*//*>>> Subject:

       >>> Re: Nokia and Siemens and Iran
       >>> From:
       >>> "Rev. Stewart Marshall" <[email protected]>
       >>> Date:
       >>> Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:48:00 -0500
       >>>
       >>>
       >>> This had more to do with South Africa and it was trying to make a
       >>> social statement more than anything else.  Morality had a small play
       >>> into it.
       >>>
       >>> Can you safely say that every business you deal with and every
       >>> investment you make is a good moral decision and the correct one at
       >>> that?
       >>>
       >>> Here you had a case of a group of Clergy telling their investment
       >>> advisor we do not want you to invest in these companies because we do
       >>> not agree with their investments in South Africa.
       >>>
       >>> I know that I am limited in my understanding of investment vehicles.
       >>> But I do know that many companies are invested very diversely and
       >>> they may do business with a number of folks I would not be happy 
with.
       >>>
       >>> It is similar to the Catholic Church where a Dioceses had someone
       >>> managing their investments and when some one did a careful scrutiny
       >>> of them they found out they owned an adult movie theatre.
       >>>
       >>> Stewart
       >>>
       >>>
       >> And it probably made them the most money in our current society!
       >>
       >
       > Bill

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