Ford shareholders to reintroduce proposal against pro-homosexual policies

Ford shareholders to reintroduce proposal against pro-homosexual policies

An advocate for family values in corporate policy will return to Ford Motor Company's annual shareholders meeting next week seeking a vote on a resolution to remove "sexual orientation" from its company employment policies. Ohio pro-family activist Tom Strobhar also wants to discourage Ford's support of the homosexual agenda.

Strobhar read the proposed resolution from Ford shareholder Dr. Robert Hurley of St. Louis at last year's meeting. But only five percent of shareholders supported it. Strobhar says the resolution points out that Ford has been giving money to homosexual advocacy centers, cutting retirement benefits while paying domestic-partner benefits, and advertising in homosexual magazines, all while closing plants and laying off employees.

"That's beside the fact that the company had lost $50 billion in market value, a tremendous amount of the market share -- and even J.P. Morgan and Company said they had a 43 percent chance of bankruptcy," the activist notes.

Strobhar says he hopes to present "those things and more" at the upcoming meeting, where he and Hurley say Ford "can't duck it" and "they have to sit there and listen to what we say."

"It's time we challenge them, and this is one way to do it," he said.

Because the resolution received one percent of the vote last year, it can be considered again this year, at the May 10 meeting in Delaware. Strobhar hopes to be able to make the case against Ford's business direction even more strongly -- following four more quarters of losses, including $282 million last quarter, since the May 2006 shareholders meeting.