P&G Company Sponsors Hometown Homosexuals' Activist Agenda
by Chad Groening
February 13, 2004
(AgapePress) - A pro-family organization is upset that a major U.S. corporation is financially supporting radical homosexual activists who are trying to repeal a Cincinnati city ordinance forbidding special rights for homosexuals.
The homosexual activists have found a major corporate sponsor to bankroll their lobbying efforts to get Article 12 of the Cincinnati city charter repealed this November. Article 12 forbids the city from granting special protections or ceding special rights and privileges to homosexuals.
Phil Burris, a leading member of the citizens' group Equal Rights Not Special Rights, says Procter and Gamble has already donated $10,000 to the homosexuals' cause. And Burris says his group is going to make sure that citizens nationwide are made aware that P&G is pushing for special rights for people simply because they call themselves homosexuals.
But Burris says the corporate giant's pro-homosexual leanings go beyond the effort in Cincinnati. "Many people have left Procter and Gamble because of the hateful, bigoted attitude that [the company] has toward people of faith. And if you do not endorse and accept homosexuality, they will drum you out of the company," Burris says.
But despite the corporation's bankrolling of the homosexual effort, the greater part of the local citizenry favor keeping Article 12 in place. The Equal Rights Not Special Rights spokesman says his group is stunned that the huge Cincinnati-based corporation would go against the majority of city residents who oppose the idea of giving special rights to homosexuals.
"That is absolutely shocking to us," Burris says, "that a major corporation like this would wade into something where the majority of people are opposed to this. So it looks like it's going to be framed as Procter and Gamble versus the people of Cincinnati."
Procter & Gamble began in 1837 as a small, family-owned soap and candle company that has grown to an international corporate juggernaut. The company describes its tradition as one rooted in "personal integrity, respect for the individual and doing what's right for the long-term."
