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Top 10 Companies That Ignore First Amendment Rights

 

  1. Airbnb. Despite receiving the lowest overall rating, 2%, Airbnb has a policy prohibiting religious discrimination—but so do all the other Top 10 offenders. The online lodging service’s worst-place finish resulted from its failures to promote and respect different religious beliefs at work, to respect employees’ “charitable choice,” and to support free speech across politics, nonprofits, and other organizations.

 

  1. Alphabet. Second-place Alphabet, with an overall rating of 4%, forbade “claims that contradict authoritative, scientific consensus on climate change.” Alphabet, parent company of Google, also doesn’t have a policy “respecting employee charitable choice” and doesn’t support free speech across politics, nonprofits, and other organizations.

 

  1. Amazon. Tied for second place with a 4% rating, Amazon doesn’t “recognize” any religious employee resource group despite supporting organizations such as Black Employee Network and Glamazon, an LGBTQ+ group. Amazon also backs various entities that don’t support free speech or religious freedom.

 

  1. eBay. Following the trend, eBay, with a rating of 5%, claims not to discriminate based on religious beliefs, but acknowledges only employee resource groups that aren’t faith-based, such as United in Pride and Women at eBay.

 

  1. Microsoft. Despite acknowledging employee resource groups for LGBTQ+ individuals, women, and blacks, Microsoft didn’t acknowledge faith-based groups for employees. Microsoft, with a score of 5%, also supports entities that don’t back free speech or religious freedom.

 

  1. PayPal. Also rated at 5%, PayPal says it allows religious employee resource groups, saying the company created “a forum to celebrate all faiths and worldviews.” However, the index determined that the online payments company doesn’t protect free speech and discriminates against any charity not “in good standing with individual states such as California.”

 

  1. Pinterest. In addition to saying it doesn’t discriminate based on religious beliefs, Pinterest appears to support resource groups for religious employees—or at least such groups for Muslims. Despite being considered unlikely to endorse “litigation harmful to speech or religion,” the social media company scored 5% for not specifically defending religious freedom and free speech.

 

  1. Twitter. Also receiving a score of 5%, Twitter was faulted for not supporting entities that defend religious freedom and free speech, as well as for actively supporting court cases and laws that would harm both. It isn’t clear whether Twitter supports or discourages resource groups for religious employees.

 

  1. Disney. The entertainment giant, which also scored 5%, didn’t specify whether it supports resource groups for religious employees. But Disney doesn’t support religious charities, according to the index. Under “ineligible organizations” on its PDF for matching gifts, Disney includes as ineligible “faith-based organizations or religious programs whose primary purpose is promulgating a particular religious faith, creed or doctrine (e.g., ministries, missions, church planting projects, religious orders, schools whose primary purpose is to prepare students for ministry, etc.).” Yet Disney also has a policy of not discriminating against religious beliefs when hiring employees.

 

  1. Adobe. With a rating of 6%, the software company Adobe diverges from the other nine companies in being found by Alliance Defending Freedom not to support court cases that actively seek to curb free speech and religious freedom, as well as for including “viewpoint diversity” on a webpage.

 

moar: https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/05/23/top-10-companies-disrespect-religious-freedom-free-speech/