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		<title>HRC&#8217;s 195 100-Percent Pro-Homosexual Corporations</title>
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Coca-Cola and Best Buy have been on HRC&#8217;s 100-percent Pro-Homosexual Corporations list for two and four years, respectively. Coke&#8217;s competitor PepsiCo has been on the HRC list for four years. McDonald&#8217;s scores an 85% on the &#8220;gay&#8221; group&#8217;s survey. Click HERE to learn about the HRC&#8217;s criteria for ranking companies. 
In 2008, the following [...]]]></description>
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<p align="center"><strong><em><font color="#0000ff">Coca-Cola and Best Buy have been on HRC&#8217;s 100-percent Pro-Homosexual Corporations list for two and four years, respectively. Coke&#8217;s competitor PepsiCo has been on the HRC list for four years. <a href="http://americansfortruth.com/news/mcdonalds-scores-85-percent-on-homosexual-lobby-group-hrcs-corporate-scorecard.html">McDonald&#8217;s</a> scores an 85% on the &#8220;gay&#8221; group&#8217;s survey. Click <a href="http://americansfortruth.com/news/mcdonalds-scores-85-percent-on-homosexual-lobby-group-hrcs-corporate-scorecard.html">HERE to learn about the HRC&#8217;s criteria</a> for ranking companies. </font></em></strong></p>
<p>In 2008, the following <strong>195 &#8216;Fortune 1,000&#8242; corporations</strong> received a perfect 100-percent score from the pro-homosexual lobby group <a href="http://www.hrc.org">Human Rights Campaign</a> (HRC), in its <a href="http://www.hrc.org/documents/HRC_Corporate_Equality_Index_2008.pdf">&#8220;2008 Corporate Equality Index.&#8221;</a> Click on <a href="http://americansfortruth.com/news/mcdonalds-scores-85-percent-on-homosexual-lobby-group-hrcs-corporate-scorecard.html">AFTAH&#8221;s story on McDonald&#8217;s 85-percent score</a> &#8212; to learn about the pro-&#8221;gay&#8221; criteria for HRC&#8217;s &#8220;Corporate Equality Index.&#8221; The number next to each corporation&#8217;s name and headquarters city indicates how many years that company has received a 100% HRC ranking. (First-year 100% corporations are in bold.) <em>Source:</em> <a href="http://www.hrc.org/documents/HRC_Corporate_Equality_Index_2008.pdf">HRC&#8217;s 2008 Corporate Equality Index.</a></p>
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<p>AAA Northern California, Nevada and Utah San Francisco, CA 3<br />
Abercrombie &amp; Fitch Co. New Albany, OH 2<br />
<strong> Accenture Ltd. New York, NY 1</strong><br />
Adobe Systems Inc. San Jose, CA 2<br />
Aetna Inc. Hartford, CT 6<br />
Agilent Technologies Inc. Santa Clara , CA 4<br />
Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer &amp; Feld LLP Washington, DC 1<br />
Alcatel-Lucent Murray Hill, NJ<br />
Allianz Life Insurance Co. of North America Minneapolis, MN 2<br />
<strong> Allstate Corp., The Northbrook, IL 1</strong><br />
Alston &amp; Bird LLP Atlanta, GA 3<br />
American Express Co. New York, NY 4<br />
Ameriprise Financial Inc. Minneapolis, MN 2<br />
AMR Corp. (American Airlines) Fort Worth, TX 6<br />
Anheuser-Busch Companies Inc. St. Louis, MO 2<br />
<strong> Aon Corp. Chicago, IL 1</strong><br />
Apple Inc. Cupertino, CA 6<br />
Arnold &amp; Porter LLP Washington, DC 2<br />
AT&amp;T Inc. San Antonio, TX 3<br />
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<p>Bain &amp; Co. Inc. Boston, MA 2<br />
Bank of America Corp. Charlotte, NC 2<br />
Bausch &amp; Lomb Inc. Rochester, NY 5<br />
<strong> Bear Stearns Companies Inc., The New York, NY 1</strong><br />
Best Buy Co. Inc. Richfield, MN 4<br />
<strong> Bingham McCutchen Boston, MA 1<br />
Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals Inc. Ridgefield, CT 1</strong><br />
Boeing Co. Chicago, IL 2<br />
Borders Group Inc. Ann Arbor, MI 3<br />
<strong> Boston Consulting Group Boston, MA 1</strong><br />
BP America Inc. Warrenville, IL 3<br />
Bright Horizons Family Solutions Inc. Watertown, MA 2<br />
Brinker International Inc. Dallas, TX 2<br />
Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. New York, NY 2<br />
<strong> Bryan Cave LLP St. Louis, MO 1</strong></p>
<p>Capital One Financial Corp. McLean, VA 5<br />
Cargill Inc. Wayzata, MN 4<br />
Carlson Companies Inc. Minnetonka, MN 2<br />
Charles Schwab Corp., The San Francisco, CA 4<br />
Chevron Corp. San Ramon, CA 3<br />
ChoicePoint Inc. Alpharetta, GA 4<br />
Chrysler LLC Auburn Hills, MI 3<br />
Chubb Corp. Warren, NJ 4<br />
Cisco Systems Inc. San Jose, CA 4<br />
Citigroup Inc. New York, NY 4<br />
Clear Channel Communications Inc. San Antonio, TX 2<br />
<strong> Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen &amp; Hamilton New York, NY 1</strong><br />
Clorox Co. Oakland, CA 2<br />
CMP Media LLC Manhasset, NY 3<br />
CNA Insurance Chicago, IL 2<br />
Coca-Cola Co., The Atlanta, GA 2<br />
Coors Brewing Co. Denver, CO 4<br />
Corning Inc. Corning, NY 3<br />
<strong> Countrywide Financial Corp. Calabasas, CA 1</strong><br />
Credit Suisse New York, NY 3<br />
<strong> Crowell &amp; Moring LLP Washington, DC 1</strong><br />
Cummins Inc. Columbus, IN 3</p>
<p>Dell Inc. Round Rock, TX 4<br />
Deloitte &amp; Touche USA LLP New York, NY 2<br />
Deutsche Bank New York, NY 5<br />
<strong> Dewey Ballantine LLP New York, NY 1<br />
Dickstein Shapiro LLP Washington, DC 1</strong><br />
Dorsey &amp; Whitney LLP Minneapolis, MN 2<br />
Dow Chemical Co. Midland, MI 3<br />
DuPont (E.I. du Pont de Nemours) Wilmington, DE 2</p>
<p>Eastman Kodak Co. Rochester, NY 6<br />
<strong> Electronic Arts Inc. Redwood City, CA 1</strong><br />
Eli Lilly &amp; Co. Indianapolis, IN 2<br />
Ernst &amp; Young LLP New York, NY 3<br />
Estee Lauder Companies New York, NY 3<br />
<strong> Esurance Inc. San Francisco, CA 1</strong></p>
<p>Faegre &amp; Benson Minneapolis, MN 4<br />
Fannie Mae Washington, DC 2<br />
<strong> Foley &amp; Lardner Milwaukee, WI 1<br />
Foley Hoag LLP Boston, MA 1</strong><br />
Ford Motor Co. Dearborn, MI 4<br />
Freescale Semiconductor Inc. Austin, TX 3</p>
<p><strong> GameStop Corp. Grapevine, TX 1</strong><br />
Gap Inc. San Francisco, CA 3<br />
<strong> Genentech Inc. South San Francisco, CA 1</strong><br />
General Mills Inc. Minneapolis, MN 3<br />
General Motors Corp. Detroit, MI 2<br />
GlaxoSmithKline plc Philadelphia, PA 3<br />
Global Hyatt Corp. Chicago, IL 3<br />
Goldman Sachs Group Inc., The New York, NY 4<br />
Google Inc. Mountain View, CA 2</p>
<p><strong> Harrah&#8217;s Entertainment Inc. Las Vegas, NV 1<br />
Hartford Financial Services Co. Hartford, CT 1</strong><br />
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Inc. Wellesley, MA 2<br />
Heller Ehrman LLP San Francisco, CA 2<br />
<strong> Herman Miller Inc. Zeeland, MI 1</strong><br />
Hewitt Associates Lincolnshire, IL 2<br />
Hewlett-Packard Co. Palo Alto, CA 5<br />
<strong> Holland &amp; Knight LLP New York, NY 1</strong><br />
Honeywell International Inc. Morristown, NJ 2<br />
Hospira Inc. Lake Forest, IL 2<br />
<strong> HSBC USA Inc. Prospect Heights, IL 1</strong></p>
<p><strong> IndyMac Bancorp Inc. Pasadena, CA 1</strong><br />
ING North America Insurance Corp. Atlanta, GA 2<br />
Intel Corp. Santa Clara, CA 6<br />
International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) Armonk, NY 5<br />
Intuit Inc. Mountain View, CA 3</p>
<p><strong> J.C. Penney Co. Inc. Plano, TX 1</strong><br />
J.P. Morgan Chase &amp; Co. New York, NY 6<br />
Jenner &amp; Block LLP Chicago, IL 3<br />
Johnson &amp; Johnson New Brunswick, NJ 3</p>
<p>Kaiser Permanente Oakland, CA 3<br />
<strong> KeyCorp Cleveland, OH 1</strong><br />
Keyspan Corp Brooklyn, NY 4<br />
Kimpton Hotel &amp; Restaurant Group Inc. San Francisco, CA 4<br />
<strong> Kirkland &amp; Ellis Chicago, IL 1</strong><br />
KPMG LLP New York, NY 3<br />
Kraft Foods Inc. Northfield, IL 4<br />
<strong> Kramer Levin Naftalis &amp; Frankel LLP New York, NY 1</strong></p>
