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Timothy Plan Softens Screening Criterion on Homosexuality 12/11/2002 Just as two major corporations — Lockheed Martin and Cracker Barrel — changed their policies to affirm homosexuality, the Timothy Plan, the nation's largest group of pro-family mutual funds, was softening its investment screening criterion on homosexuality.
"Nondiscrimination policies that include homosexuals by themselves do not qualify a company to be screened out of our fund," Timothy Plan President Art Ally told C&F Report.
"However, when a company begins to offer health benefits to homosexual partners, that sets off red flags for us," he added. "That news starts us to digging, looking for other signs of blatant promotion of homosexuality like mandatory sensitivity training for employees or the sponsorship of homosexual groups and activities."
"The problem here is that as day follows night, the adoption of 'sexual orientation' policies leads directly to new demands by homosexual activists to adopt further 'reforms,'" said Robert Knight, director of the Culture and Family Institute. "The adoption of 'sexual orientation' is the beginning, not the end, of homosexual activism in the workplace."
For more information, see Culture and Family Institute's Special Report, "Sexual Orientation and American Culture."
The Timothy Plan family of mutual funds screens out companies that "promote homosexuality." Until recently, those screens prevented investment in companies that included "sexual orientation" in their nondiscrimination policies.
Timothy Plan's Web site states the following:
The Timothy Plan® avoids investing in companies that are involved in practices contrary to Judeo-Christian principles. Our goal is to recapture traditional American values. We are America's first pro-life, pro-family, biblically-based mutual fund group. (Emphasis theirs.)
Under its "principles & objectives" section, Timothy Plan lists:
Non-traditional married lifestyles.
"We still encourage individuals and investors to contact the leaders of such corporations to express their concerns over adaptation of homosexual-friendly nondiscrimination policies," Ally said. |
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