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6/8 Dear Motd Mormons and Christians, have you stopped boycotting
Disney? Disneyland, Disney World, and Disney products in general?
Why and why not?
\_ Have you stopped beating your wife? -emarkp
[For those who don't understand, I'll put it plainer: "what
boycott"?]
\_ Are you going to cry? Please don't report out hate speech!
\_ I don't think Mormons ever got the edict to boycott from AFA
because most Xtians do not consider Mormons as real Xtians.
\_ there are some groups that boycott disney for being
in their eyes gay friendly, i don't think they post to the motd.
\_ This was the Southern Baptist Convention, IIRC. I'd wager
we have at least one person from a church in the SBC on soda.
I don't recall the SBC trying to make common cause with
the CoJCoLDS. -- ulysses
\_ Disney offers employee benefits for gays and lesbians and
AFA gets pissed and asks all Christians to boycott Disney:
http://tinyurl.com/cxaew (cnn.com)
A Christian group boycotts Ford and Disney:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,158232,00.html
Maybe they should boycott Microsoft as well because M$ offers
equal benefits to domestic partners.
\_ They should boycott the Internet because many of the
founders were gays or lesbians or at least gay or
lesbian tolerant. Then they should boycott electricity
because Edison never spoke out against gay people. Next
they should boycott modern plumbing because Mr. Crapper
was a pervert. Also, they should boycott using the
English langauge because it can be used to convey
impure thoughts.
\_ They should boycott food because food sustains
gays and lesbians.
\_ Not to mention oxygen and water.
\_ Edison invented electricity? I thought it was Franklin.
\_ Someone invented electricity?
\_ Edison invented electricity? |
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| tinyurl.com/cxaew -> money.cnn.com/2005/05/24/news/fortune500/disney_boycott.reut/ Mississippi-based American Family Association said it ended its campaign to stop Disney from "promoting homosexuality" to focus on "new challenge s in the culture wars" such as the appointment of federal judges and sam e-sex marriage laws. The group called off the campaign without achieving any of the changes in corporate behavior it sought, including a call for Disney to ban "Gay D ay" revelers from its theme parks and set up an advisory panel of evange lical Christians. Disney officials had no comment on the end of the boycott. AFA had been joined in the 1996 boycott by the Southern Baptist Conferenc e, Focus on the Family and other conservative Christian groups, but was alone in dropping the action. Sanders Morris Harris analyst David Miller said he doubted the prolonged action had any impact on Disney's profitability. "Anytime you have a hig hly visible, high-profile company you're going to have someone who doesn 't like what you're doing," he said. company's split with Miramax studio chiefs Bo b and Harvey Weinstein as driving factors behind the lifting of the boyc ott. "Eisner has been the main part of the problem -- he would not even sit do wn with us," Wildmon said. "They got involved with Miramax which was mak ing a lot of trash films." Wildmon said AFA also was persuaded that Disney had changed its ways by i ts decision to release a film adaptation of the CS Lewis book "The Lio n, the Witch and the Wardrobe," which they say contains Christian themes . "We know there are a lot of evangelicals who are going to want to go and see that, and they appreciate that Disney is producing that kind of movi e," Wildmon said. |
| www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,158232,00.html F) Tuesday, saying the second-largest US automaker has g iven thousands of dollars to gay rights groups, offers benefits to same- sex couples and actively recruits gay employees. "From redefining family to include homosexual marriage, to giving hundred s of thousands of dollars to support homosexual groups and their agenda, to forcing managers to attend diversity training on how to promote the acceptance of homosexuality... Ford responded that it respects its customers and employees. "Ford values all people, regardless of their race, religion, gender, sexu al orientation and cultural or physical differences," Ford vice presiden t of human resources Joe Laymon said. AFA special projects director Randy Sh arp said nearly 55,000 people had signed a pledge supporting the boycott by Tuesday afternoon. Ford was the only automaker among the 56 companies that got the highest r ating last year from the Human Rights Campaign, a gay rights group. Comp anies are rated on several factors, including whether they offer benefit s to gay partners, donate to gay rights groups and market their products to gays. "Ford is willing to do something they have refused to do for any other gr oup," Sharp said. A much smaller percentage went to community organizat ions for gays, Hispanics, blacks, Asians and other groups. The AFA recently ended a nine-year boycott of The Walt Disney Co. over Di sney's decision to extend benefits to same-sex couples and promote gay-r elated events at its theme parks. The boycott appeared to have little ef fect, since Disney reported higher earnings and increased theme park att endance during that time. |
| cnn.com -> www.cnn.com/ About 250 prisoners freed from Abu Ghraib The United States today freed about 250 detainees from Abu Ghraib prison, site of alleged abuses that prompted global outrage and led to days of hearings on Capitol Hill. Today marks the first mass prisoner release since the abuse scandal broke several weeks ago. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld had visited the prison Thursday. |