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CV NEWS FEED // The Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) has sent letters to each Fortune 100 company, urging them to end Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) policies, especially in light of the 2024 presidential election.
ADF reports that a coalition of investors, financial advisors, and the State Financial Officers Foundation also signed the letters.
ADF states, “The letter highlights the mounting legal and reputational risk of divisive DEI policies and calls on companies to distance themselves from DEI and from far-left social credit scoring systems.”
They cited the Human Rights Campaign’s “Corporate Equality Index” as one of the problematic scoring systems.
The letter also pointed out that DEI policies are falling out of favor, as evidenced by the election of Republican officials who oppose the policies.
“With both houses of Congress soon under Republican control,” the letter states, “a Trump-Vance administration will likely advance and enact policies that increase the risk of current DEI policies at every corporation.”
ADF Senior Counsel and Senior Vice President of Corporate Engagement Jeremy Tedesco stated that Americans sent a powerful message in the 2024 election.
“They’re tired of divisive ideologies like DEI that pit people against each other because of their skin color or deeply held beliefs. Corporate leaders need to learn this same lesson,” Tedesco said. “Divisive DEI policies and short-sighted commitments to radical political agendas demanded by far-left groups like the Human Rights Campaign’s so-called ‘Corporate Equality Index’ are a liability to any company.”
Over the past year, conservative activist Robby Starbuck led a public campaign exposing the “woke” policies of American companies. As CatholicVote previously reported, the campaign led multiple companies, including Stanley Black and Decker, Lowes, Harley-Davidson, and Jack Daniels, to abandon these policies.