<p><strong> Latham &amp; Watkins LLP New York, NY 1</strong><br />
Lehman Brothers Holdings New York, NY 5<br />
Levi Strauss &amp; Co. San Francisco, CA 5<br />
Lexmark International Inc. Lexington, KY 3<br />
Liz Claiborne Inc. New York, NY 2</p>
<p><strong> Macy&#8217;s Inc. Cincinnati, OH 1<br />
Marriott International Inc. Washington, DC 1<br />
Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. Springfield, MA 1<br />
MasterCard Inc. Purchase, NY 1</strong><br />
McDermott Will &amp; Emery LLP Chicago, IL 2<br />
McKinsey &amp; Co. Inc. New York, MA 2<br />
Mellon Financial Corp. Pittsburgh, PA 3<br />
Merck &amp; Co. Inc. Whitehouse Station, NJ 2<br />
Merrill Lynch &amp; Co. New York, NY 3<br />
MetLife Inc. New York, NY 5<br />
Microsoft Corp. Redmond, WA 3<br />
<strong> Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky &amp; Popeo Boston, MA 1</strong><br />
Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams Taylorsville, NC 5<br />
Morgan Stanley New York, NY 2<br />
Morrison &amp; Foerster LLP San Francisco, CA 5<br />
Motorola Inc. Schaumburg, IL 4</p>
<p><strong> National Grid USA Westborough, MA 1</strong><br />
Nationwide Columbus, OH 4<br />
NCR Corp. Dayton, OH 6<br />
New York Times Co. New York, NY 4<br />
<strong> Newell Rubbermaid Inc. Atlanta, GA 1</strong><br />
Nike Inc. Beaverton, OR 6<br />
Nixon Peabody LLP Rochester, NY 2<br />
Nordstrom Inc. Seattle, WA 3<br />
Northern Trust Corp. Chicago, IL 2<br />
Northrop Grumman Corp. Los Angeles, CA 2</p>
<p><strong> O&#8217;Melveny &amp; Myers LLP Los Angeles, CA 1<br />
Oracle Corp. Redwood Shores, CA 1</strong><br />
Orrick, Herrington &amp; Sutcliffe San Francisco, CA 2</p>
<p><strong> Paul, Hastings, Janofsky &amp; Walker LLP Los Angeles, CA 1</strong><br />
PepsiCo Inc. Purchase, NY 4<br />
Pfizer Inc. New York, NY 4<br />
PG&amp;E Corp. San Francisco, CA 5<br />
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP San Francisco, CA 2<br />
Powell Goldstein LLP Atlanta, GA 2<br />
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP New York, NY 2<br />
<strong> Principal Financial Group Des Moines, IA 1</strong><br />
Prudential Financial Inc. Newark, NJ 5</p>
<p>Raytheon Co. Waltham, MA 3<br />
<strong> Recreational Equipment Inc. Kent, WA 1</strong><br />
Replacements Ltd. McLeansville, NC 6</p>
<p>S.C. Johnson &amp; Son Inc. Racine, WI 5<br />
Schering-Plough Corp. Kenilworth, NJ 2<br />
Sears Holdings Corp. Hoffman Estates, IL 3<br />
<strong> Sidley Austin LLP Chicago, IL 1<br />
Sodexho Inc. Gaithersburg, MD 1</strong><br />
<strong> Sonnenschein, Nath &amp; Rosenthal Chicago, IL 1</strong><br />
Sprint Nextel Corp Reston, VA 3<br />
<strong> Starbucks Corp. Seattle, WA 1</strong><br />
Starcom MediaVest Group Chicago, IL 2<br />
Starwood Hotels &amp; Resorts Worldwide White Plains, NY 2<br />
State Street Corp. Boston, MA 2<br />
<strong> Subaru of America Inc. Cherry Hill, NJ 1</strong><br />
Sun Microsystems Inc. Santa Clara, CA 3<br />
SunTrust Banks Inc. Atlanta, GA 3<br />
<strong> Supervalu Inc. Eden Prairie, MN 1</strong></p>
<p>Tech Data Corp. Clearwater, FL 3<br />
<strong> Time Warner Inc. New York, NY 1</strong><br />
Toyota Motor Sales USA Inc. Torrance, CA 2<br />
<strong> Travelport Inc. Parsippany, NJ 1<br />
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<p><strong> U.S. Bancorp Minneapolis, MN 1</strong><br />
UBS AG Stamford, CT 3<br />
United Parcel Service Inc. (UPS) Atlanta, GA 1<br />
US Airways Group Inc. Tempe, AZ 3</p>
<p>Viacom Inc. New York, NY 3<br />
Visa Foster City, CA 2<br />
Volkswagen of America Inc. Auburn Hills, MI 2</p>
<p>Wachovia Corp. Charlotte, NC 2<br />
Walgreens Co. Deerfield, IL 3<br />
Walt Disney Co. Burbank, CA 2<br />
Washington Mutual Inc. Seattle, WA 2<br />
<strong> Waste Management Inc. Houston, TX 1</strong><br />
Wells Fargo &amp; Co. San Francisco, CA 4  <strong>[see AFTAH article: <a href="http://americansfortruth.com/news/wells-fargo-is-a-huge-supporter-of-the-homosexual-agenda.html">"Wells Fargo Is a Huge Supporter of the Homosexual Agenda"</a>]</strong><br />
Whirlpool Corp. Benton Harbor, MI 4<br />
Wyndham Worldwide Corp. Parsippany, NJ 2</p>
<p>Xerox Corp. Stamford, CT 6</p>
<p><strong> Yahoo! Inc. Sunnyvale, CA 1</strong></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Part of the problem these days with pro-family corporate boycotts is that so many large companies have already sold out to the homosexual activist agenda. Wells Fargo is one of them. They are a Founding Sponsor of the National Gay &#38; Lesbian Chamber of Commerce (NLGCC) &#8212; along with:

 American Airlines
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2008/07/wells_fargo.gif" title="wells_fargo.gif"><img src="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2008/07/wells_fargo.gif" alt="wells_fargo.gif" align="right" height="215" hspace="10" width="215" /></a>Part of the problem these days with pro-family corporate boycotts is that so many large companies have already sold out to the homosexual activist agenda. <strong><a href="https://www.wellsfargo.com/about/contact_us">Wells Fargo</a></strong> is one of them. They are a Founding Sponsor of the <a href="http://www.nglcc.org/">National Gay &amp; Lesbian Chamber of Commerce (NLGCC)</a> &#8212; along with:</p>
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<li> <strong>American Airlines</strong></li>
<li><strong>American Express</strong></li>
<li><strong>Ernst &amp; Young</strong></li>
<li><strong>IBM</strong></li>
<li><strong>Intel</strong></li>
<li><strong>JPMorganChase</strong></li>
<li><strong>Lehman Brothers</strong></li>
<li><strong>Motorola</strong></li>
<li><strong>Travelport</strong></li>
<li><strong>Wyndham Hotels &amp; Resorts </strong></li>
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<p><strong>Wells Fargo, based in San Francisco</strong>, earned a 100 percent ranking on the homosexual activist lobby Human Rights Campaign&#8217;s <a href="http://www.hrc.org/documents/HRC_Corporate_Equality_Index_2008.pdf">&#8220;2008 Corporate Equality Index&#8221;</a> &#8212; it&#8217;s Wells Fargo&#8217;s fourth straight year with a perfect record. Click <a href="http://americansfortruth.com/news/hrcs-195-100-percent-pro-homosexual-corporations.html">HERE</a> to see the list of all 195 of the <a href="http://americansfortruth.com/news/hrcs-195-100-percent-pro-homosexual-corporations.html">100-percent Pro-Homosexual Companies</a>, according to HRC. McDonald&#8217;s &#8212; target of a <a href="http://americansfortruth.com/news/americans-for-truth-supports-afas-boycott-of-mcdonalds.html">growing pro-family boycott</a> started by AFA &#8212; got an 85 percent score this year; you can view HRC&#8217;s pro-homosexual criteria <a href="http://americansfortruth.com/news/mcdonalds-scores-85-percent-on-homosexual-lobby-group-hrcs-corporate-scorecard.html">HERE in our McDonald&#8217;s article</a>.</p>
<p>As an example of Wells Fargo&#8217;s aggressively pro-&#8221;gay&#8221; marketing strategy, the company sponsors the annual <a href="http://www.nglcc.org/community/lgbtaward">&#8220;NGLCC/Wells Fargo LGBT Business Owner of the Year Award.&#8221;</a>  (For the uninitiated, &#8220;LGBT&#8221; stands for &#8220;Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender.&#8221;) We suspect that many pro-family Americans &#8212; be they religious or not &#8212; would <strong>take their mortgage, loan or banking business elsewhere if they were to learn of Wells Fargo&#8217;s deep commitment to the Homosexual Lobby.</strong></p>
<p>Do you want your money to end up supporting homosexual, bisexual and transsexual activism? Contact Wells Fargo through their <a href="https://www.wellsfargo.com/about/contact_us">online corporate contact page</a>.</p>
