On Wednesday, Franklin Graham called out PayPal for its hypocritical corporate stances. PayPal announced Tuesday that it was canceling plans to open a Charlotte, North Carolina, global operations center after the state passed anti-LGBT laws.
But Graham pointed out on Facebook that PayPal already does business with countries that have anti-LGBT laws in place. Graham said, “PayPal operates in countries including Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, and Yemen for Pete’s sake. Just last month PayPal announced they would be expanding in Cuba, a country in which homosexuals and transgender people have been imprisoned, tortured, and executed. PayPal only agreed to come to Charlotte in the first place after holding out for millions in corporate incentives. And under the current law that they are so strongly protesting, PayPal could have chosen their own corporate bathroom policies.”
Michael Brown called out this same hypocritical stance, arguing, “PayPal has now sent a loud and clear message to America: The common sense values of conservative Americans should be scorned; the destructive values of Cuban Communists, including decades of human rights abuses that continue to this hour, should be embraced.”
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