the religiously insane's brokers

[donsu]

http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=12527


Religious Right Discovers Investment Activism


Animated insects crawl across the webpage of the Timothy Plan, a group of conservative Christian investment funds that screen investments using Bible-based standards of political correctness. The bugs top the “hall of shame” -- a list of "cultural polluters" that The Plan deems the worst firms, the ones omitted from its mutual funds to protect investors from these "pesky nuisances."

Wyeth is boycotted for manufacturing birth control pills, Merck & Company for fetal tissue research, Procter & Gamble for donating to Planned Parenthood, Amazon.com for officially recognizing gay and lesbian groups. Walt Disney and Earthlink fail to make the Christian cut.


The Timothy Fund screens out 400-500 similar companies for investment because they undermine “family values” by having some connection to pornography, abortion or contraception, “non-marriage” lifestyles, alcohol, gambling, tobacco, and “vulgar” entertainment.

“Our screens are Biblically based,” Terry Covert, general counsel of the Timothy Plan, told CorpWatch. “People can use whatever screens they want. Ours are based on the Scriptures. These are God's words,” said Covert.
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very long article - stuff that will surely surprise you

[patrice]

1. Mammon's demons.

[indepat]

2. Man's perverted take on God's word?

[Ian David]

3. Just so long as the investors also boycott the vaccines and antibiotics

that all those pharmaceutical companies make.

All three of the major vaccine manufacturers offer same-sex partner benefits.

[Ian David]

4. I really like this part....

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For example Wal-Mart became a subject of its ire in 2002, although not necessarily for the anti-union activities that progressives might oppose: Ally was appalled to find displays of Cosmopolitan and Glamour, which he said are the “most blatantly aggressive soft core pornographic magazines in America” and create “a moral slippery slope … the initiation to hard core pornography, child molestation, bestiality and worse.” An August 2002 press release was titled "Timothy Plan Mutual Fund Group Denounces Wal-Mart for "Promotion of Pornography.'"