"I believe if two people want to commit to each other, God bless 'em," Jeanne Phillips (AKA Dear Abby) told The Associated Press. "That is the highest form of commitment, for heaven's sake."
She goes on to say, "If gay Americans are not allowed to get married and have all the benefits that American citizens are entitled to by the Bill of Rights, they should get one hell of a tax break. That is my opinion."
Read the whole article on Gay.com here.
General Wesley Clark states President Bush's bad leadership inspired him to write his new book.
The annual Corporate Equality Index (CEI) from the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) is now available for download. Read it here.
The results? 195 companies received a perfect score -- a 41% increase from 2007. 15 of these companies appeared in the CEI for the first time.
Wal-mart slipped from 65% last year to 40% in 2008. Why? In response to conservative critics, Wal-mart no longer supports GLBT organizations. Their new stance is to not to "support or oppose highly controversial issues." Read more about Wal-mart's GLBT policies here.
The worst:
As most of us know, Congress has been having hearings about the recent toxic toy recalls. They've summoned Toys "R" Us and Mattel, which makes sense: Toys "R" Us sells 18% of the toys in the United States and Mattel is one of the largest toy distibutors in the U.S. (notice I said "distributor" and not "manufacturer." Like most companies these days, Mattel can't afford to manufacture their own toys cheap enough to sell to Wal-mart; so they outsource to Chinese factories, who outsource to other factories, etc.)
Why wasn't Wal-mart asked to be a part of the toxic toys hearings? They sell more toys in the U.S. than Toys "R" Us does; in fact, they almost sell twice as many toys. Wal-mart sells 30% of the countries toys vs. 18% at Toys "R" Us. So why wasn't Wal-mart a part of the hearings? One word: lobbying.
Read more about Wal-mart & the Congressional Safety hearings here.
Curious about the relationship between China and Wal-mart? Read more here.
