (see below); Donald Wildmon, the founr of the Amerin Fay Associatn (above); and O’Neal Dozier, a pastor who wrote his 2008 book that “[h]omosexualy not only spreads disease and ntraliz God’s mand, ” but also “stroys fai.
THE 9 PRI-CELEBRATG PANI DONATED LNS TO ANTI-GAY CONGRS MEMBERS
25 Compani And Products Faced Wh Boytts After Gay Rights Support * anti gay companies *
” Last year, CWA acced the Gay, Lbian, and Straight Edutn Network (GLSEN), a group that works to stop anti-gay bullyg schools, of g that missn as a ver to promote homosexualy schools, addg that “teachg stunts om a young age that the homosexual liftyle is perfectly natural … will [e them to] velop to adults who are sensized to the harmful, immoral realy of sexual viance. Both Dailey and Sprigg have phed false accatns lkg gay men to pedophilia: Sprigg has wrten that most men who engage same-sex child moltatn “intify themselv as homosexual or bisexual, ” and Dailey and Sprigg voted an entire chapter of their 2004 book Gettg It Straight to siar material. In a 1999 publitn (Homosexual Behavr and Pedophilia) that has sce disappeared om s webse, the FRC claimed that “one of the primary goals of the homosexual rights movement is to abolish all age of nsent laws and to eventually regnize pedophil as the ‘prophets’ of a new sexual orr, ” acrdg to unrefuted rearch by AMERICAblog.
30, 2010, bate on MSNBC’s “Hardball wh Chris Matthews” between Perks and the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Mark Potok, Perks fend FRC’s associatn of gay men wh pedophilia, sayg: “If you look at the Amerin College of Pediatricians, they say the rearch is overwhelmg that homosexualy pos a danger to children.
AMAZON, AT&T AND FEDEX AMONG PANI THAT HAVE DONATED TO LAWMAKERS WHO BACK ANTI-GAY POLICI
This month, rporatns are plasterg their social media avatars wh rabows, sponsorg Pri paras, and clarg their unwaverg mment to the LGBTQ muny. Many of the pani, however, are spendg lns supportg the mpaigns of anti-gay policians at the feral and state level. * anti gay companies *
Started 1987 by psychologist Pl Cameron, the Fay Rearch Instute (FRI) has bee the anti-gay movement’s ma source for what Cameron claims is “cuttg-edge rearch” — but is, fact, pletely discreded junk science phed out by a man who has been nmned by three profsnal anizatns. In 1985, the Amerin Soclogil Associatn adopted a rolutn sayg Cameron “has nsistently misterpreted and misreprented soclogil rearch on sexualy” and “repeatedly mpaigned for the abrogatn of the civil rights of lbians and gay men”; the followg year, the same group formally nmned Cameron for that misreprentatn of rearch.
Camenker, who has long foced on the purported “homosexual agenda” the schools and equently claimed gays are dangero to kids, has repeatedly ced discreded claims om anizatns like the Natnal Associatn for Rearch and Therapy of Homosexualy that lk homosexualy and pedophilia. ” Wh regard to LGBT teen suicis, TVC, unr the headle “Homosexual Urban Legends, ” claims that “[t]he ld, hard fact is that teens who are stgglg wh homosexual feelgs are more likely to be sexually molted by a homosexual school unselor or teacher than to m suici over their feelgs of spair. The TVC also mak assertns on s webse about disproportnate homosexual pedophilia and attacks the ia that people are born gay and the claim that gays want the right to marry for the same reasons that heterosexuals do — the TVC suggts the real purpose of marriage equaly is to stroy the ncept of marriage and ultimately replace altogether wh group sex and polygamy.
18 ANTI-GAY GROUPS AND THEIR PROPAGANDA
Chick-Fil-A Print On Alleged Anti-Gay Stance: 'Guilty As Charged' * anti gay companies *
Alliance Defendg Freedom (ADF)Lotn: Sttsdale, AZFound: 1994Print and CEO: Michael FarrisExcerpt om SPLC’s Extremist Profile:Found by some 30 lears of the Christian Right, the Alliance Defendg Freedom is a legal advocy and trag group that specializ supportg the recrimalizatn of homosexualy abroad, endg same-sex marriage, and generally makg life as difficult as possible for LGBT muni the U.
