CHRISTIANS PLANS ANTI-GAY MICROSOFT SHAREHOLDER REVOLT
Fundamentalist Christians in the US are planning to force Microsoft to change its pro-gay policies through a shareholder revolt.
AGN Financial, a corporation set up by Christian leaders, is headed up by Rev. Ken Hutcherson (left), a pastor who has long promoted homophobia through so-called “family values”
The group’s “Buy Three, Donate One” campaign which launched this week is described in a statement as “a global effort to put moral accountability back into corporations.” The scheme asks investors to buy three Microsoft shares and donate one to AGN.
AGN hopes to in this way build up enough shares in Microsoft to have a voice at the company’s annual general meetings and thus be able to force the company to change its policies.
“We are not trying to hurt Microsoft or their shareholders nor are we calling for a boycott of their products or services. We are trying to help them,” said Hutcherson in a statement.
AGN said that it believes that Microsoft Shareholders would be better served if Microsoft re-examined its “giving policies and explored more worthy causes that are designed to help people in real need.”
Microsoft has previously supported certain pro-gay legislation and is a strong proponent of ensuring benefits for LGBT employees and their families.
“The AGN website will keep people apprised of the progress and news of this campaign of Biblical proportions. All existing and potential Microsoft shareholders can visit the site prior to regular voting windows to see what AGN recommendations are backed by Biblical scriptures… This is an opportunity for Microsoft to focus on their products and shareholders and their core business rather than trying to destroy Judaea-Christian values,” said the statement.
Anti-gay religious fundamentalists. It’s such a pity that anti-gay religious fundamentalists of all faiths put so much energy in fighting anything gay, yet do so little to fight the issues that really challenge their faith – poverty, crime, hate-speech, infidelity etc, etc
Astonishing. I find it disturbing that these people define their lives and goals by needing to oppose things that actually don’t affect their lives in any way. How dare they attempt to impose their self-righteous moral views on others… Make me so fucking angry!
fight back. Perhaps the gay community all over the world should also start buying 3 shares, but donate it to the GLBT people instead. hehehe
It would be good to see an organization like AGN’s plans backfire on them.
Oh please!!!. These things shold not even be discuised as people like Pastor hutchinson should rather start looking at his own life and the lives of other so called christian leaders who are married and sleeps around with ladies of the night and men, who always trells you this and that is wrong but they doing it themsevle so what is the issue:
the main issue is that gay or straiht must make there own time with the Lord. Rev Hutchinson is n not going to stand at the Heavenly GAtes one day and say but I told you so no that will be between myself and the Lord.
Christian leader should rather go back like the old days and start looking after the people and stop fighting politics. The place as leaders in the Christian community is a calling but it change to a calling of politian. So my answer to all these so called christian leaders is go back to basic and strat doing your job get out of politic and start do you calling and look after the people and STOP TRYING TO BE THE HERO’S OF THE NEW CENTURY.
PLEASE JUST GET A LIFE hunger, crime, all these things and the rest oing with that is your calling get back to basic
Phish!. The world has suffered for 2000 years under the yoke of so called christians. All I can say is that the Lord we have Desomd Tutu, a real rolemoral, if only more christians saw things as clearly as he does.