Disney Shareholders Nix Proposal to Cut Ties with Human Rights Commission

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Corporate Equality Index, which rates companies on their friendliness towards the LGBTQ community. Ratings are determined via surveys submitted to the HRC.

Companies are rated on nondiscrimination policies, benefits for LGBTQ workers, corporate culture and social responsibility. The Walt Disney Co.

currently holds a perfect 100 score, and has since 2007.The proposal was submitted by the National Center for Public Policy Research, through its Free Enterprise Project initiative, according to Variety.READ MORE: Tim Walz Mocks Anti-LGBTQ Book Bans During HRC Speech“The threat of a bad score is wielded against corporations to force them to do the political bidding of HRC and others (like GLSEN, the Trevor Project and GLAAD, which Disney also has paid partnerships with) that seek to sow gender confusion in children, encourage irreversible surgical procedures on confused teens, effectively eliminate girls’ and women’s sports and bathrooms, and roll back longstanding religious liberties,” the proposal read in part, according to Deadline.Only 7% of shareholders voted to approve the proposal, Deadline reported.

The HRC celebrated the news.“This vote gives us a clear statement of values from Disney’s shareholders. They know what we know – that despite all the noise, commitments to inclusion pay figurative dividends and help their literal bottom line,” Eric Bloem, Vice President of Corporate Citizenship at the Human Rights Campaign Foundation, said in a statement.Proposals like this are part of a anti-DEI campaign against a number of large corporations.