Tradnal Valu CoalnLotn: Anaheim, CA and Washgton, DCFound: 1980Print: Andrea LaffertyExcerpt om SPLC’s Extremist Profile:Prbyterian mister Lou Sheldon found the Tradnal Valu Coaln (TVC) 1980 to spread a “moral and behavr based upon the Old and New Ttaments” and to warn Amerins of the risg “gay threat. Typified by s slogan, “God Hat Fags, ” WBC is known for s harsh anti-gay beliefs and the c signs s members rry at their equent addn to the above six, there are 46 other anti-LGBTQ hate groups active natnally (via SPLC):Abidg Tth MistriSprgfield, MAAmerin Collegeof PediatriciansGaville, FLAmerins for TthAbout HomosexualyNaperville, ILAmerin VisnPowr Sprgs, GAATLAH World Missnary Church (All The Land Anoted Holy)New York, NYCamp Mistry USA, TheTerre Hte, INCenter for Fay and Human Rights (C-FAM)Washgton, DCNew York, NYChalcedon FoundatnValleco, CACizens for Communy ValuCcnati, OHConservative Republins of TexasHoton, TXD.
LIST OF ACTIVE ANTI-LGBTQ HATE GROUPSELIMATE HATE·FOLLOW6 M READ·APR 13, 2017--LISTENSHAREIN 2016, THE SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER (SPLC) LISTED 52 ACTIVE ANTI-LGBTQ HATE GROUPS THE U.S. AS SPLC STAT ON S WEBSE, “THE GROUPS ARE NOT LISTED ON THE BASIS OF OPPOSN TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE OR THE BELIEF THAT THE BIBLE SCRIB HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVY AS SFUL. ANTI-LGBT GROUPS ENGAGE C NAME-LLG AND DISSEMATE DISPARAGG PROPAGANDA AND FALSEHOODS ABOUT THIS POPULATN, SUCH AS THE CLAIM THAT GAY MEN MOLT CHILDREN AT VASTLY HIGHER RAT THAN STRAIGHT MEN.”OUT OF THE 52 ACTIVE ANTI-LGBTQ HATE GROUPS NATNALLY (FULL LIST AVAILABLE BELOW), SPLC HAS EXTENSIVELY PROFILED SIX OF THE MOST PROMENT ANIZATNS PEDDLG EXTREME, MALIC LI ABOUT LGBTQ PEOPLE. THE SIX GROUPS CLU:1. ALLIANCE DEFENDG FREEDOM (ADF)LOTN: STTSDALE, AZFOUND: 1994PRINT AND CEO: MICHAEL FARRISEXCERPT OM SPLC’S EXTREMIST PROFILE:FOUND BY SOME 30 LEARS OF THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT, THE ALLIANCE DEFENDG FREEDOM IS A LEGAL ADVOCY AND TRAG GROUP THAT SPECIALIZ SUPPORTG THE RECRIMALIZATN OF HOMOSEXUALY ABROAD, ENDG SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, AND GENERALLY MAKG LIFE AS DIFFICULT AS POSSIBLE FOR LGBT MUNI THE U.S. AND TERNATNALLY. DPE S REGULAR FAMATN OF LGBT PEOPLE, THE GROUP HAS MANAGED TO W SPECIAL ADVISORY STAT AT THE UNED NATNS, THE EUROPEAN UNN, AND WH THE ORGANIZATN OF AMERIN STAT.2. FAY REARCH COUNCIL (FRC)LOTN: WASHGTON, DCFOUND: 1983PRINT: TONY PERKSEXCERPT OM SPLC’S EXTREMIST PROFILE:THE FRC OFTEN MAK FALSE CLAIMS ABOUT THE LGBT MUNY BASED ON DISCREDED REARCH AND JUNK SCIENCE. THE TENTN IS TO NIGRATE LGBT PEOPLE AS THE ANIZATN BATTL AGAST SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, HATE CRIME LAWS, ANTI-BULLYG PROGRAMS AND THE REPEAL OF THE ARY’S “DON’T ASK, DON’T TELL” POLICY.TO MAKE THE SE THAT THE LGBT MUNY IS A THREAT TO AMERIN SOCIETY, THE FRC EMPLOYS A NUMBER OF “POLICY EXPERTS” WHOSE “REARCH” HAS ALLOWED THE FRC TO BE EXTREMELY ACTIVE POLILLY SHAPG PUBLIC BATE. ITS REARCH FELLOWS AND LEARS OFTEN TTIFY BEFORE CONGRS AND APPEAR THE MASTREAM MEDIA. IT ALSO WORKS AT THE GRASSROOTS LEVEL, NDUCTG OUTREACH TO PASTORS AN EFFORT TO “TRANSFORM THE CULTURE.”3. AMERIN FAY ASSOCIATN (AFA)LOTN: TUPELO, MSFOUND: 1977PRINT: TIM WILDMONEXCERPT OM SPLC’S EXTREMIST PROFILE:INIALLY FOUND AS THE NATNAL FERATN FOR