Posted on 11/14/2006 1:36:14 PM PST by Racehorse
Conservative Christian organizations in the United States are contacting supporters to urge a boycott of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. after U.S. Thanksgiving weekend, because the company is paying a commission to a small gay organization for sending buyers its way.
Each purchase made by clicking through the gay group's website to Wal-Mart's retail site generates a payment worth 5 per cent of the sale.
Donald Wildmon, chair of the American Family Association, said Friday his group has sent emails to 3 million supporters urging a boycott because the deal suggests Wal-Mart executives believe "the homosexual agenda is worthy of their support."
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. . . since August, conservative groups have been hammering Wal-Mart for agreeing to enter into a partnership with the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce. The company said it forges business partnerships with many minority organizations to help it attract a diverse array of suppliers.
(Excerpt) Read more at thestar.com ...
The more the merrier!!!!
Thanks, again.
I have my own personal "boycotts" but I do agree with you that it has crossed over into the absurd. There are far more important things going on in this world that threaten me and my family than what groups sign up for what company's affiliate program.
Thanks for the info on Will and Grace. I honestly don't remember the last time I actually watch a sitcom, unless it was a repeat of something like I Love Lucy at 3am :) I haven't had the TV on since my husband finished watching a football game on Sunday, if that gives you any idea of how much TV I watch.
Very good question. I don't know the answer.
Don't want to miss out on those Black Friday sales!
I have to seriously question the sanity of anyone who shops anywhere on Black Friday.
It's all in the FR archives somewhere.
You are correct. Fighting the Blue Hairs is no fun!
My wife and I built a new house this year and I built a home theater and needed a new display. I picked one out and then my wife said to me, "wait till black friday and you can get a bigger one!"
So I was going to. Then I decided I didn't want to deal with the hassle and the likelyhood of massive savings on the display I wanted were pretty slim. Maybe a couple hundred bucks. So I just went and bought it.
We are going to have to agree to disagree here. If it weren't for all these radical anti-gay groups attacking WalMart, for the same things hundreds of other companies also do, I would never have even known about it.
As far as I am concerned it is not WM that is doing the "in your face" thing here........and the groups, such as AFA, making such a big deal of it are defeating their own purpose. They are giving far more publicity to these gay groups, than the gay groups themselves could dream of, because it sure isn't WM giving them the publicity.
I realize your comments are not personally directed, however there are enough other sentiments around here that I do believe put it on a personal level.........especially to people that work for some of the companies that come under attack.
Personally WalMart has done more for my family than AFA has or ever will do, and in fact AFA does more harm to my family with their attacks on WalMart than WM could ever do to my family. AFA seeks to harm WM because they disagree with some of the company policies, so be it, they are perfectly within their right to do so. Just as I am perfectly within my right to seek to harm AFA as payback for the harm they are trying to inflict on my family........yup, it's personal with me, but unlike AFA, I'm not vindictive and I will not go out of my way to do them harm. But when their assinine crapola gets put in front of me, I will call it for what I see it.
Smart man. I don't even want to go to the grocery store on Black Friday - too much traffic on the roads.
I'm one of those weird women that actually don't like to shop, but it is a necessary chore so I try to do it at the least trying times. 9am on a weekday morning is as good a time as any for me :) I have to go shopping in the morning (I'm out of dog and cat food and I don't need a mutiny with 10 hngry animals) and I am NOT looking forward to it, but with any luck I will be home by 9am, 9:15 at the latest.
Your point is well taken. I enjoy the people at my local Wal-Mart and I know and call them by name. I don't see any 'bad' things they do. And, I don't find fault with the products, which I buy there lots, and the few times I do make returns it's usually that I got the wrong size or made a whimsy buy that turned out stupid.
I don't dislike them. I'm just sorry they didn't stick to their 'American' theme. But, that's what happens when the patriarch passes. Kin get greedy.
AFA is more valuable to me than Wal-Mart. So we are on different sides. Life goes on.
There are no corporations that are "pro-family." There are ads that are pro-family, public relations campaigns that are pro-family and even promotions that are pro-family. But corporations themselves are neutral when it comes to families.
But of course!!!!
But not for very much longer........I need to go put the stuff I've been cooking all day into the freezer. Here it is a week before Thanksgiving and I'm about to put the majority of Christmas dinner in the freezer :)
Tomorrow I will be dong bread and crocheting, Thursday cookies and crocheting, and Friday hubby will be home from a week out of town and so I will sleep.
Saturday I have to go to WalMart!
I don't think I can be more honest than I have been. I am not offended by the affiliate program (which is what I assume you mean by "this"), however, I am offended by AFA's attack on WalMart over it, when if it is such a problem to them, they didn't attack any of the other dozens of companies that are also listed on the gay group's site whose affiliate programs they are also participants. Avon, Ftd, Old Navy.....the list goes on - but AFA singled out one company for attack. That is offensive to me.
AFA is attempting to hurt a company at it's bottom line, if AFA succeeds that company will have to raise it's prices, thus AFA hurts my wallet and thus is doing far more harm than good to me. If prices rise because of AFA and my husband's salary doesn't go up accordingly, I will have to get an additional job outside the home.........so much for AFA's family values.
Just breaking - now the leftists are demonstrating too -
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1738747/posts
No one is forcing me to buy Chinese goods. Ok?
That's the problem with making assumptions... You can assume Company A is worse than Company B, and that company B only does what every other company does, when in fact the roles may be reversed....
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