Companies towards the LGBT communtiy

In the blog 8 Companies That Don’t Support Gay Rights, by Amanda Chatel, Chatel listed 8 companies from Chick-Fil-A to Boy Scouts of America that are anti-gay. The audience is towards the LGBT community and people who are supportive of gay rights. To name a few starting with Chick-Fil-A, in 2012 CEO Dan Cathy claims to be very anti gay which caused the LGBT members protested and boycott, but sales did not go down but up 12%. The founder of Domino's Pizza is still blamed for being anti-gay in 2011, but he sold his company in 1998 and is still being haunted with the press while not being affiliated at all with Domino’s. The founder of Urban Outfitters, Richard Haynes doesn't want to lose any customers for being anti-gay since he donated to anti-gay charities so he decided to make shirts that say “I Support Same Sex Marriage” to try to not tarnish Urban Outfitters image as a clothing brand. Boy Scouts of America as we knows are the boy scouts who sell cookies on the side for donation towards their organization were surprisingly anti-gay, “The Boy Scouts of America live by two major rules: believing in God and not being gay. To not adhere to either one, means there is no place for you in the organization.” Chatel. After having a debate with open-minded board members, Boy Scouts of America decided to let openly gay boys join as of January 1st, 2014. I do agree with Amanda Chatel that we do need to change and progress as we get into the future,  if you are friendly and believe in equality it would be easier for everyone especially sales and customers. So will every company later on be gay-friendly? The answers will be depending on how open-minded these companies are and if they are able to adjust to today’s culture in America.

Pope Francis On Sexual Ethics

In the article Sex, Doubt and the Pope of The New York Times, Liberal Catholics are appalled when Pope Francis made his general point by saying "when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person? . . . In life, God accompanies persons, and we must accompany them, starting from their situation. It is necessary to accompany them with mercy." Paragraph 1. Liberal catholics want to keep the  sacrament of matrimony and views on how abortion is an abomination, however Pope Francis doesn't see gay marriage and abortion as a big issue compared to what really is going on in today’s age. I agree that Pope Francis believes that the Liberal Catholics are so obsessed with gay marriage and abortion that we don't see what the big problem really is which is our view to the poor, the elderly, and those without any resources. Pope Francis is what Pope's should be in the modern era: Simple, faithful, honest, hard-working, full of the Holy Spirit and reaching out to all the downtrodden. I believe that there should be legalizing changes in gay marriage and birth control, but abortion on the other hand shouldn't be.