DECENCY, THE AMERIN FAY ASSOCIATN (AFA) ORIGALLY FOCED ON WHAT NSIRED CENT TELEVISN PROGRAMMG AND PORNOGRAPHY. THE AFA SAYS PROMOT “TRADNAL MORAL VALU” MEDIA. A LARGE PART OF THAT WORK VOLV “BATG THE HOMOSEXUAL AGENDA” THROUGH VAR MEANS, CLUDG PUBLICIZG PANI THAT HAVE PRO-GAY POLICI AND ANIZG BOYTTS AGAST THEM. THE AFA HAS A VARIETY OF OUTLETS TO DISSEMATE S MSAGE, CLUDG THE AMERIN FAY RAD NETWORK, S ONLE ONE NEWS NOW AND THE MONTHLY AFA JOURNAL.4. LIBERTY COUNSELLOTN: ORLANDO, FLFOUND: 1989PRINT: MATHEW (MAT) STAVEREXCERPT OM SPLC’S EXTREMIST PROFILE:THE LIBERTY COUNSEL WAS FOUND BY NSERVATIVE ACTIVISTS MATHEW (“MAT”) STAVER — AN ATTORNEY AND FORMER AN AT LIBERTY UNIVERSY SCHOOL OF LAW — AND HIS WIFE ANA. THE COUNSEL BILLS SELF AS A NON-PROF LIGATN, TN AND POLICY ANIZATN THAT PROVIS LEGAL UNSEL AND PRO BONO ASSISTANCE S ALG WH RELIG LIBERTY, “THE SANCTY OF HUMAN LIFE” AND THE FAY. MAT STAVER CHAIRS THE COUNSEL; HIS WIFE ANA IS THE PRINT. THE LIBERTY COUNSEL SHAR A CLOSE AFFILIATN WH LIBERTY UNIVERSY (FOUND BY THE LATE JERRY FALWELL LYNCHBURG, VA.) , PECIALLY THE UNIVERSY’S SCHOOL OF LAW. THE PARTNERSHIP CLUS THE WASHGTON, D.C.-BASED LIBERTY CENTER FOR LAW AND POLICY, WHICH NDUCTS LEGAL REARCH AND WR ABOUT CURRENT LEGISLATN AND POLICI.5. TRADNAL VALU COALNLOTN: ANAHEIM, CA AND WASHGTON, DCFOUND: 1980PRINT: ANDREA LAFFERTYEXCERPT OM SPLC’S EXTREMIST PROFILE:PRBYTERIAN MISTER LOU SHELDON FOUND THE TRADNAL VALU COALN (TVC) 1980 TO SPREAD A “MORAL AND BEHAVR BASED UPON THE OLD AND NEW TTAMENTS” AND TO WARN AMERINS OF THE RISG “GAY THREAT.” THE TRADNAL VALU THE TVC FIGHTS FOR CLU: THE RIGHT TO LIFE (OPPOSN TO ABORTN AND THANASIA), CHASTY AND PATRTISM, ALONG WH OPPOSN TO HOMOSEXUALY, PORNOGRAPHY, THE TEACHG OF EVOLUTN PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND ILLEGAL IMMIGRATN. SHELDON ALSO OPPOS GAMBLG, EXCEPT WHEN HE DON’T — 2000, HE HELPED KILL THE INTER GAMBLG PROHIBN ACT AFTER THE TVC RECEIVED A $25,000 CHECK OM ELOTTERY, A CLIENT OF NOW-DISGRACED FORMER LOBBYIST JACK ABRAMOFF. THE TVC, WHOSE PRINT IS SHELDON’S DGHTER, ANDREA LAFFERTY, CLAIMS TO REPRENT OVER 43,000 CHRISTIAN CHURCH ACROSS THE UNED STAT.6. WTBORO BAPTIST CHURCH (WBC)
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Their personal donatns do not reflect the attus of the pany, but their actns have still garnered ntroversy and appeals to boytt their Outfters/Free People/Anthropologie -founr and CEO Richard Hayne is a known nservative who has donated over $13, 000 to Rick Santom, who openly oppos gay rights. Among those exampl are a parison of same-sex marriage to a marriage between “a man and his horse”; llg the “It Gets Better” project, an iative signed to help LGBTQ young people pe wh bullyg and margalizatn, “disgtg” and a “ncerted effort” to rec kids to the gay “liftyle”; and claimg that the “blood” of “young Mar” would be on the hands of lawmakers who voted to repeal the ary’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” Fay Rearch Council did not rpond to a requt for ment. Another “anti-LGBTQ hate group” named the report is the Alliance Defendg Freedom, a nservative Christian legal group wh attorneys across the untry and a long track rerd of ligatg agast LGBTQ a lawsu that ma natnal headl last year, ADF reprented Jack Phillips, a Christian baker who refed to make a ke for a gay weddg, a narrow victory at the Supreme Court.
