Hershey’s CEO smacked down an activist who wanted the company to stop donating to HRC

A replica of the Statue of Liberty at Hershey’s Chocolate World in New York New York hotel in Las Vegas (Photo by: Supercarwaar – Wikimedia Commons)

During last week’s virtual annual shareholder meeting of the Hershey Company, the food products conglomerate best known for its chocolate, an anti-LGBTQ activist asked the company’s CEO whether she would stop the company’s funding of the Human Rights Campaign, the largest LGBTQ organization in the United States.

The CEO dismissed the hater, saying the company valued diversity more than anti-LGBTQ bigotry.

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Justin Danhof, the anti-LGBTQ general counsel of the so-called National Center for Public Policy Research and director of the Free Enterprise Project, said to Hershey’s CEO Michele Buck, “The HRC is perhaps the nation’s leading opponent of religious liberty. HRC threatens and organizes boycotts when states seek to enact laws protecting the right of people to act according to their faith or to use a bathroom in privacy that matches their DNA.”

To be clear, Danhof is speaking about so-called “religious freedom” laws that seek to give Christians a legal pass for discriminating against queer people under the guise of “sincerely held religious beliefs,” a position supported by the Trump administration….

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