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		<title>Which Corporations Have Bought into &#8220;Out &amp; Equal&#8217;s&#8221; Agenda?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2007 06:24:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sonja Dalton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A followup to AFTAH&#8217;s exclusive special report on Out &#038; Equal&#8217;s radical agenda&#8230;
From the Out &#038; Equal website:
Out &#038; Equal Workplace Advocates is proud to display our ever-increasing list of corporations who support LGBT workplace equality by encouraging and fostering their own employee resource groups (ERGs). With such valuable workplace groups in place, employees in [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A followup to <a href="http://americansfortruth.com/news/out-equal-excessively-costly-to-american-business.html">AFTAH&#8217;s exclusive special report</a> on Out &#038; Equal&#8217;s radical agenda&#8230;</p>
<p><a href="http://www.outandequal.org/resources/groups/ERGcorps.asp">From the Out &#038; Equal website</a>:</p>
<p><strong>Out &#038; Equal Workplace Advocates</strong> is proud to display our ever-increasing list of corporations who support LGBT workplace equality by encouraging and fostering their own employee resource groups (ERGs). With such valuable workplace groups in place, employees in one ERG can turn to leaders in other groups to share resources and establish good workplace practices for LGBT employees. LGBT employees trust their employers are keeping their interests in mind when making key business decisions that affect all employees&#8230;</p>
<p align="center"><strong>True Out &#038; Equal Workplace Leaders</strong></p>
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<p align="center">The following companies have already joined the Out &#038; Equal ERG Registry:</p>
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<p align="center">Aetna &#8212; Agilent Technologies &#8212; Air Products and Chemicals &#8212; <a href="http://www.equal.org/">Alcatel-Lucent</a> &#8212; Alliant Energy<br />
Ameriprise Financial &#8212; AMR/American Airlines &#8212; AOL &#8212; AstraZeneca &#8212; <a href="http://www.league-att.org/">AT&#038;T</a></p>
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<p align="center"><a href="http://www.bain.com/bainweb/Join_Bain/bglad.asp">Bain and Company</a> &#8212; Bank of America &#8212; Barclays Capital &#8212; Best Buy &#8212; Boeing<br />
Booz Allen Hamilton &#8212; BP &#8212; Bristol-Myers Squibb &#8212; Bryan Cave LLP &#8212; <a target="_blank" href="http://www.btkaleidoscope.co.uk/">BT</a></p>
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<p align="center">Cargill &#8212; Caterpillar Inc. &#8212; CH2M Hill &#8212; Charles Schwab &#8212; Chase &#8212; Chevron &#8212; Chubb<br />
Cingular Wireless &#8212; Cisco Systems &#8212; Citigroup &#8212; <a href="http://www.thecloroxcompany.com/careers/work_diversity.html">Clorox</a> &#8212; Coca-Cola &#8212; Consolidated Edison<br />
Convergys &#8212; Coors &#8212; Credit Suisse &#8212; CSAA &#8212; Cummins &#8212; CUNA Mutual Group</p>
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<p align="center">DaimlerChrysler &#8212; Deloitte &#8212; Deutsche Bank &#8212; Diamond &#8212; <a target="_blank" href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DisneyLEAGUE">Disney</a> &#8212; Dow &#8212; <a href="http://www.dupontbglad.com/">DuPont</a></p>
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<p align="center">Eastman Kodak Company &#8212; Equality Cincinnati &#8212; <a href="http://ey.com/us/bEYond">Ernst &#038; Young, LLP</a></p>
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<p align="center">Faegre &#038; Benson, LLP &#8212; Fairview Health Services &#8212; <a href="http://fordglobe.org/">Finger Lakes LGBT Workplace Alliance<br />
Ford</a> &#8212; Freescale</p>
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<p align="center">Gap Inc. &#8212; GE &#8212; GM &#8212; Google</p>
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<p align="center">Hallmark &#8212; Harris &#8212; <a target="_blank" href="http://www.hewitt.com/beyourself">Hewitt</a> &#8212; Honeywell &#8212; HP &#8212; HSBC</p>
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<p align="center"><a href="http://home.earthlink.net/%7Eeagleibm/">IBM</a> &#8212; ING &#8212; <a target="_blank" href="http://www.intelglbt.org/">Intel</a> &#8212; ITT Space Systems Division</p>
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<p align="center">James Madison University &#8212; JCPenney &#8212; Johnson &#038; Johnson &#8212; JPMorgan Chase</p>
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<p align="center">Kaiser Permanente &#8212; Kimberly-Clark &#8212; KPMG LLP &#8212; <a href="http://kraft.com/responsibility/people_diversity.aspx">Kraft Foods</a></p>
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<p align="center">Lockheed Martin</p>
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<p align="center"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.mwe.com/info/diversity/lgbt.html">McDermott Will &#038; Emery LLP</a> &#8212; McDonald&#8217;s &#8212; McGraw-Hill &#8212; Medtronic &#8212; Mellon Financial<br />
Merck Merrill Lynch &#8212; <a target="_blank" href="http://www.microsoft.com/about/corporatecitizenship/citizenship/diversity/inside/dac/gleam.asp">Microsoft</a> &#8212; Morgan Stanley &#8212; Motorola</p>
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<p align="center">National Nuclear Security Administration, DOE &#8212; Nationwide &#8212; <a target="_blank" href="http://www.league-ncr.com/links/employee-groups.cfm">NCR</a><br />
New York Life Insurance Co. &#8212; Nike, Inc. &#8212; Novartis</p>
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<p align="center">Owens Corning</p>
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<p align="center">PepsiCo &#8212; Pershing &#8212; Pfizer &#8212; Portland General Electric &#8212; Pratt &#038; Whitney<br />
PricewaterhouseCoopers &#8212; <a href="http://www.principal.com/about/diversity/workforce.htm">Principal Financial Group</a> &#8212; Procter &#038; Gamble &#8212; PSEG</p>
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<p align="center">Raytheon Company &#8212; Reuters</p>
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<p align="center">Safeway Inc &#8212; Shaw&#8217;s Supermarkets &#8212; Shell &#8212; SODEXHO &#8212; Space Coast Advocates&#8217; Network<br />
Starbucks Coffee Company &#8212; State Farm Insurance &#8212; Sun Microsystems &#8212; SUPERVALU</p>
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<p align="center">Teamsters &#8212; Texas Instruments &#8212; Thomson West &#8212; Time Warner &#8212; Toyota &#8212; Tropicana</p>
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<p align="center">University of Michigan Health System &#8212; University of Rochester &#8212; University of Virginia</p>
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<p align="center">Verizon &#8212; Visa</p>
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<p align="center">Wachovia &#8212; Waggener Edstrom Worldwide &#8212; WalMart &#8212; Wells Fargo &#8212; Wyeth</p>
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<div align="center"><a target="_blank" href="http://galaxe.org/">Xerox Corporation</a></div>
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		<title>Queer Inc:  How Corporate America Fell in Love With Homosexuality</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Dec 2006 17:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sonja Dalton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This article is a must-read for anyone working for an American corporation. From the automotive, airline, and petrochemical industries to banks, retail stores, and restaurants patronized primarily by traditional families, employers are capitulating to the demands of homosexual activists who are organizing homosexual employees. 
