Major defense contractor Lockheed Martin announced Thursday that it will phase out employee resource groups, which divide workers along racial, LGBTQ, and activism lines, after President Donald Trump’s recent executive orders and after shareholders expressed concern about an anti-Christian double standard.
“As we shared in January, Lockheed Martin took immediate action to ensure compliance with President Trump’s Executive Order 14173, encouraging merit-based talent management practices within U.S. companies,” Lockheed Martin Chairman, President, and CEO Jim Taiclet said in an email to staff shared with The Daily Signal.
The executive order, issued Jan. 21, declared that “diversity, equity, and inclusion” efforts in the federal government, companies, the medical industry, higher education, and other places can violate federal civil rights laws, which bar…
