Ford Motor company has long been a leader in promoting equal rights for all their workers including gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered people. They have explicit anti-discrimination policies that include GLBT employees. They provide domestic partner benefits to all employees regardless of gender. For some time christian fascists (no I will no longer refer to them as conservatives, because they do not qualify as conservatives) have been trying to get Ford to stop treating people equally and also to stop advertising in gay publications and sponsoring gay events. Ford is a public company and as such they have a responsibility to sell their products to whoever they can and also to get the best employees. It makes no difference to Ford who those people have relationships with. Christian Fascists have no right to be telling anyone else how to live.

Well one Ford shareholder went to the SEC to get a vote on stripping these equality provisions at the Ford annual meeting. Fortunately most Ford shareholders didn’t agree and voted 95% to reject the proposal and to maintain the anti-discrimination protections as they are. Good for Ford Motor Company and almost all their shareholders.