Word: interfaith
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Smith, executive director of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, a group similar to the National Council of Churches but aimed directly at investment policy says institutional churches will emerge as a cohesive power, questioning the future of nuclear energy in America...
...simpler, and shareholders didn't raise such a fuss about the way management was running things, there were much fewer resolutions to worry about. Before the early '70s, most resolutions were on technical decisions that management wanted the shareholders as a whole to ratify. Then church groupshlike the activist Interfaith Center for Corporate Responsibility realized that initiating resolutions was a good way to put public pressure on corporations...
...Glenn Igleheart, the "interfaith witness" director of the nation's largest Protestant group, the Southern Baptist Convention, warns against "overreaction" by parents of cult members or by the government. He urges fellow Christians to support "free religious expression" at the same time that they carefully scrutinize new faiths and "speak out against deviant beliefs and abuses against persons." Every new group should be examined carefully, he advises, and measured by such beliefs and practices as "the unquestioned lordship of Jesus Christ, the unimpeded right of each believer to communicate with God and use of the Bible as the norm...
...would undermine the Vorster regime. Says Franklin H. Williams, a black activist who was U.S. ambassador to Ghana in the late 1960s: "What American companies have done so far has been essentially cosmetic. The basic inhumanity of life for blacks in South Africa continues unabated." The New York-based Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, a coalition of several Roman Catholic orders and Protestant denominations, urges a U.S. withdrawal unless, as Director Timothy Smith puts it, the government "takes steps to give full political, economic and social rights to the black majority...
This type of marketing raises the issue of corporate responsibility. Does the company's responsibility end with the sale of a product, or extend through its use or even the effects of its use? The Interfaith Coalition for Corporate Responsibility (ICCR), a coalition of church groups affiliated with the World Council of Churches, has been raising the moral issues surrounding promotion of infant formulas to the poor and uneducated in corporate boardrooms for several years now. With the backing of the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the U.N. among others, the ICCR has introduced shareholder resolutions to such corporations...