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[davidosborne]

From: B. Lee Pemberton
To: Dr Pepper/7-UP Pres. Doug Tough
Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 11:59 AM
Subject: Dr Pepper/7-UP's offensive commercials, and corruption of the Pledge of Allegiance

Dr Pepper/7-Up Inc.
5301 Legacy Drive
Plano, Tx 75024-3109
1.800-696-5891
e-mail: Consumer_relations@dpsu.com
Mr Doug Tough President

Mr Tough;
I recently observed a 7-UP commercial that I found to be both vulgar, obscene and offensive to Christians and other people of any moral persuasion: an actor is walking down a street, removing his clothes until finally he is wearing nothing but his undershorts. He removes the shorts and a crowd around him is depicted staring at him.

I have a question: is business so bad at Dr Pepper/7-UP that you must resort to filth peddling in order to make a buck? What on Earth is the connection between a fine product like 7-UP, and a pervert who takes off his clothes on a public street, and why would such a lascivious display make anyone want to run out and buy your products? Are you now touting 7-UP as the refreshment of choice for flashers and other sexual deviants who expose themselves to an unwilling audience?

And why was the phrase "under God" left out of the Pledge of Allegiance, on the new Dr Pepper can? What anti-God, anti-American heathen among your employees decided that Dr Pepper/7-UP had the right to re-write this patriotic anthem to exclude reference to the God Who caused America to become the greatest nation ever to grace the face of the Earth?

Do you honestly believe there are enough "politically-correct" Socialists and Marxists in America to keep your Company floating -after all the Christians, and other people with some measure of moral standards, stop purchasing your God-less, deviant products? You had better hope so!

Personally, I can assure you that none of your products will pollute my home or office for at least six months after you remove your prurient advertising and un-God-ly Pledge of Allegiance cans from the public view, and I will ask everyone I can contact to do likewise.

Most sincerely,
B. Lee Pemberton
Pastor

Church of the Lion of Judah
Post Office Box 1484
Sarasota, Fl 34230-1484
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[E Rocc]

1) The original Pledge of Allegiance did not have the "Under God" phrasing. That was added in the mid 1950s. Personally I prefer the original Pledge and I think that the wording flows better.

2) Dr. Pepper cans have the words "One Nation...Indivisible" on them. They have no other words from the Pledge on them. People have whined about why other parts of the pledge couldn't have been removed instead of Under God because they're too lazy to do any real research and just assume that the Pledge is printed in its entirety except for the "Under God" phrase. That is not the case -- the cans have a very small excerpt from the Pledge and nothing more.

Probably 90% of the time I've heard the Pledge spoken in the last 30 years or so it has been the pre-1954 version. It's just in more common usage because most people separate their religious faith and their patriotism to some degree.

What's really stupid about this whole molehill-turned-mountain is that Dr Pepper is being assailed for promoting patriotism. Clearly, Donald Wildmon (who started this flap) and his ilk are more interested in having their particular religious beliefs to any promotion of patriotism than they are in said promotion.

-Eric