Cal Thomas: Pronoun police come to campus

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Today is Thursday, June 1st. Good morning! This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Myrna Brown.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: And I’m Mary Reichard. For many, today marks the beginning of Pride Month–a whole month set aside to celebrate LGBTQ+ values. But some retailers like Target and Kohls are getting pushback from conservatives. World commentator Cal Thomas takes a look at two other corporations with woke policies.

CAL THOMAS, COMMENTATOR: What is the primary purpose of corporations? It is to make money for their owners, the employees they hire who pay taxes, and their stockholders. It is also to provide goods or services to as many consumers as possible. Would a corporation knowingly do anything to harm these objectives? Only if it wanted to commit economic suicide.

And yet that is precisely what a growing number of U.S. corporations are doing as they bow the knee to the LGBTQ activists. You've heard what Target, Kohls, and now even Chick-fil-A have done.

Yes, Chick-fil-A, the company supported by many Christians and conservatives. When it stood against unjustified criticism by the LGBTQ crowd activists, people lined up to buy their sandwiches in what I call the opposite of a boycott–a pro-cott. Now, many are realizing for the first time that the company has a meaningless initiative called Better at Together in which it wraps itself in the Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity agenda.

And then there's Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, one of the most famous and professional medical facilities in the nation. They–can I say that without asking?–they have decided to offer employees the choice of 50 different pronouns as part of their identity name tags. Some of them are unpronounceable to me. One wonders where they got them and how many employees will choose them. Statements about cultural awareness are included in a statement by the hospital's diversity person.

What's next? And you can be sure there will be a next.

Without a standard, anything goes. Without God, anything is not only possible, but probable. Paul the Apostle rightly stated that as the end times approach, people will believe whatever their itching ears want to hear. The ears of many have never itched so much as they are today.

God help us. No one else can or will.

I'm Cal Thomas.

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