{"id":22570,"date":"2015-07-08T12:10:17","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T16:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/marriott-ceo-we-have-to-protect-our-right-to-welcome-everybody\/"},"modified":"2015-07-08T12:10:17","modified_gmt":"2015-07-08T16:10:17","slug":"marriott-ceo-we-have-to-protect-our-right-to-welcome-everybody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/marriott-ceo-we-have-to-protect-our-right-to-welcome-everybody\/","title":{"rendered":"Marriott CEO: \u201cWe Have to Protect Our Right to Welcome Everybody\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Marriott CEO: \u201cWe Have to Protect Our Right to Welcome Everybody\u201d<\/b><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hrc-assets.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/\/files\/images\/blog\/marriott-linkedin-ceo-blog263.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>                        Marriott International CEO and President Arne Sorenson sat down with LinkedIn this week to discuss why it is vital for companies to speak out in support of issues like marriage equality.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/HRC.org\" class=\"autohyperlink\">HRC.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hrc.org\/blog\/entry\/marriott-ceo-we-have-to-protect-our-right-to-welcome-everybody?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss-feed\" class=\"autohyperlink\">www.hrc.org\/blog\/entry\/marriott-ceo-we-have-to-protect-our-right-to-welcome-everybody?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss-feed<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marriott CEO: \u201cWe Have to Protect Our Right to Welcome Everybody\u201d Marriott International CEO and President Arne Sorenson sat down with LinkedIn this week to discuss why it is vital for companies to speak out in support of issues like marriage equality. <a href=\"http:\/\/HRC.org\" class=\"autohyperlink\">HRC.org<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hrc.org\/blog\/entry\/marriott-ceo-we-have-to-protect-our-right-to-welcome-everybody?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss-feed\" class=\"autohyperlink\">www.hrc.org\/blog\/entry\/marriott-ceo-we-have-to-protect-our-right-to-welcome-everybody?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss-feed<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Marriott CEO: \u201cWe Have to Protect Our Right to Welcome Everybody\u201d - GAYFRIENDSCHAT.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/marriott-ceo-we-have-to-protect-our-right-to-welcome-everybody\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Marriott CEO: \u201cWe Have to Protect Our Right to Welcome Everybody\u201d - GAYFRIENDSCHAT.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Marriott CEO: \u201cWe Have to Protect Our Right to Welcome Everybody\u201d Marriott International CEO and President Arne Sorenson sat down with LinkedIn this week to discuss why it is vital for companies to speak out in support of issues like marriage equality. 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