The pro-family movement must re-engage in the corporate arena, or there [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>This article is a must-read for anyone working for an American corporation. From the automotive, airline, and petrochemical industries to banks, retail stores, and restaurants patronized primarily by traditional families, employers are capitulating to the demands of homosexual activists who are organizing homosexual employees. </em></p>
<p><em>The pro-family movement must re-engage in the corporate arena, or there is no hope of recovering moral sanity in the larger culture. To start with we can demand strict neutrality in corporate &#8220;diversity&#8221; and giving programs, and an end to one-sided tolerance seminars that are in reality training sessions in &#8220;gay&#8221; ideology. &#8212; Peter LaBarbera</em></p>
<p>Excerpted from <a href="http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/12/11/8395465/"><em>Queer Inc</em></a>, by Marc Gunther, published Nov 30, 2006, by <em>Fortune</em>:</p>
<p>&#8230;A platoon of Raytheon employees wearing identical blue-and-black bowling shirts, pins with the company&#8217;s logo and black pants proudly walked the halls of this fall&#8217;s convention of Out &#038; Equal, an organization that brings together the networks of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people &#8211; GLBT, in the argot of the moment &#8211; that have taken root at America&#8217;s big companies.</p>
<p>For three days in Chicago, with about 1,700 delegates from other companies, the 67 members of Raytheon&#8217;s GLBT network could attend workshops with such titles as The Cost of Transgender Health Benefits, Breaking Through the Lavender Ceiling and Male-on-Male Sexual Harassment: An Emerging Issue&#8230;</p>
<p>When Justin Nelson was trying to get the <strong>National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce</strong> off the ground in 2003, IBM offered its support. &#8220;If they hadn&#8217;t joined, there wouldn&#8217;t be a chamber,&#8221; Nelson says. Big Blue was followed by Wells Fargo, Motorola, Intel, American Express and recently, Wal-Mart&#8230;</p>
<p>Some companies are grappling with how to manage employees switching from one sex to another. American Airlines and its HR people helped a 58-year-old pilot &#8211; an ex-Marine and Vietnam combat veteran &#8211; go from being Robert to Bobbi. Energy giant Chevron published &#8220;Transgender@Chevron,&#8221; an eight-page guide to the issues that come up when a worker changes gender identity, ranging from the bureaucratic (don&#8217;t forget to get a new security badge) to the everyday (when it&#8217;s appropriate to move from the men&#8217;s room to the ladies&#8217; room or vice versa)&#8230;</p>
<p><strong><font color="#ff6600">This is how workplace changes typically happen at big companies &#8211; from the inside out. Gay and lesbian employees come out of the closet. They find one another. They organize. They enlist straight allies. And they take their concerns to top managers.</font></strong></p>
<p>These gay networks customarily meet in company facilities, use the company intranet, and receive financial support&#8230;</p>
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<li><strong><font color="#ff6600">Among corporations, IBM is the No. 1 financial supporter of gay rights groups in the U.S. </font></strong></li>
<li><strong><font color="#ff6600">To export its gay-friendly culture, IBM supports employee GLBT groups in 23 countries, including Singapore, Slovakia and Colombia. There&#8217;s plenty to do: In 80 countries homosexual acts are illegal, as they were in parts of the U.S. until a few years ago.</font></strong></li>
<li>Last year IBM convened a group of gay college students at the Human Rights Campaign to form a national organization of students in science and technology.</li>
<li><strong><font color="#ff6600">IBM persuaded Dr. Marci Bowers, one of the world&#8217;s leading sex-reassignment surgeons and herself a transgendered person, to participate in the company&#8217;s health insurance program.</font></strong></li>
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<p>&#8230;the truth is that for the past 15 years, boycotts or no boycotts, corporate America has been moving in only one direction, and at a pretty rapid pace.</p>
<p>Do you recall that the restaurant chain Cracker Barrel fired gay workers back in 1991 for not having &#8220;normal heterosexual values&#8221;? Well, a few years ago, when a Kodak employee sent an e-mail to co-workers objecting to the company&#8217;s endorsement of National Coming Out day as &#8220;disgusting and offensive,&#8221; he was the one who was fired when he declined to apologize. He was entitled to his beliefs, the company explained, but his behavior was not aligned with Kodak&#8217;s values.</p>
<p><strong>So it&#8217;s clear where big business is going.</strong> What&#8217;s interesting is to watch it pull the rest of the country along. It turns out that the most important factor shaping people&#8217;s feelings about gay issues is not their age or even their religion &#8211; although those do matter &#8211; but whether they have relatives, friends or co-workers who are gay.</p>
<p align="right"><a href="http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/12/11/8395465/"><strong>Continue reading at CNN&#8230;</strong></a></p>
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		<title>Wal-Mart Contributes 5% Of Online Sales Via DC Homosexual Community Center Website</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Nov 2006 05:29:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sonja Dalton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A hat tip to our friends at American Family Association:
In a show of support to help homosexuals legalize same-sex &#8220;marriage,&#8221; Wal-Mart has agreed to automatically donate 5% of online sales directly to the Washington DC Community Center for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender People. The cash donation will come from all online purchases made at [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A hat tip to our friends at <a href="https://secure.afa.net/afa/activism/signpetition.asp?id=1630"><strong>American Family Association</strong></a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>In a show of support to help homosexuals legalize same-sex &#8220;marriage,&#8221; Wal-Mart has agreed to <a href="http://www.afa.net/dcmetrowalmartdonation.htm">automatically <strong>donate 5% of online sales</strong> directly</a> to the <a href="http://www.thedccenter.org/">Washington DC Community Center for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender People</a>. The cash donation will come from all online purchases made at Wal-Mart <strong>through the homosexual group&#8217;s web site.</strong> This move follows Wal-Mart&#8217;s joining the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce and agreeing to give generous financial help to that group.</p></blockquote>
<p>AFA says that Wal-Mart also gave <strong>a generous cash donation to the <a href="http://www.nwaglbtcc.org/">Northwest Arkansas GLBT Community Center</a>.</strong></p>
<p>AFA is calling for a boycott of Wal-Mart on the Friday following Thanksgiving, which is typically the biggest shopping day of the year.</p>
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<blockquote><p><strong><font color="#ff6600"><font size="3">To sign a pledge to participate in the one-day boycott, </font></font></strong><br />
<strong><font color="#ff6600"><font size="3">click <a href="https://secure.afa.net/afa/activism/signpetition.asp?id=1630">HERE</a>. </font></font></strong></p></blockquote>
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<p><strong>Note from Americans for Truth</strong> &#8211; Wal-Mart is not the only company participating in this program. Other familiar retailers include:</p>
<ul>
<li>1-800-Flowers (6%)</li>
<li>Amazon (5%)</li>
<li>Avon (8%)</li>
<li>Barnes and Noble (5%)</li>
<li>Disney Store (5%)</li>
<li>FTD (6%)</li>
<li>Gap (5%)</li>
<li>Hallmark (12%)</li>
<li>Office Max (4%)</li>
<li>REI (5%)</li>
<li>Staples (3%)</li>
<li>Toys R Us (via Amazon, 5%)</li>
<li>Verizon Online DSL ($40)</li>
</ul>
<p>For a complete list of companies donating money from purchases to promote homosexuality, click <a href="http://www.thedccenter.org/shop.html"><strong>HERE</strong></a>.</p>
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		<title>Millionnaire Homosexual Tim Gill Commits More Than $200 Million to Pro-&#8221;Gay&#8221; Foundations, Political Campaigns</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Oct 2006 18:36:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sonja Dalton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Excerpted from For Gill, It&#8217;s Not About the Money, by Myung Oak Kim And Burt Hubbard, published Oct 23, 2006, in Rocky Mountain News:
