FedEx, Other Gay-Friendly Companies Partner With Anti-Gay Leader On Energy Lobbying
Posted in: Today's ChiliWASHINGTON — FedEx and other corporations with gay-friendly policies have partnered with an anti-gay evangelical organization as part of a lobbying effort around energy policy, according to tax documents.
FedEx President and CEO Fred Smith is a leader of the Securing America’s Future Energy (SAFE) Foundation, which works to advance energy policy that favors electric vehicles and increased domestic energy production. Since 2010, the group, which National Journal has called a “major player,” has been working with the conservative evangelical organization American Values, founded by former Family Research Council head Gary Bauer, a leading anti-marriage equality activist.
Tax documents show that in 2011, the most recent for which documents are available, American Values was SAFE’s only grant recipient, getting $60,000. SAFE paid Bauer’s group $55,000 the prior year, when American Values was one of two grant recipients (the other was the Electrification Coalition).
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