New Scorecard Rates Businesses on Speech, Religious Freedom Support

New Scorecard Rates Businesses on Speech, Religious Freedom Support

"Writing at World magazine, radio host Erick Erickson discusses a new corporate scorecard he calls a “mechanism for exposing corporate America’s progressivism,” which rates businesses on their support of free speech and religious freedom.
The scorecard is a response to big businesses increasingly using their economic clout to force governments to pass laws favoring social policies the managers and activist groups want, and which stockholders and customers may dislike intensely.
Erickson writes,
"...This action uses the tactics of progressive organizations like the Human Rights Campaign to counterbalance their influence on corporate America. 

Together, ADF and Inspire have rated 50 of the Fortune 1000 companies on their commitment to free speech and religious freedom. 

...So too are financial groups like Bank of America that often process or might refuse to process transactions of groups based on their political views….
“CEOs and business leaders have positions of considerable power,” notes Jeremy Tedesco, ADF senior counsel and senior vice president for corporate engagement. 

• “They shouldn’t weaponize their influence or the companies they run to divide Americans or engage in speech censorship or anti-religious bigotry.”..

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