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“Along the same l that you see today, they put forward stereotyp and vilify, pecially gay men, as predators and predators of children, and e that to jtify the tactics of takg rights way om LGBTQ people, ” Fetner ced as an early example the activism of Ana Bryant Florida.
Support for gay employe, however, be more plited outsi the Wtern regns home to large oil and gas poss, such as Nigeria and Sdi Arabia, outlaw same-sex relatns and certa forms of genr exprsn, puttg big energy pani wh global operatns and tens of thoands of employe a challengg posn. Antidiscrimatn polici 'necsary but not sufficient'Compani wh clearly fed nondiscrimatn polici and valu n offer refuge and visibily to LGBTQ workers wh opprsive untri, Reid, a Malaysia-based engeer at a multatnal oil pany, told Bs Insir that while she uldn't talk about beg gay wh her fay, she was out to her clost workers.
The ia of fg gay rights as the Civil Rights issue of our time is disrpectful, offensive, and perhaps even racist towards mori who were discrimated agast and often treated btally -- due to ethnic inti clearly fed at birth, rather than by liftyle actns. If the gay and lbian rights movement is a Civil Rights issue, then is the first time Amerin history that a Civil Rights issue has been fed on the basis of tennci, leadg a particular group of society to perform actns and there embrace a particular inty and liftyle. If not approvg of the homosexual liftyle is homophobic, is not “ctaphobic” for one to ny the right of a grown man to have a passnate monogamo sexual relatnship wh his fully-grown blogil is only but a mere sample of the large range of possibili that we mt nsir if fact we em gay rights as the “Civil Rights issue” of our generatn.
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“I feel like that’s the burn a lot of gay people live wh — tryg to be perfect for straight people, ” he job requir equent teractn wh the players and the achg staff — addn to his duti as play-by-play announcer, Bach also is the ma public relatns ntact for the team — and he said he hadn’t fully relaxed any of them. Mrer/Frericksburg NatnalsThat feelg is somewhat “self-flicted, ” Bach said, but he believ the solutn is to brg more openly gay people to sports and create a safe environment for those who are already there but have felt necsary to hi their League Baseball has touted self as a place of clivy.
Many fear such attacks may crease after neighbourg Uganda recently passed one of the world’s strictt anti-gay laws, and some policians Kenya now want to do the the party, therefore, atten only changed to lourful stum once they joed the baret si, but some guts and dignari clearly still wanted to distance themselv om the proceedgs. ” the 24-year-old were ed moured to be armed police and telligence officers the crowd: tough-lookg men civilian cloth, perhaps gatherg rmatn, but also ready to protect the crowd if while gay sex remas illegal the East Ain natn unr laws datg back to the lonial era, the gatherg had the tac acceptance of the ernment and police.
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It will be an act of gross cency to take part a gay para or public same-sex displays of amoro backg such legislatn across the regn ame as cultural battle to save Ain valu and sovereignty, which they say are unr asslt by Wtern prsure to pulate on gay rights. ‘A hateful piece of legislatn’Peter Kaluma, a parliamentarian the natnal assembly behd the bill, told the Telegraph the LGBT muny was engrossed a “filthy perversn” fuelled by Wtern Kaluma, a legal scholar, said his proposal aimed to “prohib homosexualy and same sex marriage and related activi” and proscribe “activi that seek to advance, promote or fund homosexualy and unnatural sexual acts” bill was part of a “global ph back agast the LGBTQ movement even the USA and most Wtern European untri, ” he bill has provoked ep unease among the untry’s gay and lbian muny.
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“It is a hateful piece of legislatn that will tly make the liv of queer Kenyans unbearable if passed, ” Ante Atieno of the Natnal Gay and Lbian Human Rights Commissn mpaign group said last is also at odds wh a supreme urt lg earlier this year that the ernment was wrong to block a gay rights anisatn om registerg as an NGO. Partly the engagement was pragmatic, as the ernment reached out as part of efforts to tackle at the party, cludg Mike, were ls said the Ugandan legislatn had st a cloud over gay life Kenya, as had the high-profile murr January of Edw Chiloba, a gay rights activist who was killed by a former boyiend.
