WorldNetDaily has long championed the alleged right of businesses to discriminate against gay people. An October 2023 article, for example, hyped the alleged “years-long assault by leftists” against baker Jack Phillips for refusing to bake cakes for LGBT people, deeming it to be an issue of “freedom of speech for Christian business owners.” But WND is now claiming that alleged discrimination the other way is suddenly a bad thing. Joe Kovacs wrote in a Jan. 26 article:
In the wake of President’s Donald Trump’s assertion that U.S. banks are debanking Americans with conservative political views, Congress is now investigating.
The matter was discussed on “Sunday Morning Futures” with Maria Bartiromo on the Fox News Channel, as she asked House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky.: “Are you investigating whether or not U.S. banks are debanking conservatives?”
“Yes, we are,” Comer replied. “We’ve heard numerous instances of conservatives being debanked.
“And what we want to know is, is this a process of the banks’ ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) policy? Is, or is this our government stepping in like what we found with Twitter and Facebook where the government stepped in and said they wanted certain conservatives deplatformed and censored and certain conservative content removed.
“We want to know, again, is this government involvement, another dirty trick by the Joe Biden administration, or this just bad liberal policy that discriminates against conservatives by the banks.”
Kovacs didn’t reference its advocacy for right-wing homophobes who refuse to do business with gay people, or explain why that’s perfectly fine but banks are not similarly allowed to choose who they do business with.