Major Texas Corporations Unite For LGBT Rights

[TexasTowelie]

With more than 20 anti-LGBT bills pending in the Texas Legislature, a coalition of major employers in the state — including Dell, Samsung and Southwest Airlines — is making the business case for fair treatment of gay, bisexual and transgender people.

More than 50 businesses have joined the coalition, called Texas Competes, by signing a pledge saying LGBT inclusion is essential to maintaining the Texas brand, attracting top talent and new companies to the state, and supporting a healthy tourism industry.

The full list of businesses, which includes 13 from the Fortune 500, will be unveiled Tuesday at a press conference in Austin featuring representatives from the Texas Association of Business, South By Southwest and the Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce.

Texas Competes spokesman James Shackelford said the coalition won’t take positions on specific legislation and that the effort has been in the works for months, long before anti-LGBT religious freedom laws in Indiana and Arkansas sparked historic backlash from the corporate sector.

Read more: http://www.texasobserver.org/major-texas-corporations-unite-for-lgbt-rights/

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

1. Fantastic, fight bigoted assholes with green

[misterhighwasted]

2. Thanks TxTowelie!! About time the Tx GOP is shown who really wears the pants in Texas.

These Corporations & Companies owe those Texas legislature bigots absolutely nothing.
I thank the business community for calling them out on their stupid bigotry.

[northoftheborder]

3. This is good news.

I hope these corporates and other businesses put their money where it should have been in the last state election: with those intrepid Democrats who ran against the bigots in office now. I'd be willing to bet they didn't.

[blkmusclmachine]

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