[Fight PFLAG - put $5 in the Red Kettle] 'Kettle Protest' Against Salvation Army Backfiring

CNSNews.com ^ | 11-28-01

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'Kettle Protest' Against Salvation Army Backfiring -- 11/28/2001 'Kettle Protest' Against Salvation Army Backfiring By Matt Pyeatt CNSNews.com Staff Writer November 28, 2001 (CNSNews.com) - The effort by a homosexual group to drop "phony $5 bills" into Salvation Army kettles this holiday season continues to backfire. Another pro-family group has pledged to redeem the phony bills with real cash. The American Family Association (AFA) of Michigan Monday announced it would donate up to $1,000 to redeem the fake five-dollar bills placed in Salvation Army kettles by members of the group, Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians & Gays (PFLAG). Tuesday, Citizens for Community Values (CCV), a Cincinnati organization, said it too would redeem the fake cash. "We are trying to encourage people with the truth and then encourage them to support the Salvation Army," David Miller, Vice President of CCV, said. "Then when we saw what [AFA-Michigan] was doing, we said, 'we can do the same thing right here and let's try to help and encourage Salvation Army in any way that we can.'" PFLAG has called for a nationwide "kettle protest" by its 470 affiliates. Mary Scholl, the organization's president, is the mother of a homosexual man, and says the protest is intended to let the Salvation Army know that its policies against homosexuality are "hurtful to our loved ones." "I do not believe that the love and sexual expression my son and his partner have for each other or any of my friends is any less natural and beautiful than my relationship with my husband," Scholl said. Miller believes the PFLAG protest is going to "backfire on them and they are going to realize that it wasn't the greatest idea to try to hurt the Salvation Army and punish them. "They are actually helping the Army by putting in these phony fives," Miller said. Miller said no limit would be set on how much money his group would donate to the Salvation Army. "We are going to work with what we think we can put in as well as what we think we can ask others to help us with," Miller said. The Salvation Army recently rescinded a decision that would have allowed domestic partner benefits for its Western Territory employees. As a result, Army employees are prohibited from including domestic partners, some of whom are homosexual, on their health care insurance plans. See Earlier Story: Homosexual Group Uses Fake Cash to Protest Salvation Army

[The Real Deal]

I put a real $5 in the last kettle that I passed. I guess I'll just have to put a $20 in the next one.

[WarHawk42]

No help from me for the Salvation army.  Not anymore.  I might give them a phoney five dollar bill with bush's picture on it.  They supported bush and his unconstitutional faith based charity scheme.

WarHawk42

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[reaganite]

The Salvation Army is the absolute best charity around. I'd trust them with my last buck. They have very low overhead and don't waste donor dollars on phoney baloney PC crap.

[UbIwerks]

I put a real $5 in the last kettle that I passed. I guess I'll just have to put a $20 in the next one.

When I see a Salvation Army kettle, I'll do the same thing.

A PFLAG person said that the relationship of her son with his lover is just as beautiful as the relationship of her with her husband. Somehow, I just can't imagine much beauty in smearing excrement on someone or giving mutual enemas with urine as the liquid.

Joke Infomercial on AIDs

[WarHawk42]

The Salvation Army is the absolute best charity around. I'd trust them with my last buck. They have very low overhead and don't waste donor dollars on phoney baloney PC crap.

I agree with all of that and have supported them for years, but no more, not when they came out and supported bush on the faith based scheme.  Their grab for federal (my tax dollars) eliminated them from consideration by me.  Let them go to bush, not me.

WarHawk42

[Umanbean]

I get even more enjoyment each time I add to the kettle since their recent turnabout.

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I love giving to a good cause bump.

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I love giving to a good cause bump.

[reaganite]

What's the "faith based scheme?" Is that the opposite of the atheistic scheme? I repeat, the Salvation Army is the very best charity around!

[VA Advogado]

ha ha ha this is going to piss off the flamers. They hate to be tochued' (in the traditional sense).

[Antoninus]

Just some more holiday cheer from our petulant little friends in the Culture of Death movement. If I can't have my way, watch out! I might throw a tantrum!

[UbIwerks]

Just some more holiday cheer from our petulant little friends in the Culture of Death movement. If I can't have my way, watch out! I might throw a tantrum!

Of course they're going to throw a temper tantrum like a little kid. What do you expect from a developmental disorder?

Narth

[WarHawk42]

What's the "faith based scheme?"

If you really don't know I don't have the time to go into it tonight.  It has been thoroughly discussed here on FR.

I repeat, the Salvation Army is the very best charity around!

Yes you are repeating yourself and I agreed with you the first time.  The Constitution is more important to me than any charity organization.  Their loss.

WarHawk42

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Thanks for the bump. I have usually tried to give a bit to the Salvation Army. I haven't seen too many kettles this year, but will have to go find a couple.

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[reaganite]

Well, Mr. Know-It-All, I don't consider it a "scheme," no matter how many times it has been discussed here. I'm not trying to pick a fight here. I just get my belly full of all you nattering nabobs.

[WarHawk42]

Well, Mr. Know-It-All, I don't consider it a "scheme," no matter how many times it has been discussed here. I'm not trying to pick a fight here. I just get my belly full of all you nattering nabobs.

LOL  It doesn't take you long to start name calling does it?:)

Call it anything you want it is still unconstitutional.  Would you have supported clinton had he tried it?  There will be other democrats in office, what would they do with that program?

Best to be careful what you ask for, you may get it.

WarHawk42