Dayton–The Human Rights Campaign Foundation, the nation’s largest homosexual political organization, released a study rating 319 companies based on their performance in adopting the organization’s agenda. HRC graded companies based on policies such as including sexual orientation in their non-discrimination statement and health benefits covering same-sex domestic partners.
NCR was one of 13 companies that scored 100 percent. Others include AMR Corp./ American Airlines; Apple, Eastman Kodak; Intel; J.P. Morgan Chase; Nike; and Xerox.
HRC Executive Director Elizabeth Birch said, “The HRC Corporate Equality Index is a tool that can help fair-minded Americans decide what products too buy, where to work and how to invest.”
However, Wal-Mart, one of the country’s largest corporations, received only a 14 percent showing that most Americans are not paying attention to the HRC’s standards of conduct.
Other low-scoring companies include Cracker Barrel; Emerson Electric; and Lockheed Martin all scored zero because they have no policies aimed at treating homosexuals, bisexuals and transgender employees with special privileges and because they have all resisted shareholder resolutions which urged the inclusion of sexual orientation in non-discrimination policies.
Exxon Mobil received a 14 percent. The report states Exxon received the score because for the last four years it “opposed a shareholder resolution that called on the company to include sexual orientation in its equal employment opportunity statement.” In the report, the company was also blasted for removing sexual orientation from Mobil’s non-discrimination policy and closing Mobil’s domestic partner benefits program to additional employees.
Such efforts to eliminate so-called discrimination angers people like David Miller, vice president at Citizens for Community Values. Miller said, “There is no institutionalized, wide-spread discrimination against homosexuals.”
Miller said that homosexual activist groups have piggybacked onto the plight of those who have legitimately fought for their civil rights.
Discrimination against homosexuals, said Miller, is nothing compared to the levels of African-American discrimination.
Miller added that there can be legitimate discrimination based on behavior. There is a difference, he said, between discrimination based on the content of someone’s character and discrimination based on skin color.
In an article published in the Citizens’ Courier, CCV’s quarterly publication, the group explains their stance. rights laws have been enacted in our country in order to protect classes of people from discrimination based on status - on immutable, distinguishing characteristics that have nothing to do with behavior…Homosexuals cannot be only by their behavior.”
Questions on the HRC website that companies had to answer include:
“In the past year, has your company advertised its products or services in any lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender media (magazine, newspaper, television)?
In the past year, has your company sponsored a lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender community event?
“In the past year, has your company made a contribution to an HIV/AIDS or women’s health organization or lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender community or political organization?”
HRC is attempting to force society to accept their behavior, said Miller. He believes that homosexual activists are trying to come through a back door under the disguise of civil rights.
Miller cited a Supreme Court decision that let stand an appellate court’s ruling allowing Cincinnati’s Issue Three, which disallowed preferential treatment based on sexual preference. Miller said that if you begin protecting sexual orientation, you end up protecting all types of sexual orientation such as bestiality and other “totally bizarre” forms of sex, which he said are “psychological disorders.”