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ROYAL BANK FUNDS HOMOSEXUAL ORGANIZATIONS

The Royal Bank's deep involvement in the homosexual cause becomes even more apparent.

The Bank is now on record as funding nine different homosexual organizations and causes in Canada, including the notorious Toronto Gay Pride Parade with all its blatant nudity.

The website for the Royal Bank states:

When it comes to helping meet the needs of our friends and family members in the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered community, though we prefer to let our actions speak for us, we can point to a history of sponsoring and donating to such organizations and causes as …

Buddies in Bad Times Theatre (Toronto)
Central Toronto Youth Services (Toronto)
Gay Life & Style Show (Toronto)
Lesbian Gay Bi Youth Line
New Directions (Toronto)
Positive Women's Network (Vancouver)
Toronto Area Gays & Lesbians Photo Line and Crisis
Counseling
The Toronto [Gay] Pride Day Parade
Vancouver [Gay] Pride Society

The reason behind those sponsorships and donations to homosexual causes and organizations is also made clear in the Bank's website on "Sponsorship Opportunities" which states:

We're looking for creative entities that present us with a landscape filled with marketing potential, banking opportunities, media extensions, image fit, community relations activities and client development opportunities.

In other words, the Royal Bank is cashing in on the fact that homosexuals, far from experiencing discrimination, are both highly educated and affluent 1 and, therefore, are a lucrative target group for the Royal Bank.

That is, the Royal Bank has apparently decided that homosexuals are a more desirable community to target and serve than the many decent, family-orientated customers who are not sympathetic to the homosexual cause. To show its favoured groups its concerns for their cause, the Bank has deliberately refused its services to those whose policies include opposition to the homosexual agenda, such as the No Committees of Quebec and Ontario. (See Reality, March/April 2002, p. 1, "Royal Bank Officially Confirms Its Policy Of Discrimination".)

Royal Bank Will Not Apply Pro-homosexual Policies in US

The Royal Bank is now planning to extend its already huge holdings in the US by spending between $3 billion to $5 billion during the next one or two years on further US acquisitions because it claims there are "few opportunities for growth in Canada," (Financial Post, Oct. 3, 2002).

The Royal Bank, however, according to an article published in the Washington Times on September 23, 2002, which outlined the Royal Bank's discriminatory policies toward pro-family groups, was quoted as stating that it does not intend to impose its pro-homosexual policies in the US, even though, in a letter dated January 18, 2002, addressed to the Ontario No Committee, such a policy was in accordance with the Bank's "standard of conduct and values."

One can only assume that it dare not do so, notwithstanding the active homosexual community in the US, because, population-wise, there are so many more Christians in the US (three million Southern Baptist alone) who are prepared to act on their principles. Not that committed Christians fail to act in Canada, but there is a much smaller population here. This, coupled with the fact that Canadians, in general, seem to be less politically active than Americans, has enabled the Royal Bank to continue to cater to its target group, the homosexual community. This also means that anyone who continues to bank with the Royal Bank, is also, unwittingly or not, contributing to the homosexual cause.

1 1988 Simmons relationship study: Chicago-based research company "Overlooked Opinions" based on a survey of 25,000 consumers in US and Canada.

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