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Many of us go about our daily lives without giving much thought to the companies we patronize, but what if your morning coffee run or your trip to the grocery store was quietly funding policies that harm children?
This isn’t a hypothetical. It’s all documented in a new report on the Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index (CEI) — a benchmarking tool launched in 2002 that rates companies on their implementation of LGBT inclusion policies. That may seem harmless enough, but the CEI goes far beyond preventing workplace discrimination. Companies earn points for covering IVF, surrogacy, and gender transition procedures (including for minors), and for financially supporting organizations that promote these practices.
In other words, when you buy a burrito at taco chain, there’s a real chance your dollars are flowing through a corporate benefits pipeline that funds cross-sex hormones for gender-confused kids or subsidizes surrogacy arrangements that intentionally separate children from their biological mother or father.
This is not a neutral policy framework. It reflects a very specific answer to some very fundamental questions — what is a child, where do children come from, and what do they need? For most of human history, those answers were obvious. Children come from a man and a woman, and they flourish best when raised by the mother and father who brought them into the world. The CEI replaces that reality with a marketplace vision in which children are simply products of adult wishes — outcomes to be achieved.
IVF encourages mass production and eugenic screening of embryos. Surrogacy substitutes contracts for relationships. Gender transition coverage tells children their own bodies are optional. And big corporations are rewarded with perfect scores for embracing all of it.
The Christian worldview cuts through this confusion. We are embodied souls, male and female, designed by God. Children are image-bearers — not lifestyle choices!
The good news in all this is we have more power as consumers than we think. Make sure to choose wisely for your next (inevitable) string of home repair trips to the hardware store. Shop carefully and truthfully, and no matter what, don’t let big corporations browbeat you into believing the Corporate Equality Index is about valuing equality. We must treasure the values that protect our families.
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