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Hit and Run: Big Three Auto Makers Attack Marriage, Promote Homosexuality, FRC Says

9 June 2000

Stockholders Urged to Overturn Anti-Family Policy

              
    WASHINGTON - In response to the "Big Three" automakers' announcement 
yesterday that they will award domestic partner benefits to same-sex couples, 
Family Research Council's Senior Director of Cultural Studies Robert H. Knight 
made the following statement:

    "By offering marital health benefits to homosexual couples, General
Motors, Ford and DaimlerChrysler have joined the corporate cultural wrecking
crew that seeks to destroy traditional morality.  This is a hit-and-run attack
on marriage and the natural family, regardless of the corporations' stated
motives.

    "Ford acknowledges that less than one percent of its workforce will sign
up for the homosexual program, so they are justifying this immoral policy by
saying it won't cost them much.  But the moral cost is enormous. The Big Three
are telling young people that homosexual behavior is normal, healthy and on a
par with marriage.

    "Given that a huge body of scientific and medical evidence shows that
homosexuality is destructive to individuals, families and communities, the
auto makers are steering away from compassion and washing their hands of the
lethal effects just to please a tiny, vocal group of activists.

    "The Big Three's plunge into homosexual activism is exceeded only by
Subaru, which for several years has openly funded and promoted homosexual
activists, including groups such as GLAAD, which characterize Christian
conservatives as 'religious political extremists,' and is trying to silence
talk-show host Dr. Laura Schlessinger.

    "Just as Exxon-Mobil reassessed the impact of same-sex-partner benefits
and reinforced the marriage standard, the Big Three should count the costs and
back away from this disastrous policy change. We urge company stockholders to
work to overturn the policy."