Fox News donated money to several left-leaning advocacy organizations, including The Satanic Temple, according to a recent report, as the network comes under fire for its behind-the-scenes embrace of LGBT ideology and other progressive causes. Fox News has developed a reputation as the go-to media outlet for conservative Americans. However, whistleblowers who either currently work at or once worked at the media outlet recently said that Fox News’ parent company is willing to match donations of up to $1,000 to several left-wing advocacy groups through its “Fox Giving” app.
Blaze Media’s Director of Programming Rikki Ratliff-Feldman spoke with two Fox News employees and one former Fox News producer who revealed that the company matches donations to three notoriously liberal advocacy organizations: abortion provider Planned Parenthood, LGBT activist group the Trevor Project and the Southern Poverty Law Center. Fox also matches donations to The Satanic Temple, which is known for its After School Satan Club launched to counter the Good News Club.
Screenshots provided in the Blaze report back up the whistleblowers’ accounts. A close-up screenshot of the company portal’s page offering employees the opportunity to donate to Planned Parenthood describes the company as “a respected leader in educating Americans about reproductive and sexual health.” The portal makes no mention of the company’s role in performing nearly 400,000 abortions in fiscal year 2021-'22. As for the Southern Poverty Law Center, the organization came under fire recently for listing the parental rights group Moms for Liberty on its “hate map” alongside the Ku Klux Klan. The SPLC has developed a reputation for labeling opponents of progressive ideology as “hate groups.”
Ratliff-Feldman reported that “I watched one source physically log in to their company portal, at Myfox.okta.com to confirm the giving app and to see some of the questionable charities and the donation match option for myself to verify nothing was photoshopped.” The former producer who spoke with Blaze Media cited the company’s willingness to match donations to the far-left advocacy groups as evidence of “complete disregard and hatred for Fox’s core audience, which is a huge part of the country.”
While some can argue that as long as the company is consistently matching donations to other groups as well, then it is not a big deal. However, Fox’s internal donation policy stresses that the company “will not match or provide volunteering rewards to: Donations to organizations that discriminate on the basis of a personal characteristic or attribute, including, but not limited to, age, disability, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity characteristics or expression, marital status, … pregnancy or medical condition either in its selection of recipients of the organization’s services, funds, or other support; in delivery of services or in its employment practices.” Additionally, the company does not match “donations made to organizations that are private and non-operating, or political, religious, or fraternal in nature.”
This means that Fox is fine with donating to these liberal leaning groups but will not match the same type of conservative leaning groups because they are “political or religious” in nature. How can Christian groups be considered religious, but the Satanic Temple not be considered religious? It is a double standard that makes no logical sense. It is clear that the head of the company making these decisions is picking and choosing which organizations they will support and not support, even while claiming to be a neutral or even a conservative leaning organization.
Biblical Connections: 2 Corinthians 11:14 states “And no wonder! For Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light.” Satan has always attempted to make himself seem as a legitimate option in comparison to God and yet true believers know that this is clearly a deception that only fuels the powers of sin and darkness.
PRAY - Pray that these companies that donate to radical anti-Christian agendas will see the error in their ways.