WND Lists ‘Gayest’ Companies
The Worldnutdaily posts their annual list of the nation’s “gayest” companies. Actually, it’s just a reprinting of the list from the Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index. But while the HRC does this to reward companies that value equality, the WND does it to tell its readers which companies to avoid.
And as I wrote long ago, the list is long — though not as long as it was then because HRC changed their criteria and made it more difficult to get a perfect score. So while more than 300 companies once scored a 100 on their scale, now only 109 do. But I fully agree that the bigots should not buy anything from any company that actually treats gay people like human beings.
They should stop using any medications made by Bristol-Myers Squibb, Eli Lilly, GlaxoSmithKline and Pfizer. And any medical instrument made by Medtronics. They should probably stop using the internet completely, since Google and Yahoo both get perfect 100s, as did Apple and Microsoft. And the entire internet uses routers made by Cisco, which means all those emails they forward to each other every day about how Obama eats Christian babies for dinner every night are actually catching The Gay as they pass through those routers.
They even have to give up seemingly wholesome things like Disney movies and Avon. They can’t each anything from General Mills, Kellogg’s or Kraft foods, so they’re gonna have to hope for some of that manna. Hell, they can’t even join the military because major defense contractors like Raytheon and Lockheed Martin score a perfect 100 on the sodomy scale.
richardelguru:
November 19th, 2012 at 10:54 am
So it’s Chick-fil-A all round… (and they probably will be round if that’s all they eat)
Doug Little:
November 19th, 2012 at 10:57 am
Given the avalanche of acceptance of gay people, what’s the under/over on when these wingnuts figure out they are on the wrong side of history and throw the whole “I hate gays” mantra down the memory hole? I’ll start it at the 150 year mark.
Bronze Dog:
November 19th, 2012 at 10:59 am
Appropriate that boycotting those companies would send them hurtling backwards on the tech tree. It’s exactly what they want, but thankfully we don’t have to be dragged along with them.
Tualha:
November 19th, 2012 at 11:04 am
Aside from the Cisco routers, there is the sendmail program, almost universally used to route email. The developer of that program, Eric Allman, is gay, and once said “There is some sort of perverse pleasure in knowing that it’s basically impossible to send a piece of hate mail through the Internet without its being touched by a gay program. That’s kind of funny.”
Gregory in Seattle:
November 19th, 2012 at 11:06 am
Wait, I thought boycotts were always anti-capitalism campaigns called only by atheist commies trying to destroy American society?
fifthdentist:
November 19th, 2012 at 11:08 am
But three months ago they were wailing about boycotts being a form of censorship and anti-capitalist and unamurkan.
Doug Little:
November 19th, 2012 at 11:15 am
Well if you want to talk about gay pioneers in computing look no further than Alan Turing, anything that runs a algorithmic program should be boycotted as well. Time to go and live with the Amish.
peterh:
November 19th, 2012 at 11:20 am
Although very conservative by general standards, the Amish have no truck with the kind of hate that’s behind Worldnut. (They’re not sympathetic towards GLBT, they just don’t spew nonsensical hatred.)
Katherine Lorraine, Chaton de la Mort:
November 19th, 2012 at 11:35 am
@Gregory in Seattle:
No no. It’s only okay to boycott companies if you’re doing it because they’re evil gay-loving commies. If it’s a wonderful Godly company, then boycotting them is wrong!
Stevarious, Public Health Problem:
November 19th, 2012 at 11:37 am
Being cut off from your family and everyone you’ve ever known is pretty brutal, and shunning is what the Amish do to gays.
I don’t think the distinction of ‘doesn’t shout it from the rooftops’ is worth all that much when they still treat gays in their own families as badly as the some of the worst of the other fundies. It’s still nonsensical hatred.
regexp:
November 19th, 2012 at 11:43 am
I’ve posted this before – from Eric Allman – the opening gay creator of sendmail:
Its also funny that this morning I received the yearly notice from the AFA for the companies to avoid due to the non-existant war on christmas. The company not on the list? Chick fil a. But all their marketing materials exclusively use “happy holidays”.
shouldbeworking:
November 19th, 2012 at 11:48 am
The bigots should refuse police, fire and paramedic services too. One of the respinders might be gay and infect the righteous.
marcus:
November 19th, 2012 at 12:14 pm
@12 and if the respinders aren’t the responders might be. (Not to mention the respanders.:)
criticaldragon1177:
November 19th, 2012 at 1:54 pm
Ed Brayton,
The truth of the matter is for homophobes its going to get harder and harder for them to survive if they don’t buy stuff from companies that gay people like human beings and perhaps even many of them understand that, and don’t like it. Beyond that with modern anti discrimination laws, companies may not be able to legally get away with things that would keep them off Joe Kovacs’ list.
Doug Little:
November 19th, 2012 at 4:16 pm
peterh @8,
I think you misunderstood me. I was referring to the Amish because of their lack of anything electrical, as most electrical appliances these days have some form of an algorithmic program running within them.
John Hinkle:
November 19th, 2012 at 5:49 pm
Fundie: No Kraft Mac-n-Cheese?!? Now this gay thing HAS gone too far! What are my kids going to eat? They’re fucking monsters if they don’t get their mac-n-cheese! Fuck you WND and the horse you rode in on! You’re damn lucky I’m too tired to hold the shift key or you’d hear this clear around world.
thomwatson:
November 19th, 2012 at 10:34 pm
Dough @2 asks
thomwatson:
November 19th, 2012 at 10:35 pm
Argh… sorry… forgot to close the blockquote tag. The second and third grafs are mine.