&#8230;Tim Gill, the 53-year-old founder of the desktop software firm Quark, became a force in Colorado politics two years ago when he and three other wealthy residents spent $2 million to help [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Excerpted from <a href="http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/elections/article/0,2808,DRMN_24736_5087094,00.html"><em>For Gill, It&#8217;s Not About the Money</em></a>, by Myung Oak Kim And Burt Hubbard, published Oct 23, 2006, in <em>Rocky Mountain News</em>:</p>
<p><img width="141" height="161" align="right" id="image441" alt="tim-gill.jpg" src="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2006/10/tim-gill.jpg" />&#8230;<strong>Tim Gill</strong>, the 53-year-old founder of the desktop software firm <a href="http://www.quark.com/"><strong>Quark</strong></a>, became a force in Colorado politics two years ago when he and three other wealthy residents spent <strong>$2 million</strong> to help install a Democratic majority in both houses of the state legislature for the first time in decades.</p>
<p>This year, Gill has dropped almost <strong>$5 million</strong> so far on state election campaigns &#8211; more than any other individual in Colorado.</p>
<p>&#8230;&#8221;I have never seen in Colorado politics in the 30-some odd years where I&#8217;ve been active . . . any individual involved to the degree that Tim Gill is,&#8221; said political consultant Katy Atkinson, a registered Republican who works with both sides of the aisle on ballot measures.</p>
<p><strong>&#8220;Should he choose to, he can shape any part of Colorado public policy he wants to.&#8221;</strong></p>
<p>Gill also is a player on the national stage, funneling more than <strong>$2 million</strong> into mostly Democratic causes, including the <a href="http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?print=yes&#038;id=8738"><strong>Democracy Alliance</strong></a>, a new group made up of <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/06/AR2005080600848.html">dozens of the country&#8217;s wealthiest donors</a> who are lavishing money on think tanks and organizations to counter similar groups established years ago by conservatives.</p>
<p>All of this is on top of Gill&#8217;s considerable philanthropy. <font size="3">Gill and his 12-year-old <a href="http://www.gillfoundation.org/"><strong>Gill Foundation</strong></a> have spent more than <strong>$80 million</strong> on gay and lesbian causes</font> and on other organizations friendly to their gay workers, including the Pikes Peak Library Foundation, the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center and Public Broadcasting of Colorado.</p>
<p><strong>And all of this is just the beginning,</strong> according to Gill&#8217;s political adviser Ted Trimpa.</p>
<p>&#8220;Tim is in it for the long haul,&#8221; said Trimpa, a partner at the high-profile law firm Brownstein Hyatt &#038; Farber. <strong>&#8220;What we&#8217;re talking about is strategic philanthropy and strategic politics.&#8221;&#8230;</strong></p>
<p><span id="more-440"></span><strong><font size="3">&#8216;Unquestionable&#8217; national impact</font></strong><br />
Much of Gill&#8217;s support has gone to 527 groups, which take their name from Section 527 of the Internal Revenue Code&#8230;</p>
<p>Gill is the top political donor in Colorado and much of the West to national 527 groups, according to the <a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/">Center for Responsive Politics</a>, a nonpartisan research group that tracks political contributions. He ranks 16th among all individual 527 donors nationwide, said organization communications director Massie Ritsch.</p>
<p>&#8220;If you&#8217;re No. 16 on the 527 list, you&#8217;re in the elite,&#8221; Ritsch said. &#8220;If I need to put together a dinner party of the biggest left-leaning donors in the country, I&#8217;d invite him.&#8221;</p>
<p>These 527 donations give Gill a behind- the-scene hand in influencing campaigns far from Colorado. For example, the <a href="http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/15664082.htm"><strong>Lantern Project</strong></a>, a Gill beneficiary, is <strong>funding ads against U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa.</strong></p>
<p>Steve Farber, the Denver lawyer and political insider who is trying to bring the 2008 Democratic National Convention to Denver, describes Gill as &#8220;a very loyal Democrat both locally and nationally.&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>&#8220;I think his impact nationally is unquestionable,&#8221;</strong> Farber said.</p>
<p>Gill&#8217;s political adversaries say they are well aware of his impact.</p>
<p>&#8220;I see him as being the most focused force on a political agenda,&#8221; said state Rep. Kevin Lundberg, R-Berthoud, a vocal opponent of Referendum I. <strong>&#8220;He&#8217;s trying to mainstream the homosexual community into our culture.&#8221;</strong></p>
<p>&#8220;I am concerned that he has been very effective and will continue to be very effective,&#8221; he added. &#8220;That&#8217;s the way the system works. He has that right because he has the resources.&#8221;&#8230;</p>
<p><strong><font size="3">A focus on local politics</font></strong><br />
At a three-day Gill-sponsored conference in Miami last March, Gill pushed for a major shift in political strategy in the gay rights movement.</p>
<p><strong>The Gill Action Fund &#8220;political outgiving&#8221; meeting brought together almost 200 of the biggest advocates and supporters of the gay rights movement. Gill&#8217;s message to them was simple: All politics is local.</strong></p>
<p>Until then, wealthy gay donors often focused on &#8220;glamour giving&#8221; &#8211; donations to presidential or congressional campaigns with an eye toward hobnobbing with the rich and famous&#8230;</p>
<p>He created the Gill Foundation in 1994 with an endowment of more than <strong>$200 million</strong>&#8230;</p>
<p align="right"><a href="http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/elections/article/0,2808,DRMN_24736_5087094,00.html"><em>Continue reading in Rocky Mountain News&#8230;</em></a></p>
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		<title>Corporate America Is Competing to Promote Homosexuality</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Sep 2006 04:47:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sonja Dalton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It used to be American leftists and peaceniks who crusaded against Big Business. Now it&#8217;s moral-minded and largely Christian conservatives&#8211;who have watched one Fortune 500 company after another embrace pro-homosexual advocacy, dressed up as &#8220;diversity.&#8221; 
While the pro-family movement focused on doing battle against the homosexual lobby in Washington, D.C., and state capitals, &#8220;gay&#8221; activists [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>It used to be American leftists and peaceniks who crusaded against Big Business. Now it&#8217;s moral-minded and largely Christian conservatives&#8211;who have watched one Fortune 500 company after another embrace pro-homosexual advocacy, dressed up as &#8220;diversity.&#8221; </em></p>
<p><em>While the pro-family movement focused on doing battle against the homosexual lobby in Washington, D.C., and state capitals, &#8220;gay&#8221; activists won over corporations, largely through internal activism within each company. <strong>Kodak</strong>, <a href="http://www.family.org/cforum/fosi/education/nac/a0029442.cfm">a leading national sponsor of <strong>GLSEN (Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network)</strong></a> went heavily into homosexual advocacy after a top female executive declared her lesbianism to fellow execs. Kodak is among the 138 companies that received a <a href="http://www.hrc.org/Template.cfm?Section=Get_Informed2&#038;Template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&#038;ContentID=33909"><strong>100% score</strong></a> on the <strong>&#8220;Corporate Equality Index&#8221;</strong> (read: Pro-Homosexuality Index) of the <strong>Human Rights Campaign (HRC),</strong> the nation&#8217;s leading &#8220;gay&#8221; lobby group.</em></p>
<p><em>The battle to restore corporate neutrality on the homosexual issue will be a long and tough one, but it must be fought. People of faith inside companies can refuse to participate in pro-homosexual, one-sided &#8220;tolerance&#8221; sessions that undercut their moral beliefs. Or at least, they can request that the pro-family perspective on the issue be represented in the name of <strong>diversity</strong>. And they must work closely with outside family advocates to fight against corporate grants to homosexual groups like <strong>HRC</strong> that have a well-earned reputation for radicalism and bigotry&#8211;e.g., supporting taxpayer-funded transsexual &#8220;sex-change&#8221; operations and demonizing religious people and groups opposed to homosexuality. </em></p>
