AFA calls for boycott against P&G based on gay support

[lil-petunia]

I thought it was funny at the time. I voted in an American Family poll, in which they tried to show that all americans were for making homosexuality illegal, or something.

since then, they have offered to set me up with christian dates, get car loans, and buy real estate from other christians. Silly me.

my fave, though, is the following:
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E-Mail from AFA

Suppose I told you Procter & Gamble created and ran an ad that showed two men (in fuzzy focus at top center of the ad) in bed after an apparent sexual encounter.

Suppose I told you the ad showed clothing scattered across the floor like the two men were in a hurry to get undressed and get into the bed.

Suppose I told you the P&G ad was captioned with these words: "You were more concerned with taking them off than folding them up." (In other words, the two men just could not wait to get into bed to have homosexual sex.)

Suppose the ad goes on to say that you can use Downy Wrinkle Release, a P&G product, to unwrinkle your clothes left on the floor in your haste to get into bed.

Suppose I told you this ad, which leaves the impression that homosexual sex is normal, thrilling and exciting, was created by P&G and run in a homosexual publication called Xtra.

I know you would have a hard time believing me. So see it for yourself. Click here to see the ad. If that link is no longer active, Click here.

There should be no doubt P&G is aggressively promoting the homosexual agenda. A company doesn't create and run an ad that leaves the impression that homosexual sex is thrilling and exciting unless they support the homosexual agenda.

It should come as no surprise when P&G supports homosexual marriage. This is the company that has aggressively come out in favor of repealing the law in Cincinnati which forbids giving homosexuals special rights, but at the same time has refused to support the Ohio Marriage Protection Amendment which defines marriage as being only between one man and one woman.

Remember, this is the company that said they "will not tolerate discrimination in any form, against anyone, for any reason." To keep homosexuals from being legally married is discrimination that P&G says they will not tolerate.

American Family Association is asking individuals to:

(1) Boycott three products of P&G — Crest toothpaste, Tide detergent, and Pampers diapers. (Make sure your replacement is not a P&G product. Look on the back of the product.)

(2) Call Chairman A.G. Lafley at 513-983-1100 and politely let him know that you are participating in the boycott and will ask others to do the same.

(3) Click here to register your support for the boycott.

(4) Please forward this to your friends and family. They will have to see it to believe it, also.

(5) Click here to print out and distribute the boycott Crest, Tide and Pampers petition.

Sincerely,


Don
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Oops, got to go shopping. Let's see, Tide, Crest, what else do I need?

[Beware the Beast Man]

1. P&G have a reputation for being very sue-happy.

I'd like to see them take the AFA to the cleaners!

[lil-petunia]

2. recall the precurser to AFA?

They were the idjuts who claimed that P&G's logo was that of the devil. and that the company was controlled by satan.

I seem to recall some litigation about that, but years ago.

[eyesroll]

4. I believe Amway had a bit to do with that.

Weird competition, and all. (I talked to a P&G marketing person about that a few years back; he got all coy.)

[Beware the Beast Man]

6. Exactamundo!

That's what I had in mind. P&G are a very protective bunch.

[Norbert]

12. They have taken people to court a few times over the logo

The idiot religous nuts from the bible belt seem to eb the ones always making the claim.

[kick-ass-bob]

3. Good Heavens!!

They dared to advertise in a gay magazine using a gay couple?

The shock and horror...

Hmm, I need toothpaste and laundry detergent, Crest and Tide it is!!

[lil-petunia]

5. we are so silly. most freepers don't know what toothpaste is for

in the first place.

and laundry? soap? what fer?

[terrya]

7. Advertisers are waking up to the fact that the gay market is profitable.

Slowly...slowly...advertisers are realizing that advertising to gay and lesbian folks is good for business.

These ridiculous boycott threats by the extra chromosome people are all going to fail.

[noonwitch]

8. Are these the same fundies who claimed that P&G's logo is satanic?

When I was a kid in fundieland (Grand Rapids, MI), people were always saying that the man/moon symbol of P&G's was an emblem for none other than Satan himself.

[lil-petunia]

9. that's the one. I never knew the amway connection

But AFA did not start until some way through Clinton's admin. They gathered the worst elements of the Moral Majority and other defunct ultra-right, christian orgs.

I've read that they have met with people in the white house and talked brass tacks about policy. Considering the only book you are allowed to carry in public there is King james version, it is no surprise that they do meet and plot all things political.

[Phillycat]

10. Here's a list of Proctor and Gamble products

Stock up!

http://www.pg.com/products/pg_products.jhtml

[rexcat]

11. P&G has a anti-discrimination statement for the workplace...

that includes sexual preference and has had it for years. The sad thing about this controversy is P&G executives think that the anti-gay measures in Cincinnati and the "Marriage Act" to change the Ohio Constitution are not good for business in Cincinnati or Ohio. It just shows how bigoted people are in this State and across the country.

[Norbert]

13. Boycott P&G, Heinz, movies, music 'cept redneck Country

Do these people even have a life?

[arwalden]

14. Suppose The Writer Of That Copy Has A Homoerotic Active Imagination...

I think he's definitely trying to suppress some pent up desires for man-flesh. Just reading it got me all hot.

-- Allen