(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) Anheuser-Busch, the owner of Bud Light, was removed from a prominent LGBTQ organization’s equity index because the firm failed to defend Dylan Mulvaney.
After Bud Light released an ad with Mulvaney, conservatives pushed back against the “transgender” propaganda, which resulted in the company losing a lot of money, with the company trying to restore its brand, unsuccessfully, according to the Daily Wire.
The company never defending Mulvaney resulted in the Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest LGBTQ political organization, removing the firm’s perfect score on the Corporate Equality Index. The group described the Index as the “national benchmarking tool on corporate policies, practices and benefits pertinent to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer employees.”
USA Today obtained the letter from Eric Bloem, senior director of programs and corporate advocacy at the Human Rights Campaign, who informed executives at Anheuser-Busch that the firm has 90 days to respond before the company’s score is docked.
“Anheuser-Busch had a key moment to really stand up and demonstrate the importance of their values of diversity, equity and inclusion and their response really fell short,” Bloem said.
He added that the company’s move to back away from Mulvaney in the face of backlash shows employees, shareholders and customers that Anheuser-Busch does not “stand for diversity.”
Previously, Anheuser-Busch CEO Brendan Whitworth released a statement that not only didn’t say anything but also failed to mention Mulvaney in any way.
“We never intended to be part of a discussion that divides people,” Whitworth wrote. “We are in the business of bringing people together over a beer.”
In a statement to CNN on Friday, Jay Brown, senior vice president of programs, research, and training at the Human Rights Campaign, said that the organization was troubled by the fact that the company quickly abandoned its “transgender” propaganda.
“When we saw the company working with Dylan, that was a good sign. It was a sign of inclusion,” Brown said. “What we were really disturbed by was the company’s reaction once the backlash started happening.”