<p><em>You may get hassled or even punished along the way for standing for truth, but Christ said, &#8220;<strong>If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also&#8221; (John 15:20).  </strong></em><em>If you need some help sharing the Gospel with a homosexual co-worker, try reading this short, helpful paper by former lesbian Yvette Schneider, <a href="http://www.cultureandfamily.org/articledisplay.asp?id=5308&#038;department=CFI&#038;categoryid=papers">&#8220;How Christians Can Talk to Homosexuals.&#8221;</a></em></p>
<p><em>The pendulum is swinging toward a politically correct corporate embrace of immoral and unhealthy sexual behavior, dressed up as an &#8220;orientation.&#8221; It will swing back toward normalcy in the years ahead. -</em><em>- Peter LaBarbera</em></p>
<p>The following is excerpted from <a href="http://www.hrc.org/Template.cfm?Section=Get_Informed2&#038;CONTENTID=33911&#038;TEMPLATE=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm"><em>New Report Shows Corporate America Competing to Be the Most GLBT-Friendly</em></a>, published Sept 19, 2006, by the homosexual activist group <strong>Human Rights Campaign</strong>:</p>
<p>The Human Rights Campaign today released a <a href="http://www.hrc.org/cei">report</a> showing that a record number of the largest U.S. companies are increasingly competing to expand benefits and protections for their gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender employees and consumers. This year’s report, the Human Rights Campaign’s fifth annual <a href="http://www.hrc.org/cei">Corporate Equality Index</a>, showed an unprecedented <strong>138 major U.S. companies earned the top rating of 100 percent.</strong></p>
<p align="right"><strong><a href="http://www.hrc.org/Template.cfm?Section=Get_Informed2&#038;CONTENTID=33911&#038;TEMPLATE=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm">Continue reading the HRC report&#8230; </a></strong></p>
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		<title>138 Fully Pro-Homosexual Corporations</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Sep 2006 04:44:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sonja Dalton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From America&#8217;s pro-homosexual giants: 2006, published Sept 20, 2006, by WorldNet Daily:
Below is the list of companies scoring a perfect 100 percent on the Human Rights Campaign&#8217;s 2006 Corporate Equality Index, with policies beneficial toward homosexuals:

  
Adobe Systems  
Aetna  
Agere Systems  
Agilent Technologies  
Allianz Life Insurance  
Alston &#038; Bird [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>From <a href="http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52052"><em>America&#8217;s pro-homosexual giants: 2006</em></a>, published Sept 20, 2006, by WorldNet Daily:<br />
Below is the list of <strong>companies scoring a perfect 100 percent</strong> on the Human Rights Campaign&#8217;s <a href="http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52060">2006 Corporate Equality Index</a>, with policies beneficial toward homosexuals:</p>
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<ol><font face="Palatino, Book Antiqua, Times New Roman, Georgia, Times"> <font face="Palatino, Book Antiqua, Times New Roman, Georgia, Times" /></font> <font face="Palatino, Book Antiqua, Times New Roman, Georgia, Times"><font face="Palatino, Book Antiqua, Times New Roman, Georgia, Times"></p>
<li><strong>Adobe Systems  </strong></li>
<li><strong>Aetna  </strong></li>
<li><strong>Agere Systems  </strong></li>
<li><strong>Agilent Technologies  </strong></li>
<li><strong>Allianz Life Insurance  </strong></li>
<li><strong>Alston &#038; Bird  </strong></li>
<li><strong>American Express  </strong></li>
<li><strong>AMR Corp. (American Airlines)  </strong></li>
<li><strong>Anheuser-Busch  </strong></li>
<li><strong>Apple Computer  </strong></li>
<li><strong>Arnold &#038; Porter  </strong></li>
<li><strong>AT&#038;T  </strong></li>
<li><strong>Avaya  </strong></li>
<li><strong>Bain &#038; Company  </strong></li>
<li><strong>Bank of America  </strong></li>
<li><strong>Bausch &#038; Lomb  </strong></li>
<li><strong>Bell South  </strong></li>
<li><strong>Best Buy  </strong></li>
<li><strong>Boeing  </strong></li>
<li><strong>BP America  </strong></li>
<li><strong>Bright Horizons Family Solutions  </strong></li>
<li><strong>Bristol-Myers Squibb  </strong></li>
<li><strong>California State Automobile Association  </strong></li>
<li><strong>Capital One Financial  </strong></li>
<li><strong>Cargill  </strong></li>
<li><strong>Carlson Companies  </strong></li>
<li><strong>Charles Schwab  </strong></li>
<li><strong>Chevron  </strong></li>
<li><strong>ChoicePoint  </strong></li>
<li><strong>Chubb  </strong></li>
<li><strong>CIGNA  </strong></li>
<li><strong>Cisco Systems  </strong></li>
<li><strong>Citigroup  </strong></li>
<li><strong>Clear Channel Communications  </strong></li>
<li><strong>Clorox  </strong></li>
<li><strong>CMP Media  </strong></li>
<li><strong>CNA Insurance  </strong></li>
<li><strong>Coca-Cola Company  </strong></li>
<li><strong>Consolidated Edison  </strong></li>
<li><strong>Coors Brewing  </strong></li>
<li><strong>Corning  </strong></li>
<li><strong>Credit Suisse First Boston  </strong></li>
<li><strong>Cummins  </strong></li>
<li><strong>Daimler Chrysler  </strong></li>
<li><strong>Dell  </strong></li>
<li><strong>Deloitte &#038; Touche USA  </strong></li>
<li><strong>Deutsche Bank  </strong></li>
<li><strong>Dorsey &#038; Whitney  </strong></li>
<li><strong>Dow Chemical  </strong></li>
<li><strong>DuPont  </strong></li>
<li><strong>Eastman Kodak  </strong></li>
<li><strong>Eli Lilly &#038; Co.  </strong></li>
<li><strong>Ernst &#038; Young  </strong></li>
<li><strong>Estee Lauder Companies  </strong></li>
<li><strong>Faegre &#038; Benson  </strong></li>
<li><strong>Fannie Mae  </strong></li>
<li><strong>Ford Motor Co.  </strong></li>
<li><strong>Freescale Semiconductor  </strong></li>
<li><strong>Gap Inc.  </strong></li>
<li><strong>General Mills  </strong></li>
<li><strong>General Motors  </strong></li>
<li><strong>GlaxoSmithKline  </strong></li>
<li><strong>Global Hyatt  </strong></li>
<li><strong>Goldman Sachs Group  </strong></li>
<li><strong>Google  </strong></li>
<li><strong>Harvard Pilgrim Health Care  </strong></li>
<li><strong>Heller Ehrman  </strong></li>
<li><strong>Hewitt Associates  </strong></li>
<li><strong>Hewlett-Packard  </strong></li>
<li><strong>Honeywell International  </strong></li>
<li><strong>Hospira  </strong></li>
<li><strong>ING North America Insurance  </strong></li>
<li><strong>Intel  </strong></li>
<li><strong>IBM  </strong></li>
<li><strong>Intuit  </strong></li>
<li><strong>J.P. Morgan Chase &#038; Co.  </strong></li>
<li><strong>Jenner &#038; Block  </strong></li>
<li><strong>Johnson &#038; Johnson  </strong></li>
<li><strong>Kaiser Permanente  </strong></li>
<li><strong>Keyspan  </strong></li>
<li><strong>Kimpton Hotel &#038; Restaurant Group  </strong></li>
<li><strong>KPMG  </strong></li>
<li><strong>Kraft Foods  </strong></li>
<li><strong>Lehman Brothers Holdings  </strong></li>
<li><strong>Levi Strauss &#038; Co.  </strong></li>
<li><strong>Lexmark International  </strong></li>
<li><strong>Liz Claiborne  </strong></li>
<li><strong>Lucent Technologies  </strong></li>
<li><strong>McDermott Will &#038; Emery  </strong></li>
<li><strong>McKinsey &#038; Co.  </strong></li>
<li><strong>Mellon Financial  </strong></li>
<li><strong>Merck &#038; Co.  </strong></li>
<li><strong>Merrill Lynch  </strong></li>
<li><strong>MetLife  </strong></li>
<li><strong>Microsoft  </strong></li>
<li><strong>Mitchell Gold and Bob Williams  </strong></li>
<li><strong>Morgan Stanley  </strong></li>
<li><strong>Morrison &#038; Foerster  </strong></li>
<li><strong>Motorola  </strong></li>
<li><strong>Nationwide  </strong></li>
<li><strong>NCR Corp.  </strong></li>
<li><strong>New York Times Co.  </strong></li>
<li><strong>Nike  </strong></li>
<li><strong>Nixon Peabody  </strong></li>
<li><strong>Nordstrom  </strong></li>
<li><strong>Northrop Grumman  </strong></li>
<li><strong>Orrick Herrington &#038; Sutcliffe  </strong></li>
<li><strong>Owens Corning  </strong></li>
<li><strong>Pepsico  </strong></li>
<li><strong>Pfizer  </strong></li>
<li><strong>PG&#038;E  </strong></li>
<li><strong>Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman  </strong></li>
<li><strong>Powell Goldstein  </strong></li>
<li><strong>PriceWaterhouseCoopers  </strong></li>
<li><strong>Prudential Financial  </strong></li>
<li><strong>Raytheon  </strong></li>
<li><strong>Replacements  </strong></li>
<li><strong>SC Johnson &#038; Son  </strong></li>