A group of human rights anisatns Ai renewed their lls this week for the Amerin multatnal Intel Corporatn to dismiss a senr employee over his alleged volvement fanng the growg anti-LGBTQ+ sentiment several untri, cludg Kenya and a petn, supported by more than a dozen anisatns, the rights groups claim that Greg Slater, Intel’s vice-print of global regulatory affairs, has been “actively rponsible for exportg, fancg, and spreadg hate, homophobia” on the ntent for s, through the Amerin nservative anisatn, Fay Watch activists acce Fay Watch Internatnal, which is n by Slater’s wife, Sharon, of lobbyg high-rankg Ain lears and lawmakers to block LGBTQ rights – allegatns that have dogged the Slaters for years. “Fay Watch Internatnal has sponsored trips for policians and diplomats om Kenya, Uganda and other Ain untri to … tra them on their extremist agenda agast homosexualy, sexualy tn and reproductive rights, ” said Jedidah Maa of the Tst for Indigeno Culture and Health, the Kenyan non-prof that filed the petn. They attend a nference Entebbe focg on global challeng that threaten Ain fai and valuGreg Slater and Fay Watch Internatnal did not immediately rpond to requts for ment, but on s webse, the anisatn tegorilly ni the claims sayg: “Dpe media reports to the ntrary, Fay Watch has never advoted for or lobbied favour of Uganda’s anti-homosexual bill, nor were we ever volved promotg Uganda’s prev anti-homosexual bill – fact, we opposed them both.
BIG OIL PANI SAY THEY SUPPORT GAY RIGHTS, BUT OPERATE MORE THAN 40 UNTRI THAT CRIMALIZE SAME-SEX BEHAVR. IT LEAV SOME LGBTQ WORKERS UGHT BETWEEN 2 WORLDS.
“There is nothg anic about the wave of anti-homosexualy bills we are seeg, ” said Muthoni Ngugi, the head of the East Ai Legal Service Network, one of the anisatns supportg the an ter-parliamentary nference on “fay valu and sovereignty”, hosted by Fay Watch Internatnal Uganda April, and attend by lears om 22 Ain untri – the Kenyan MP Peter Kaluma vowed to table an anti-gay bill the untry’s parliament. Compani such as Comst/NBCUniversal, AT&T, and Walgreens all purport to be supportive of LGBTQ+ people -- but they and other pro-LGBTQ+ bs have donated to Florida policians who are backg the state's notor "don't say gay" news webse Popular Informatn reviewed mpaign ntributns om 2020 onward to the bill's sponsors the Florida Hoe and Senate, the senators who voted for the bill mtee, and Gov.
ANTI GAY COMPANI: GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT IS NOT WORTHY OF CIVIL RIGHTS STAT
Walgreens' ntributns of $28, 000 were divid among DeSantis and other Florida policians who support the "don't say gay" pani and associatns that have donated to "don't say gay" supporters clu Anhser-Bch ($75, 000), Charter Communitns ($102, 000), Publix ($125, 000), and the Natnal Associatn of Realtors ($100, 000). Chick-fil-A, the fast-food cha famo for ied chicken sandwich, is ntug to tch cricism om the LGBTQ muny for anti-gay marriage remarks s CEO ma seven years this week, the cy uncil San Anton, Texas, voted to ban the cha om openg a rtrant the ternatnal airport gay-rights supporters cricized Louisville's mor-league soccer anchise for nng a promotn wh Chick-fil-A that offered ee sandwich if the team story:Louisville Cy FC fac LGBTQ backlash over partnership wh Chick-fil-ARints also recently chastised the Ccnati Reds for partnerg wh the cha to offer ee chicken sandwich wh a drk purchase to fans wearg Reds gear on Openg Day Universy New Jersey drew headl late last year when elimated Chick-fil-A om a list of potential on-mp vendors bee stunts protted over the cha's reputatn for an anti-gay bias. ' And I pray God's mercy on our generatn that has such a priful, arrogant attu to thk that we have the dacy to fe what marriage is about, " Cathy said a rad pany's charable foundatn, The Wshape Foundatn, has fund nservative Christian groups, cludg the Fay Rearch Foundatn; Alliance Defendg Freedom, which supports re-crimalizg homosexualy; and Exod Internatnal, a now-funct group known for "nversn therapy" tend to make gay people bee pany has repeatedly said don't support any polil agenda on fai and marriage, but the fact that Cathy didn't apologize for his statements has been a long-standg plat wh LGBTQ activists.