{"id":6793,"date":"2012-07-03T10:00:13","date_gmt":"2012-07-03T09:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/?p=6793"},"modified":"2012-07-09T10:03:44","modified_gmt":"2012-07-09T09:03:44","slug":"general-mills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/2012\/07\/03\/general-mills\/","title":{"rendered":"General Mills Gets Huge Outpouring of Support for Marriage Equality Stance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hrc.org\/blog\/entry\/general-mills-gets-huge-outpouring-of-support-for-marriage-equality-stance\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6794\" title=\"General Mills Gets Huge Outpouring of Support for Marriage Equality Stance\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/120709_gm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a>Last week General Mills CEO Ken Powell took a bold stand in support of  equality, announcing the company opposed Minnesota\u2019s proposed  constitutional amendment which seeks to ban marriage equality for  committed gay and lesbian couples. To show our support of the Fortune  500 Company, HRC launched a petition thanking General Mills.  To date, more than 80,000 people have signed our petition as well as  another petition by the Minnesotans United campaign supporting the  cereal giant. In contrast, the anti-equality National Organization for  Marriage (NOM) launched a petition denouncing General Mills. Only 17,000  people have signed on \u2014 nearly five times fewer than HRC\u2019s and MN  United\u2019s petitions. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hrc.org\/blog\/entry\/general-mills-gets-huge-outpouring-of-support-for-marriage-equality-stance\" target=\"_blank\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>News selected by Covalence | Country: USA |  Company: General Mills\u00c2\u00a0 | Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hrc.org\/blog\/entry\/general-mills-gets-huge-outpouring-of-support-for-marriage-equality-stance\" target=\"_blank\">Human Rights Campaign<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week General Mills CEO Ken Powell took a bold stand in support of equality, announcing the company opposed Minnesota\u2019s proposed constitutional amendment which seeks to ban marriage equality for committed gay and lesbian couples. To show our support of the Fortune 500 Company, HRC launched a petition thanking General Mills. To date, more than&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_post_series":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[261],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-6793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-general-mills","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6793"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=6793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}