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Lord, we thank You for the push, socially and legally, against DEI and ESG policies. We pray that more companies like Lowe's would back away from these divisive, unbiblical policies.
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Lowe’s has joined a long list of companies backing away from DEI and ESG policies amid social and legal backlash.

From The Washington Post. Lowe’s is the latest big company to alter its diversity, equity and inclusion policies amid pressure from conservative podcast host and activist Robby Starbuck.

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Starbuck, who has been waging campaigns against corporate DEI programs, approached Lowe’s last week, telling the company he planned to target the home-improvement giant over policies such as their employee resource groups and donations to Pride events. The company responded Monday with preemptive changes, Starbuck said in a post on X.

Starbuck said Lowe’s is committed to ending identity-based employee resource groups and replacing them with a single group for employees of all backgrounds. Lowe’s also plans to limit its sponsorship to issues related to its business, such as affordable housing and disaster relief; end participation in Pride and other socially related community events; and stop submitting data to the Human Rights Campaign, he wrote.

The company joins firms such as Harley-Davidson, Tractor Supply and Deere in reining in their DEI programs in recent months after being targeted by Starbuck amid a broader corporate reassessment of a fast-shifting legal landscape marked by rising risk. Companies are increasingly facing pressure to scale back or do away with DEI initiatives from both external critics and U.S. courts as a wave of legal action challenges policies at scores of companies, including giants such as Starbucks, Meta and Pfizer. …

Many firms have acted preemptively to guard against the legal threats, leading some to recast or discard race-based initiatives. …

Still, most Americans approve of DEI, according to an April poll from The Post and Ipsos. Roughly 6 in 10 Americans said that diversity, equity and inclusion programs are “a good thing” …

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(Excerpt from The Washington Post. Photo Credit: TaurusEmerald – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=92611494)

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Darlene Estlow
September 2, 2024

Thank you for this article. I pray that God would bless these companies and send them able employees.

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