It's Thursday, September 12, 2024. I'm Albert Moeller and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. There's been a

good deal of attention, especially in the business world, to supposed pullbacks

from DEI initiatives on the part of major American corporations. This is a huge story, lots of

worldview implications. DEI means diversity, equity, and inclusion and

and DEI programs, DEI offices have been leaning into identity politics and frankly a very

leftist agenda separating people according to identity, ethnicity, all kinds of criteria, and basically putting into place

programs that in so many cases really aren't about doing the right thing so much as

overthrowing an established moral order. I mean it exactly that way. And so it comes down to

LGBTQ issues that's at the top of the list in terms of the activism. People claiming you need to have representation

and this means inclusion in order to meet the standard for inclusion. You need to change

these policies in such a way, well you can pretty much figure out where this goes.

And major American corporations, and this has been a problem for decades now,

getting more intense all the time. In major American corporations, you have many

Christians in the executive or say the sub-executive ranks

and they're being told that if you don't have the right beliefs and you're not willing to just

absolutely affirm the inclusion policies pro-Lgib tQ and by that I mean

extremely pro-Lgib tQ and all the rest then you don't have a future in this company and

furthermore there have been external rating agencies.

This has been very important.

A lot of this has come from academia in terms of the pressure and activist groups.

And yet some of it's also been coming major energy has been coming from groups such as the human rights campaign.

That is a pro-Lg LGBTQ movement that has been leveraging influence in business.

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