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Earlier this month, 30 LGBTQ activists sent a letter to the CEOs of tech companies asking them to cease donations to anti-LGBTQ politicians.
Google found itself on that list, as it has, through its corporate PACs, given a combined $178,500 to politicians who scored zeros on the HRC legislative scorecard, BuzzFeed News reported.
Those donations include contributions to Utah Republican Sen. Mike Lee, who said that the progressive agenda “rejects the enviable right to life according to one’s religious convictions, and is utterly blind to the moral and economic consequences of our nation’s growing marriage crisis.”
The company also donated to Iowa Republican Rep. Steve King, who went after state Supreme Court justices who ruled against his state’s same-sex marriage ban, and has since asked what’s so wrong and offensive about terms like “white nationalist” and “white supremacist.”
“These corporations create welcoming and safe environments for their LGBTQ employees and market to LGBTQ customers,” Lane Hudson, the campaign manager for Zero for Zeros, which analyzed the data, told BuzzFeed.
“But they’re still giving to members of Congress who will make an America that is unsafe for all of us, and we want them to reconcile their values with their corporate giving.”
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