Shareholder's Proposal Urges Ford to Stop Pushing Homosexual 'Marriage'
by Allie Martin
April 18, 2006
(AgapePress) - - The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has refused a request by the Ford Motor Company to keep a homosexual issue off their stockholders' meeting agenda -- a resolution designed to bar the auto manufacturer from promoting same-sex "marriage."
Late last year, a retired doctor from Alton, Illinois, named Robert Hurley penned a letter to Ford Motor Company's corporate secretary. In the letter Hurley informed company officials that he, as a Ford stockholder, intended to introduce a resolution at the annual shareholders' meeting that would forbid the automotive industry giant to promote homosexual marriage.
Ford, fearing homosexuals might boycott the company, asked the SEC to omit the resolution. However, the government agency denied the request. Therefore, the author of the resolution asserts, Ford officials will now be forced to deal with the issue.
"I think the more it can be discussed in the company and outside, the better because I think it's a significant issue," Hurley contends. "And it isn't just with Ford," he notes. "There are others who have similar written policies which really need to be streamlined and made non-preferential to any group's activities."
Ford's 2006 Annual Stockholder Meeting takes place May 11 in Wilmington, Delaware. Members of the company's Board of Directors are recommending a vote against the proposal, Hurley notes, "because they believe they need a diverse workforce, free of discrimination."
But the hiring of homosexuals as members of the Ford workforce is not the issue, the concerned stockholder insists. The real issue, he suggests, is the company's overtly pro-homosexual policy and its efforts to advance the cause of same-sex marriage.
"I'm talking about a written policy that singles out specific activities for specific mention and listing; I just don't think that's appropriate," Hurley says. "And I think it makes the company look as though, in this case, they may be promoting activities that have significant public health consequences."
The American Family Association has, along with a coalition of other pro-family groups, called for a year-long boycott of Ford because of its support for homosexual marriage. Hurley hopes his resolution at next month's shareholder meeting will further encourage the auto company to stop promoting same-sex marriage and other homosexual activist causes.
Allie Martin, a regular contributor to AgapePress, is a reporter for American Family Radio News, which can be heard online.
