(AgapePress) - A Salvation Army official in Michigan says the U.S. Secret Service is investigating a phony money attack by homosexual activists.

Last month, homosexual activists encouraged their supporters to drop fake five-dollar bills into the Salvation Army kettles outside stores throughout Michigan. The campaign is in response to a Salvation Army policy against giving health insurance benefits to the "domestic partners" of homosexual employees.

Now Major Ralph Bukiewicz, commander of The Salvation Army's Flint, Michigan, office, says the Secret Service is investigating.

"We've been receiving a variety of variations on that theme -- anything from handwritten notes from people who may either agree with us or feel that we do discriminate, to modifications with very simple-type clip-art designs -- that really look nothing like a regular five-dollar bill," Bukiewicz says. "So since I've ... talked with the Secret Service, we've not been receiving anything that is actually been a [photocopy] that has been modified from the actual five-dollar bill."

The American Family Association of Michigan has given The Salvation Army in the state $800 to redeem the phony five-dollar bills placed in the kettles so far by homosexual activists. Other pro-family organizations such as the Culture and Family Institute and its parent organization, Concerned Women for America, are coming to the aid of The Salvation Army during this action by pro-homosexual forces.

Peter LaBarbera of the Culture and Family Institute says his organization supports the biblical stance taken by The Army. "The Salvation Army did the right thing by sticking to the Bible and not endorsing domestic partners, like it originally had," he says. "So we're trying to support them the best we can [through] special donations to The Salvation Army."

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