ISSUESActress Melissa McCarthy rescinds donation from anti-sex trafficking org rumored to be pro-life
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ISSUESActress Melissa McCarthy rescinds donation from anti-sex trafficking org rumored to be pro-life
By Nancy Flanders | November 17, 2020 , 09:43amMelissa McCarthy, Exodus Cry
Actress Melissa McCarthy this week retracted and apologized for a $20,000 donation HBO Max gave to an anti-sex trafficking organization in honor of her 20 Days of Kindness campaign. That organization, Exodus Cry, is an independent non-profit with consultative status at the United Nations. According to the group, it “exists to combat sex trafficking and all forms of commercial sexual exploitation both domestically and internationally.”
But for McCarthy, there was a problem. “It has come to our attention that our 20 Days of Kindness, which is something — a kindness up that we started to kind of shine a light on 20 great charities — had one in there that, there’s no other way to say it, we blew it,” said McCarthy in an Instagram video. “We made a mistake and we backed a charity that upon proper vetting, stands for everything that we do not.” (emphasis added)
McCarthy is referring to attacks against Exodus Cry for allegedly “campaigning against women’s rights” and being “anti-LGBTQ+.” According to the organization, a major source of those attacks is coming from supporters of Pornhub, a pornographic video sharing website, and the largest pornography website on the Internet, owned by MindGeek. It includes professional and amateur pornography, and users can upload videos of their own — which are unable to be verified for the age or consent of the individuals in them. Exodus Cry addresses these attacks on its website
https://www.liveaction.org/news/melissa-mccarthy-rescinds-donation-anti-sex-trafficking/