Support for homosexual agenda remaining 'Ford tough'

Support for homosexual agenda remaining 'Ford tough'

Ford Motor Company has signed on as a major sponsor of the 2007 national convention for Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG). Family advocates -- among them a group boycotting the automaker and an individual soon to speak at Ford's annual shareholders meeting -- say it is just one of many moves by Ford in its ongoing support of homosexual activism.

American Family Association, which continues its year-old boycott of Ford, reports that at least $10,000 will go from the automaker toward support of the 2007 national convention for PFLAG -- a group whose website states it is committed to changing federal and state laws to allow people "in same-gender committed relationships the right to marry with the full legal rights and benefits."

In addition to the PFLAG contribution, an undisclosed amount of money from Ford will underwrite a main sponsorship of the London Gay Pride Festival -- and the automaker's board of directors is unanimously urging shareholders to vote against a proposal to remove sexual orientation from its corporate policies.

That policy-revision proposal will be presented on Thursday by Ohio pro-family activist Tom Strobhar at Ford's annual meeting in Delaware. The activist explains the rationale behind his push to change company policies.

"Ford is paying domestic-partner benefits while cutting retirement benefits," Strobhar explains. "They're closing plants while building gay and lesbian centers. They're giving shareholder money, which is the fruit of all the employees' labor, to the largest homosexual organization in the country." And organizations receiving money from the automaker, he claims, "use it to aggressively promote same-sex marriage."

Strobhar says the company also continues to advertise in magazines whose primary focus is the homosexual lifestyle. All these factors, says Stobhar, combine to make Ford one of the worst examples of a company whose policies have been taken over by groups whose primary interest is promoting homosexuality.

"I've done 50 or 60 shareholder resolutions, primarily on pro-life issues," the family advocate says, "but increasingly I've tried to address the fact that corporations are really trying to change the culture by offering domestic-partner benefits and giving money to gay and lesbian groups."

He laments that cultural activism by corporate entities "really was unheard of 10 and 15 years ago" but "now is a very common fact."