Wells Fargo: Too Gay for the American Mullah

It's not just the world-class service, convenience, and value anymore. Now you should move all your money to San Francisco-based Wells Fargo because Wells Fargo is just too gay for the American mullah, James Dobson.

Focus on the Family Drops Wells Fargo

Bank’s support of the gay agenda among the reasons for the split.

Focus on the Family has fired its banker; Wells Fargo. The bank is among the largest corporate contributors to homosexual causes. Steve Kipp of Focus on the Family Action has researched the corporate giant.

“Wells Fargo has joined in with a select number of other companies in forming basically a gay and lesbian Chamber of Commerce, that’s actually the name of it.”

The aim is to give gay and lesbian companies more business, but they don’t stop there. They are also interested in gay youth.

Dobson is also interested in gay youth.

“They also have given money to Gay and Lesbian Youth Center; they’ve given money to Family Pride Coalition, which advocates adoption for same sex couples.”

In 2003 alone, Wells Fargo gave $2.1 million to more than 95 non-profit agencies serving the homosexual community. That brings their total giving since the 1980’s to more than $14 million. Dr. James Dobson of Focus on the Family.

“We have to do business with some companies because there are no alternatives. All you can do is refuse to do business with those who are most aggressive in terms of promoting that lifestyle.”

I want to restate the allegation here: Wells Fargo, with its 23 million customers and $450 billion in assets, is aggressively promoting homosexuality.

Focus on the Family is sympathetic to the homosexual community but opposes the radical agenda by activists. The ministry will be switching all its banking to First National Bank Omaha, described as a family-friendly institution. Wells Fargo declined to comment. Wells Fargo has won several awards for recognizing the GLBT community including scoring a perfect 100 on the Human Rights Campaign’s “Equality Index.”

I want to restate the allegation here: Wells Fargo, with its $93 million in charitable giving and its adoption and scholarship benefits for employees, is not family-friendly.

I can't wait to see how Dobson's new bank spins this. "Choose First National Bank of Omaha. Because Nothing Stains Your Money like Sodomites."

Comments

[Pablo Escobar]

Rock on WF. I have checking and savings at Wells. Does that make me bisexual? :-)

[j]

Yay for perfect equality index; boo for losing my friend's money through a computer error and then refusing to admit fault or give it back. Yay for being "a gay and lesbian chamber of commerce"; boo for trying to refuse to let me move my money to another bank because I was moving to an area where they didn't have branches or ATMs.

I'm a little torn here.

[seamus]

J, how did they "refuse to let you move your money to another bank"? Did they not let you close your account and withdraw it all?

[catherine]

Impressive. Although, I worked for them as a teller in college and they are greedy like the rest of 'em. Too bad I adore my credit union.

[j]

yes, they made it almost impossible for me to close my account (not a checking account) - i will note that i was in a distant city which didn't have a branch. however, this is a feat only equalled by credit lyonnais who to this day still have an account that my parents opened in the late 1970s.

but still, yay for their social goodness. i'm glad to hear that they are doing something good AND pissing off people who need to be pissed off on a much more regular basis.

[Mack Collier]

"All you can do is refuse to do business with those who are most aggressive in terms of promoting that lifestyle.”

I want to restate the allegation here: Wells Fargo, with its 23 million customers and $450 billion in assets, is aggressively promoting homosexuality."

Er....that's not really what Dobson said. He said 'most aggressive', not those that are 'aggressively promoting'.

Then you follow with this:

"I want to restate the allegation here: Wells Fargo, with its $93 million in charitable giving and its adoption and scholarship benefits for employees, is not family-friendly."

Dobson never said that Wells-Fargo is not family-friendly, that was your spin.

[seamus]

Mack, not my spin. From Dobson's press-release:

"The ministry will be switching all its banking to First National Bank Omaha, described as a family-friendly institution."

What does that imply about their former banker?

Dobson's calls his ministry "Focus on the Family" and rails against the "gay agenda." Then he drops Wells Fargo for a "family-friendly" bank.

What was my spin?