By Financially Supporting The HRC, “Hershey Is 100% Complicit In Its Vile, Bigoted And Reprehensible Actions,” Says FEP’s Danhof

Washington, D.C. – Hershey CEO Michele Buck aligned herself and the company strongly on the side of pro-LGBTQ activists in responding today to a Free Enterprise Project (FEP) question about the chocolate maker’s support of the Human Rights Campaign (HRC).

During the company’s virtual annual shareholder meeting, Justin Danhof, Esq., General Counsel of the National Center for Public Policy Research and Director of its Free Enterprise Project, asked Buck:

Hershey is one of the leading sponsors of the Human Rights Campaign. HRC is perhaps the nation’s leading opponent of religious liberty. HRC threatens and organizes boycotts when states seek to enact laws protecting the right of people to act according to their faith or to use a bathroom in privacy that matches their DNA. HRC also works to dictate corporate philanthropy away from conservative and Christian organizations.

At a time when our nation needs to pull together as one to overcome the COVID-19 pandemic and reopen the economy, will you reconsider your funding of this bigoted, anti-religious organization that works to tear Americans apart?

After the meeting, Danhof added:

The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) is perhaps the most influential left-wing organization that most Americans have never heard of, and that needs to end. HRC staff spend their days trying to end religious freedom and marginalize all Americans of faith. HRC staff spend their days working to make sure that fully-grown adult males can use the same public and private restrooms and changing facilities as young girls. And HRC staff spend their days dedicated to defunding pro-life politicians and Christian nonprofit organizations. As long as it continues to fill HRC’s coffers with its investors’ hard-earned money, Hershey is 100 percent complicit in these vile, bigoted and reprehensible actions. If the company had any shame, it would end its funding of this extremist organization now.

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