Homosexuals Angry at ConocoPhillips
A major oil company has removed "sexual orientation" from its nondiscrimination policy.
Homosexual activists are up in arms because another major oil company, ConocoPhillips, has pulled back from a policy that homosexuals covet.
Conoco included the words "sexual orientation" until it merged with Phillips Petroleum last year. The new company erased the language, according to Kelly Shackelford, head of the Plano, Texas-based Freedom Foundation. Conoco-Phillips is based in Houston.
"Just as a lot of conservatives and pro-family people complain when people go the wrong direction, ConocoPhillips needs to be congratulated and, in fact, more business done with them," Shackelford said.
The ConocoPhillips move follows a similar rollback by another huge oil company, ExxonMobil. According to the Rev. Duane Motley, these two actions by megacorporations are serious reversals for homosexual activist groups and their tactics.
"First of all, they get government to support their beliefs and their orientation, and then, when they get the governments, they go after the businesses and say, 'Look, government does it, why can't you do it?' " he said.
Motley, who is president and founder of New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms, saw these same tactics played out in New York in December, when the New York Legislature added "sexual orientation" to state discrimination laws, making homosexuality a favored status.
"What the homosexual agenda is, they want to have their people treated with extra rights and privileges that the ordinary citizens do not have," Motley said. "So what these companies are saying is, 'We're going to treat everyone equal.' "
ConocoPhillips has said it will now rely on federal laws, which outlaw discrimination against anyone.
TAKE ACTION
Contact ConocoPhillips and thank them for upholding traditional values by dropping the words "sexual orientation" from their nondiscrimination policy. You can submit comments on their Web site, or if you would like to write a letter or make a call:
Archie W. Dunham, chairman
ConocoPhillips
600 North Dairy Ashford
P.O. Box 2197
Houston, TX 77252-2197
Phone: 281-293-1000