<li><strong>Schering-Plough  </strong></li>
<li><strong>Sears Holdings Corporation  </strong></li>
<li><strong>Sempra Energy  </strong></li>
<li><strong>Sprint Nextel  </strong></li>
<li><strong>Starcom MediaVest  </strong></li>
<li><strong>Starwood Hotels &#038; Resorts Worldwide  </strong></li>
<li><strong>State Street  </strong></li>
<li><strong>Sun Microsystems  </strong></li>
<li><strong>SunTrust Banks  </strong></li>
<li><strong>Tech Data Corp.  </strong></li>
<li><strong>The Olivia Companies  </strong></li>
<li><strong>US Airways  </strong></li>
<li><strong>Viacom  </strong></li>
<li><strong>Visa International  </strong></li>
<li><strong>Volkswagen of America  </strong></li>
<li><strong>Wachovia  </strong></li>
<li><strong>Walgreens  </strong></li>
<li><strong>Wells Fargo  </strong></li>
<li><strong>Whirlpool  </strong></li>
<li><strong>Xerox</strong></li>
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		<title>List of Gay Friendly Companies Continues to Grow</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Sep 2006 02:57:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sonja Dalton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Excerpted from List of GayFriendly Companies Continues to Grow, published Sept 21, 2006, by Agape Press:
The 2006 Corporate Equality Index&#8217;s 138-member list includes perennial representatives like IBM, Levi-Strauss, Nike, and even Ford Motor Company. It measures benefits and protections to &#8220;gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender&#8221; employees and customers, including promises against discrimination. The jump from [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Excerpted from <a href="http://www.usareligiousnews.com/newsArticle.php?ID=1031"><em>List of GayFriendly Companies Continues to Grow</em></a>, published Sept 21, 2006, by Agape Press:</p>
<p><font size="2">The 2006 Corporate Equality Index&#8217;s <strong><a target="_blank" href="http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52052">138-member list</a> </strong>includes perennial representatives like IBM, Levi-Strauss, Nike, and even Ford Motor Company. It measures benefits and protections to &#8220;gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender&#8221; employees and customers, including promises against discrimination. <strong>The jump from a list of 101 last year to 138 this year is being called a reflection of several culture trends.</strong> (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52060">See related article on <em>WorldNetDaily</em></a>)</font></p>
<p><font size="2"><strong>Peter LaBarbera</strong> is president of <strong><a target="_blank" href="http://www.americansfortruth.com/">Americans for Truth</a></strong>, a group that monitors the homosexual agenda throughout American culture. He contends that the campaigns to portray homosexuals and transgenders as a minority &#8212; and to represent them as large contributors to corporate America&#8217;s bottom line &#8212; has been successful&#8230;</font></p>
<p align="right"><a href="http://www.usareligiousnews.com/newsArticle.php?ID=1031"><strong>Continue reading at Agape Press&#8230;</strong></a></p>
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		<title>Wal-Mart Hires Pro-Homosexual Marketing Firm</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Sep 2006 02:41:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Excerpted from Wal-Mart Partners With Gay and Lesbian Group, by Mya Frazier, published Aug 24, 2006, by American Family Association:
&#8230;Wal-Mart hired Witeck-Combs Communications, a marketing  shop known for its work targeting the gay and lesbian consumer market, according  to Bob Witeck, president of the Washington-based firm&#8230;
Founded in 1993, the eight-person agency&#8217;s client list [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Excerpted from <a href="http://www.afa.net/walmartadage.htm"><em>Wal-Mart Partners With Gay and Lesbian Group</em></a>, by Mya Frazier, published Aug 24, 2006, by American Family Association:</p>
<p>&#8230;Wal-Mart hired Witeck-Combs Communications, a marketing  shop known for its work targeting the gay and lesbian consumer market, according  to Bob Witeck, president of the Washington-based firm&#8230;</p>
<p>Founded in 1993, the eight-person agency&#8217;s client list boasts  automotive brands Volvo, Land Rover, and Jaguar, in addition to American  Airlines, Citigroup and at least a dozen nonprofits, such as the American  Association of People with Disabilities.</p>
<p>Witeck-Combs, a member of the  NGLCC, is also a participant in the organization&#8217;s <strong>supplier-diversity  initiative, or SDI,</strong> a certification program launched this year and modeled after  minority- and women-supplier development programs. Corporate participants  already include IBM, American Airlines, Motorola and American Express.</p>
<p><img width="171" height="109" align="left" alt="Gay Walmart" id="image195" src="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2006/09/gaywalmart0824061.thumbnail.jpg" /> &#8230;As part of the Wal-Mart Stores partnership  with the <strong>NGLCC</strong>, Dee Breazeale, VP-divisional merchandising, Sam&#8217;s Club Jewelry,  has joined the organization&#8217;s Corporate Advisory Council and Wal-Mart will  sponsor two of the organization&#8217;s annual conferences.</p>
<p>Mr. Nelson said  Wal-Mart approached the organization four months ago, expressing interest in the  supplier-diversity initiative. &#8220;<strong>The expectation is that Wal-Mart will encourage  their core suppliers &#8212; the P&#038;G&#8217;s, the Johnson &#038; Johnson&#8217;s and the  Gillette&#8217;s &#8212; to also diversify their revenue streams to include LGTB  businesses</strong>,&#8221; Mr. Nelson said.</p>
<p>He said the retailer is &#8220;<strong>working right now  on providing domestic-partnership benefits</strong>&#8221; and that Wal-Mart may soon join the  261 members of the Fortune 500 that offer the benefits.</p>
<p><strong> <font color="#ff6600">The steps being taken by Wal-Mart are the strongest signal yet  that the company may be taking a permanent stand on the side of gay rights&#8230;</font></strong></p>
<p align="right"><a href="http://www.afa.net/walmartadage.htm"><strong>Continue reading at AFA&#8230;</strong></a></p>
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		<title>FOX News &amp; Wal-Mart Sponsor National Lesbian &amp; Gay Journalists Convention This Weekend</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Sep 2006 14:42:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sonja Dalton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Peter LaBarbera
Fox News and Wal-mart are among the high-level ($10,000) sponsors of the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association&#8217;s (NLGJA) 2006 Convention in Miami (Sept 7-10 at Loew&#8217;s Miami Beach Hotel). Every year, the NLGJA garners hundreds of thousands of dollars in Big Media sponsorships for its convention; this year it appears (based on [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>By Peter LaBarbera</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,77538,00.html">Fox News</a></strong> and <strong>Wal-mart</strong> are among the high-level ($10,000) sponsors of the <strong><a href="http://www.nlgja.org/convention/2006/index.html">National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association&#8217;s (NLGJA) 2006 Convention</a></strong> in Miami (Sept 7-10 at Loew&#8217;s Miami Beach Hotel). Every year, the NLGJA garners hundreds of thousands of dollars in Big Media sponsorships for its convention; this year it appears (based on the sponsorship list below) that the total is around half a milliion dollars in corporate support.</p>
<p>The NLGJA bills itself as merely a professional organization for journalists who &#8220;happen to be gay,&#8221; as the liberal cliche goes. But the organization advocates a pro-homosexual &#8220;spinning&#8221; of the news not unlike the activist group <a href="http://www.gladd.org"><strong>GLAAD</strong>, the <strong>Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation</strong></a>. Note, for example, the <a href="http://www.nlgja.org/news/26july06.htm">NLGJA&#8217;s advice to the media</a> regarding coverage of Lance Bass, the ‘N Sync band member who recently publicly revealed his homosexuality:</p>
<blockquote>
<ul>
