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A recent Wells Fargo commercial that features a queer woman couple meeting their novel adopted daughter is receiving religious backlash, but the company has no plans to pull the ad.
The advertisement depicts two women education sign language while they prepare to adopt a hearing-impaired child. In response, Franklin Graham, son of televangelist Billy Graham, pulled the accounts of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association from Wells Fargo and urged other Christians to follow his lead.
"Have you ever asked yourself–how can we clash the tide of moral decay that is creature crammed down our throats by big business, the media, and the male lover & lesbian community?" Franklin Graham wrote on Facebook earlier this month.
"At the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, we are moving our accounts from Wells Fargo to another bank. This is one way we as Christians can speak out—we include the power of option. Let’s just stop doing business with those who promote sin and rise against Almighty God’s laws and His standards."
Graham chose BB&T of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, as a replacement but soon learned it too supports diversity among its customer
Wells Fargo: Ad with Gay Couple Reflects 'Demographic Reality'
Wells Fargo has taken the U.S. banking industry out of the advertising closet and it is strongly defending its efforts despite a prominent backlash.
The San Francisco bank started airing a television ad that features a lesbian couple adopting a deaf youth back in April, making it the first bank in the country to feature an LGBT couple in a national TV ad campaign.
The ad alienated some conservatives. The evangelist Franklin Graham in North Carolina, a son of the iconic preacher Billy Graham, recently drew media attention when he in response. Yet Wells is still running the commercial.
It is part of a nine-commercial series that also spotlights Latinos, African-Americans, Asian-Americans and small-business owners, in an effort to reach what the bank sees as an increasingly diverse customer base.
"If you look at some of the demographic data already in many of the major markets that we serve, the 'minority' is now the majority," Adv Fargo's chief marketing officer, Jamie Moldafsky, told American Banker. "So this is not a stretch it's very much a demographic reality."
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Prominent evangelist Franklin Graham is so unhappy with San Francisco-based Wells Fargo for an ad featuring a sapphic couple that he's switching his church's account to another less friendly-LGBT bank, or so he thought.
The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association president and CEO said he's moving the church's bank account from Wells Fargo to North Carolina-based bank BB&T -- a bank that scored an 80 percent in the Human Rights Campaign's Corporate Equality Index and is this year's sponsor of the Miami Beach Lgbtq+ Pride Parade.
"We also sustain the individuals and organizations that broaden our perspectives and strengthen the diverse fabric of our communities," BB&T Regional Multicultural Markets Officer Arthur Costa told the Miami Herald. "That's why BB&T is proud to be a part of this day of celebration and celebration of the 2015 Legacy Couples."
But it appears Graham didn't acquire the memo before flipping to BB&T and calling for Christians everywhere to boycott Wells Fargo in a Facebook post over the weekend.
"Let's just terminate doing business with those who promote sin and stand against Almighty God's laws and His standards," he wrote.
LGBT representation tied to greater economic prosperity, Wells Fargo economists find
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Two Wells Fargo economists state they’ve crunched the numbers and found that a state’s economic growth is “positively correlated with LGBT representation.”
“States with higher concentrations of people who recognize as gay, lesbian, fluid or transgender had higher rates of gross express product growth over the past decade, everything else being equal,” Wells Fargo economists Jay Bryson and Nicole Cerviwrote in a recent report that was issued with June’s Lgbtq+ fest Month in mind.
The two economists assessed each state’s growth and whether the LGBT community was over- or under-represented based on the proportion of its population identifying as LGBT, relative to the U.S. population. For example, Oregon in 2012 was place to 1.2% of the nation’s population but 1.7% of the country’s LGBT individuals. So Oregon had LGBT over-representation of 0.5% in 2012, the economists said. Based on similar calculations, South Carolina saw an under-representation by the LGBT community of 0.3%.
The premise that the size of a city or state’s LGBT community relates to its economic expansion h
Celebrating Pride
As Pride is celebrated in June, Wells Fargo is proud to honor the community’s historic past that laid the foundation for a more identical future. Our have Pride began over three decades ago in 1987 when we added sexual orientation to our non-discrimination policy. Then in 1992, we marched in our first Pride Procession, a tradition that has been noted with the people every year since.
Another way Wells Fargo honors the LGBTQ+ people is through our Pride Collection of debit card designs. This portfolio of images provides our customers and employees the opportunity to demonstrate their connection to the Queer community year-round. The initial collection of four designs was introduced in 2016, and the portfolio has since expanded to reflect the diversity and intersectionality of this diverse community.
“Members of this society are so incredibly diverse in how they choose to express themselves,” said John Lake, LGBTQ Segment Leader for Wells Fargo Marketing. “As the Diverse community continues to evolve, we long for to make sure that our products evolve as well.”
Currently the Pride Collection of debit card designs features six images, each with its own