Conservatives like to pile on Pope Francis — sometimes even we do too — but when he’s right, he’s right and he is right about turning “capitalism” into some kind of idol. 
Here are 37 American businesses that wildly celebrated Friday’s (June 26) nonsensical 5-4 ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court forbidding states to restrict a marriage to one man and one woman.
Leave aside that the ruling isn’t going to help anyone’s bottom line. Leave aside that it further endangers our already endangered Social Security program. Leave aside it complicates corporate human resources divisions and increases the cost of benefits programs.
It was hip and gives the rich, spoiled, never-bloodied ones who run corporate America to shout “Let us break their chains and throw off their shackles.”
The recognition that homosexuality is a sin is a rather small part of the Bible and, despite what some Democrats claim, God does not hate gays. Rejecting that one part, though, gives license to reject the whole thing.
Taking care of the poor and loving your neighbor for examples.
Victor David Hanson, a week ago, published a heartbreaking column on PJMedia.com describing how the water crisis and environmental fanaticism are causing people to literally abandon their homes in the working class interior of California while the gated-community hipsters in Silicon Valley and Hollywood enjoy rich lawns and expansive carbon footprints.
The people who run America’s institutions whether business, academic or political truly don’t care about gays as individuals unless that particular gay can be of some benefit to them, and they don’t care about non-gays either.
So kudos Pope Francis for having the insight to spell it out.
And what is the Pope’s position on gay marriage? It’s pretty clear.
Well, those companies’ reaction puts the lie to the Left’s/Progressives’ dogma that corporations are conservative. With certain exceptions, they most certainly are not. They exist to make a profit for their shareholders, first and foremost. And, generally speaking, a corporation will do whatever its directors think will increase their profits. That usually doesn’t include taking a moral stand of any kind.