<li>The term “gay” is the preferred adjective that has largely replaced “homosexual” in referring to men who are sexually and affectionally attracted to other men. “Homosexual” should be used only if “heterosexual” would be used in parallel constructions, such as in medical contexts.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Whether in headlines, teases, or body copy, try to avoid using forms of the word “admit,” which is typically used in the context of something shameful or illegal. Some examples of less potentially charged words are “announce,” “disclose” and “say.”</li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<p>While it is true that the “mainstream” (read: dominant liberal) media is so pro-homosexuality these days that it is hard to discern between media activism and plain old homosexual-group activism, that does not make it right. The media should play it down the middle on homosexuality and other controversial issues, not serve as a cheerleader for the “gay rights” cause.</p>
<p>Yet over the years, NLGJA members have repeatedly suggested that covering “both sides” of homosexuality-related issues is like quoting the KKK on stories about African Americans–a preposterous analogy especially considering that Blacks and minorities poll stronger against “gay marriage” than whites. Thus, if you think the Lance Bass advice above is tendentious, try this from <strong>NLGJA National President Eric Hegedus</strong> (a <a href="http://www.highschooljournalism.org/Students/Ask_A_Pro/Detail.cfm?askaproid=55">page designer for the Philadelphia Inquirer</a>), who <a href="http://www.nlgja.org/news/presidentmessagewinter06.htm">repeats the spurious white supremacist comparison on the journalist group&#8217;s website</a> (emphasis added):</p>
<blockquote><p>How appropriate is it to quote interviewees whose ideas could be considered homophobic?&#8230;  Certainly, news organizations have written extensively about white supremacists and other hate groups. For instance, in October we saw a flurry of stories about 13-year-old twins Lamb and Lynx Gaede, who use entertainment to promote the supremacist movement (“Young singers spread racist hate,” said a headline on the ABC News Web site).  But I doubt that any journalist is adding them to a source contact list for bringing “balance” to future stories about reparations, interracial marriage, the Holocaust or immigration. That same ethic needs to extend to LGBT coverage, too.</p></blockquote>
<p>Although not all NLGJA members may share Hegedus&#8217; view on this, clearly the NLGJA is an activist organization with a strong institutional bias against those espousing traditionalist views on homosexuality.</p>
<p>Our question for <strong><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,77538,00.html">Fox News</a></strong> executives is: if you are truly &#8220;fair and balanced,&#8221; will you now give an equal and corresponding grant to <strong>Americans for Truth</strong> or another pro-family organization, say, <strong>Accuracy in Media</strong>, that counters the ubiquitous pro-&#8221;gay&#8221; spin in the media? We&#8217;ll be awaiting your answer.</p>
<p><strong><font color="#ff6600">The following are corporate sponsors for this year’s NLGJA conference in Miami:</font></strong><br />
<font size="2"><font face="Arial"><br />
<strong> “Groundbreaker Level” &#8211; $35,000</strong></font></font></p>
<p><font size="2"><font face="Arial">• Miami Herald<br />
• El Nuevo Herald<br />
• McClatchy Co</font></font></p>
<p><strong><font size="2"><font face="Arial">“Headliner Level” &#8211; $25,000</font></font></strong></p>
<p><font size="2"><font face="Arial">• Planet Out<br />
• Harrah’s<br />
• Jet Blue</font></font></p>
<p><strong><font size="2"><font face="Arial">“Editorial Level” &#8211; $15,000</font></font></strong></p>
<p><font size="2"><font face="Arial">• MGM Mirage<br />
• BELO<br />
• CBS<br />
• CNN<br />
• Gannett Foundation<br />
• Hearst Corp<br />
• Coca Cola<br />
• Orbitz<br />
• US Newswire<br />
• ESPN<br />
• Verizon<br />
• Microsoft</font></font></p>
<p><strong><font size="2"><font face="Arial">“Feature Level” &#8211; $10,000</font></font></strong></p>
<p><font size="2"><font face="Arial">• NBC Universal<br />
• Key West<br />
• Gilead<br />
• Toyota<br />
• IBM<br />
• Passport<br />
• (illegible)<br />
• Bloomberg<br />
• Wal-Mart &#8211; [That’s right, the same Wal-Mart that recently gave $25,000 to National Gay &#038; Lesbian Chamber of Commerce is also sponsoring NLGJA–Ed.]<br />
• Sam’s Club<br />
• Fox News</font></font></p>
<p><strong><font size="2"><font face="Arial">“News Brief Level” &#8211; $5,000</font></font></strong></p>
<p><font size="2"><font face="Arial">• ABC News<br />
• GM<br />
• Greater Miami Convention &#038; Visitors Bureau<br />
• Hill &#038; Knowlton<br />
• Kimpton Hotels<br />
• Nielson Media Research<br />
• Q Syndicate<br />
• UBS<br />
• China Grill</font></font></p>
<p><strong><font size="2"><font face="Arial">“Source Level” &#8211; up to $5,000</font></font></strong></p>
<p><font size="2"><font face="Arial">• Los Angeles Times<br />
• Page &#038; Author<br />
• South Florida Black Journalists Association<br />
• South Florida Sun-Sentinel<br />
• Washington Post<br />
• Tribune Company</font></font></p>
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		<title>San Diego City Council Shames Itself Over Pride</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Excerpted from City Council Shames Itself Over Pride, by Nicholas Owen, published Aug 2006, in San Diego News Notes:
By Nicholas Owen
&#8230;The July 29 parade lasted over three hours and included 185 contingents. Many entries featured scantily clad participants, mostly men, gyrating suggestively to loud, throbbing music. Float titles included &#8220;In Dmood for Decadence.&#8221; Simulated sex [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Excerpted from <a href="http://www.sdnewsnotes.com/ed/articles/2006/0609no.htm"><em>City Council Shames Itself Over Pride</em></a>, by Nicholas Owen, published Aug 2006, in <em>San Diego News Notes</em>:</p>
<p>By Nicholas Owen</p>
<p>&#8230;The July 29 parade lasted over three hours and included 185 contingents. Many entries featured scantily clad participants, mostly men, gyrating suggestively to loud, throbbing music. Float titles included &#8220;In Dmood for Decadence.&#8221; <strong>Simulated sex acts were performed</strong> in several entries, and many <strong>advertised gay bars, pornography vendors, and male prostitution businesses.</strong> A rider in the Rentboy.com convertible flashed the devil sign with his hand. Handouts to parade spectators included condoms, sexual lubricant samples, and literature promoting a pornographic web site. Numerous trash receptacles bearing the slogan &#8220;Got lube?&#8221; (advertising an anal sex lubricant) were placed along the parade route and in the festival venue inside Balboa Park.</p>
<p><strong>The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a drag queen group in outlandish outfits parodying Catholic women religious, carried an &#8220;Asylum of the Tortured Heart&#8221; banner, mocking Catholic devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.</strong> At the Gay Pride festival, they provided crowd control and received an award for the &#8220;most outrageous contingent.&#8221;</p>
<p>A woman who was topless except for pasties walked alongside the parade. A man wearing a body thong covering only his genitals roller-skated by parade watchers in defiance of municipal code which prohibits nudity on public lands and defines it as being &#8220;devoid of an opaque covering which covers the genitals, pubic hair, buttocks, perineum, anus or anal region of any person, or any portion of the breast at or below the areola thereof of any female person.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8230;<strong>Several law enforcement and government agencies participated in the parade or had a booth at the festival, </strong>including San Diego Police Chief William Lansdowne, San Diego County Sheriff Bill Kolender, the San Diego Fire Department, the Chula Vista Police Department, the Oceanside Police Department, the Harbor Police, and the San Diego Regional Airport Authority.</p>
<p>&#8230;<strong>[S]ponsors included</strong> Hewlett-Packard, Wells Fargo Bank, Cox Communications, Viejas Casino, Sparkletts Water, Starbucks Coffee, Verizon, Sirius Satellite Radio Sempra Energy, iSOLD It, Great American Credit Union, Kaiser Permanente, Travelocity, Yahoo, Smirnoff, Bud Light, Avis Car Rentals, Glaceau Vitamin Water, and the Old Globe Theatre.</p>
<p>&#8230;<strong>Participating churches and synagogues included</strong> All Saints Parish and Saint John the Beloved Cathedral of the Catholic Church of America (not affiliated with the true Catholic Church); Dignity, another group using the Catholic label but not sanctioned by the Catholic Church; Christ Chapel of North Park; Saint Paul&#8217;s Episcopal Cathedral; Pilgrim United Church of Christ in Carlsbad; Temple Emanu-El and the Metropolitan Community Church, founded by a homosexual &#8220;leatherman.&#8221; Participating schools included San Diego State University, UCSD, Cal State University San Marcos, and the San Diego Cooperative Charter School.</p>
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