Thousands upon thousands of companies and organizations use these type network affiliate programs and have for years, if that is not big service that every-day people use, I don't know what is.
So if they attacked the "network" (sorry, I know nothing about such things, as I don't use them in my daily life), would it be OK for them to attack Wal-Mart then?
I think the attack on WalMart or one on the Network is just plain silly. However, I do find it hypocritical that they are only naming WalMart when the location for the link to WalMart provides links to dozens of other companies offering the same, often better, incentive to the organization, such as Avon, Disney, Amazon.com, Netflix, AT&T, Sharper Image, HallMark, FTD Florists. .
AFA would do far more for family values by suggesting a scale back of materialistic mentalities for Christmas instead of an idiotic 2 day boycott of one retailer. That is of course if they are truly seeking to bolster family values as opposed to continued commercialization of the Birth of Christ.
I don't need organizations such as AFA to tell me what my family values should be on Thanksgiving weekend (or any other time for that matter). In fact our family plans for Thanksgiving weekend promote family and traditional values far more than AFA's silly boycott against WalMart. We do no shopping that weekend, and will in fact be out in the woods gathering pine boughs, pine cones, and holly to make our own decorations.
I hope AFA and those in agreement enjoy their WalMart-free days, I'll think about them and even pray for them to get over their materialistic lives, while I enjoy much more fruitful time with my family and friends and God's great earth.
One final note.....AFA's press release is actually counter productive to their alleged goals - they are giving far more free publicity to these organizations than they would have ever received with out the nanny noses of AFA poking around. Great job.
What is the connection with "materialism" and AFA? I just don't get your point.
How else are people going to affect the "broader culture" except by withholding money? Should they attack with M-16s and bayonets instead? Or - God forbid - LEGISLATION?
AFA largely is against legislation. They work to change businesses to protect society by boycotting; they've never suggested even "pass a law" to get their way.
So frankly, I don't know what the complaint is about org's that try to change things in passive ways, neither by violence nor by communistic gov-force.
And believe me, these boycotts have worked. Southern Baptist Convention has also joined in boycotts and it's been very effective, at least as far as revenues for the companies in question.