America’s pro-homosexual giants: 2009

By WND Staff

Below is the list, in alphabetical order, of companies scoring a perfect 100 percent on the Human Rights Campaign’s 2009 Corporate Equality Index, with policies beneficial toward homosexuals:

  1. 3M Co.
  2. AAA Northern California, Nevada and Utah
  3. Abercrombie & Fitch
  4. Accenture Ltd.
  5. Aetna
  6. Agilent Technologies
  7. Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld
  8. Alaska Airlines
  9. Alcatel-Lucent
  10. Allianz Life Insurance Co. of North America
  11. Allstate Corp.
  12. Alston & Bird
  13. American Express
  14. Ameriprise Financial
  15. American Airlines
  16. Anheuser-Busch Companies
  17. Aon Corp.
  18. Apple
  19. Arent Fox LLP
  20. Arnold & Porter
  21. AT&T
  22. Bain & Co.
  23. Baker & Daniels LLP
  24. Bank of America
  25. Bank of New York Mellon Corp.
  26. Barnes & Noble
  27. BASF
  28. Bausch & Lomb
  29. Best Buy
  30. Bingham McCutchen
  31. BMC Software
  32. Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals
  33. Boeing
  34. Borders
  35. Boston Consulting Group
  36. BP America
  37. Bright Horizons Family Solutions
  38. Brinker International
  39. Bristol-Myers Squibb Co
  40. Brown Rudnick
  41. Bryan Cave
  42. Campbell Soup Co.
  43. Capital One
  44. Cardinal Health
  45. Cargill
  46. Carlson Companies
  47. Carmax
  48. Charles Schwab
  49. Chevron
  50. ChoicePoint
  51. Chrysler
  52. Chubb
  53. Cisco Systems
  54. Citigroup
  55. Clear Channel Communications
  56. Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton
  57. Clifford Chance US LLP
  58. Clorox
  59. CNA Insurance
  60. Coca-Cola
  61. Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc.
  62. Constellation Energy Group Inc.
  63. Continental Airlines
  64. Coors
  65. Corning
  66. Covington & Burling LLP
  67. Cox Enterprises
  68. Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP
  69. Credit Suisse
  70. Cummins
  71. Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
  72. Dell
  73. Deloitte & Touche
  74. Deutsche Bank
  75. Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP
  76. Diageo North America
  77. Dickstein Shapiro
  78. DLA Piper
  79. Dorsey & Whitney
  80. Dow Chemical
  81. DuPont
  82. Eastman Kodak
  83. eBay Inc.
  84. Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP
  85. Electronic Arts
  86. Eli Lilly & Co.
  87. Ernst & Young
  88. Estee Lauder
  89. Esurance
  90. Faegre & Benson
  91. Fannie Mae
  92. Foley & Lardner
  93. Foley Hoag
  94. Ford
  95. Freescale Semiconductor
  96. Fried, Frank, Haris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP
  97. GameStop
  98. Gap
  99. Genentech
  100. General Motors
  101. Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
  102. GlaxoSmithKline
  103. Hyatt
  104. Goldman Sachs
  105. Google
  106. Harrah’s
  107. Hartford Financial Services
  108. Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
  109. Haynes and Boone LLP
  110. Heller Ehrman
  111. Herman Miller
  112. Hewitt Associates
  113. Hewlett-Packard
  114. Hoffman-La Roche Inc.
  115. Holland & Knight
  116. Honeywell International
  117. Hospira
  118. Howrey LLP
  119. HSBC USA
  120. Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP
  121. IndyMac Bancorp
  122. ING North America Insurance
  123. Intel
  124. IBM
  125. Intuit
  126. J.C. Penney
  127. J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.
  128. Jenner & Block
  129. Johnson & Johnson
  130. Kaiser Permanente
  131. KeyCorp
  132. Kimberly Clark Corp.
  133. Kimpton Hotel & Restaurant Group
  134. Kirkland & Ellis
  135. KPMG
  136. Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel
  137. Latham & Watkins
  138. Lehman Brothers
  139. Levi Strauss
  140. Lexmark International
  141. Littler Mendelson PC
  142. Liz Claiborne
  143. Lockheed Martin Corp.
  144. Macy
  145. Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP
  146. Marriott International
  147. Marsh & McLennan Cos.
  148. Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance
  149. MasterCard
  150. McDermott Will & Emery
  151. McKinsey & Co.
  152. Merck & Co.
  153. Merrill Lynch & Co.
  154. MetLife
  155. Microsoft
  156. Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo
  157. Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams
  158. Morgan Stanley
  159. Morrison & Foerster
  160. Motorola
  161. National Grid USA
  162. Nationwide
  163. NCR
  164. New York Life Insurance Co.
  165. New York Times
  166. Newell Rubbermaid
  167. Nielsen Co.
  168. Nike
  169. Nixon Peabody
  170. Nordstrom
  171. Northern Trust
  172. Northrop Grumman
  173. Novartis Pharmaceutical Corp.
  174. O’Melveny & Myers
  175. Oracle
  176. Orbitz
  177. Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe
  178. Owens Corning
  179. Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP
  180. Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP
  181. Pepsi Bottling Group Inc.
  182. PepsiCo
  183. Perkins Coie
  184. Pfizer
  185. PG&E
  186. Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman
  187. Powell Goldstein
  188. PricewaterhouseCoopers
  189. Progressive Corp.
  190. Proskauer Rose LLP
  191. Prudential Financial
  192. Raymond James Financial
  193. Raytheon
  194. Recreational Equipment Inc.
  195. Replacements Ltd.
  196. Reynolds American Inc.
  197. Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi LLP
  198. Ropes & Gray LLP
  199. Sabre Holdings
  200. Schering-Plough
  201. Sears
  202. Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold LLP
  203. Sempra Energy
  204. Seyfarth Shaw LLP
  205. Shell Oil
  206. Sidley Austin
  207. Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
  208. Sodexho
  209. Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal
  210. Southern California Edison
  211. Sprint Nextel
  212. Squire, Sanders & Dempsey LLP
  213. Starbucks
  214. Starcom MediaVest
  215. Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide
  216. State Street Corp.
  217. Subaru of America
  218. Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
  219. Sun Life Financial Inc.
  220. Sun Microsystems
  221. SunTrust Banks
  222. Supervalu
  223. Symantec Corp.
  224. Target
  225. Tech Data
  226. Texas Instruments
  227. Thompson Coburn
  228. Time Warner
  229. TJX Cos.
  230. Toyota Financial Services
  231. Toyota Motor Sales USA
  232. Travelport
  233. Troutman Sanders
  234. U.S. Bancorp
  235. UBS AG
  236. Unilever
  237. United Business Media
  238. United Parcel Service
  239. US Airways Group
  240. Viacom
  241. Vinson & Elkins
  242. Visa
  243. Visteon Corp.
  244. Volkswagen of America
  245. Wachovia Corp.
  246. Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
  247. Walgreens
  248. Walt Disney
  249. Washington Mutual
  250. Weil, Gotshal and Manges
  251. Wells Fargo & Co.
  252. Whirlpool
  253. White & Case
  254. Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr
  255. Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
  256. Winston & Strawn
  257. Wyndham Worldwide
  258. Xerox
  259. Yahoo!