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Nike’s Christian shareholders’ anti-LGBTQ+ vote fails · PRIDE Daily

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  Speaker 2: Hi there, I'm Kev McGrath. Coming up, we're out in
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  Speaker 2: South Korea. First though, Some of Nike's Christian shareholders have
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  Speaker 2: failed in their efforts to come after the firm for
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  Speaker 2: its LGBTQ plus advocacy. A group called Inspire Investing has
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  Speaker 2: tried to force an investigation into how being inclusive affects
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  Speaker 2: brand value, talking about the likes of collabs with transgender
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  Speaker 2: influencers and partnering with queer rights groups. This has been
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  Speaker 2: put to the vote at Nike's annual meeting, amassing support
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  Speaker 2: from a whopping less than 1% of shareholders. Investor Tim
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  Speaker 2: Schwarzenberger's the mouthpiece for this folly.
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  Speaker 1: We just felt like Nike was getting involved way too
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  Speaker 1: much into politics and they have a long track record
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  Speaker 1: of doing that. Ads with Dylan Mulvaney. So we just,
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  Speaker 1: we wanted Nike to do an assessment on whether the
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  Speaker 1: board and whether their leadership has assessed the risks of
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  Speaker 1: them getting involved in these partnerships.
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  Speaker 2: The Christians also wanted rid of gender-affirming care from employees'
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  Speaker 2: regardless of what the law currently says, this should be
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  Speaker 2: permitted in an emergency or if a partner's incapacitated, all
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  Speaker 2: to do with a case that's ongoing, challenging legislation that
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  Speaker 2: only covers straight married couples. Pride Daily. And South Korea's
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  Speaker 2: Supreme Court's ruled outing someone can be defamation, even if
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  Speaker 2: it's true. It comes off the back of a case
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  Speaker 2: in which a blogger made a politician's sexuality public, and
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  Speaker 2: he's actually been acquitted on appeal. Usually defamation's about false claims,
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  Speaker 2: but judges say if the intent of outing someone is
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  Speaker 2: to damage the reputation, bearing in mind prejudice in society,
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  Speaker 2: then it does meet the criteria. No time to tell
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