DBS

This season at selected outlets, DBS will donate a portion of your shopping monies to a Christian hate group.

For every set of limited edition bears redeemed, DBS will contribute a sum towards Focus on the Family, a charity dedicated to helping children and families thrive.

This fundamentalist group is dedicated to the protection of "traditional values" against moral decay, such as abortion, contraceptives, single parent families, homosexuals and pre-marital sex.

This is my response:

To: Senior VP Corporate Communications, DBS
CC: CEO, DBS Group

Dear Madam,

I refer to the promotion organised by DBS Cards in conjunction with Focus on the Family (FOTF).

I write to express my disappointment with this ill-considered decision by your bank to sponsor this controversial organisation. As the local branch of the radical right-wing organisation, FotF is a Christian organisation dedicated to exerting political pressure, in the objectives stated in their Stewardship Report 2007, "to impact on policy makers to protect the institution of family". Their questionable faith based activities organised by the group such as sexual health sessions and abstinence groups advocates values that has no place in our diverse multi-cultural Singaporean society.

As a long standing DBS customer who is also an atheist, I cannot accept the bigotted values espoused by this Christian evangelical organization. As such, could you advise if it is possible to opt out of this promotion or allow the money credited from my spending in participating outlets to other more deserving charities such as the Straits Times School Pocket Money Fund or the National Kidney Foundation.

Yours faithfully,

XXXX

And no I don't intend to redeem any of those teddy bears for my dog.