Watchdog Group: Conservatives Need to Speak Loud and Proud Like Liberals
A conservative corporate watchdog says more and more companies are siding with LGBT activists and opposing laws like North Carolina's bathroom law because they anticipate short-term gains and little backlash.
Justin Danhof, director of the National Center Free Enterprise Project, has attended shareholder meetings for more than five years to call for accountability on social issues.
He told CBN News "when I go to these corporate shareholder meetings I am very often the only conservative free-market voice in the entire room. There are dozens and dozens of activists from the Left."
Danhof said conservative consumers and activists need to aggressively target corporations just as the Human Rights Campaign and other lobbying groups on the Left have done for years.
"They don't hear from the conservatives," Danhof said. "They don't hear from the Christians and so they think they can ignore them."
Danhof recently attended the Pepsi shareholder meeting in New Bern, North Carolina. Pepsi has called publicly for the repeal of North Carolina's Public Facilities Privacy and Security Act, also known as H.B. 2.
He called on Pepsi CEO Indra Nooyi to work to bring both sides together on the issue.
"Pepsi holds a prominent role here in North Carolina," Danhof said at the meeting. "Why use that position to divide citizens against each other? Or, for that matter, some customers against the company?"
Danhof spoke more with CBN News about his work and where he thinks the corporate world is headed on social causes.