Photo: The Hershey Company / Facebook Michele Buck, CEO of chocolate manufacturer The Hershey Company, calmly shut down an anti-LGBTQ activist during a recent shareholder meeting.
Buck was challenged on Hershey’s corporate support of the Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest LGBTQ organization, LGBTQ Nation reports.
During the virtual meeting, Justin Danhof, general counsel for conservative think tank the National Center for Public Policy Research, demanded an end to Hershey’s donations to HRC, citing anti-LGBTQ talking points. “The HRC is perhaps the nation’s leading opponent of religious liberty,” Danhof said. “HRC threatens and organizes boycotts when states seek to enact laws protecting the right of people to act according to
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