...the "greeting card industries" must really be
hurtin' to produce this "kind of product".
Posted on 08/23/2008 3:23:32 AM PDT by TheAverageGuy
A full-scale boycott against the world’s largest greeting card company will begin next week, prompted by the introduction of new products intended to congratulate recipients of so-called “gay wedding” and “civil union” contracts in states that recently began granting them to homosexual couples.
The pro-family campaign against Hallmark Cards, Inc. is being orchestrated by the nationally-organized Family Policy Network (FPN), which is based in Forest, Virginia. Several state-based pro-family groups are participating in the boycott, and their names will be featured on the boycott website when it is launched next week.
FPN Policy Analyst Alex Mason stated Friday that whenever evangelicals were informed of Hallmark’s pro-homosexual cards, interest was high in holding the card-maker accountable. He said, “Up to this point, Hallmark’s brand was pretty wholesome. If they don’t reconsider this endorsement of immorality, they’ll lose more customers than they stand to gain.” He added, “We hope our efforts to hold them accountable will help them see the light.”
An official announcement from Family Policy Network concerning BOYCOTTHALLMARK.COM will be distributed to national media outlets and the group’s supporters in all 50 states next week.
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RELATED LINKS:
Family Policy Network:
http://familypolicy.net/
FPN’s Homosexual Ministry Outreach:
http://hopeforhomosexuals.com/
FPN Leader Defends the Need for Federal Marriage Amendment on CNN:
http://familypolicy.net/43wrongs/?p=473
ugh, stupid...
Boycotts (threatened or otherwise) and bad publicity CAN get a company to change policy!
(I don’t think its stupid at all. Look at the recent results of the episode with Tyson in Shelbyville, TN.
Boycotts (threatened or otherwise) and bad publicity CAN get a company to change policy!)
I disagree on the possibility of outcomes.. All you are doing is giving Hallmark more reason to write YOU (people that feel and beleive as you) OFF.
There is LARGE money in the Homosexual Community and Agenda. Why do you think the Democrat Party is in bed with them, no pun intended.
So you announce a big boycott. Hallmark takes note checks it sale relative to you (Boycott) and relative to the Homosexual agenda.
You would have to have a MAJOR impact in their dollars for them to notice the loss of your business compared to the pick up from the Homosexual agenda.
If their figures show no net loss from those that oppose the Homosexual agenda as compared to the gain by those from the homosexual agenda, this is what will happen.
Hallmark will produce even less cards / items suitable to you and increase those desired by the Homosexual agenda and then other agendas that you would likely have issue with.
Now all that said. I already shop for cards and related items at a local Christian Gift shop or I order online from Christian or Socially responsible companies.
Of course there in lies the problem. Hallmark already realized this and that is why they are courting new markets.
OK, so if nobody counters their amoral business decision, we just give our approval for more by default?!
I agree with you about simply buying something else (or better yet, make it or print it via desktop programs) but to go off into the night without a whimper is just whimpy. We need to make noise, even if ineffective. Personally, I’m glad somebody took the ball and I’ll follow the boycott.
Your right (ô¿ô)
massive emails and boycotts work!
No liberals ever get a free pass! ever (ò¿ó)
I don’t get how it harms anyone for a business to sell a piece of pretty card stock to people who want to buy it. There’s a market out there, regardless of government recognition of the relationship, so why should they ignore it? What’s next, boycotting Hallmark because they sell Islamic, Jewish, or Black-themed greeting cards? There’s people out there who would get right behind any such effort.
Why not pedophile postcards?
Honestly, if you don’t see the dangerous aspects of mainlining and normalizing homosexual unions, you’re in need of more explanations than I can render in a few lines.
The cards make homosexual marriage seem more mainstream. By keeping silent it looks like acquiescence and/or agreement.
I’ve been boycotting Hallmark Cards for years.
IMHO, they are ridiculously overpriced.
I buy greeting cards at the Dollar Store for $.50 each. And they have surprisingly good looking cards at that price.
Do you want a homo at McDonalds making up your kids
hamburgers?(ò¿ó)
I tried to e-mail Hallmark with their online form stating my dissatisfaction yesterday but it wouldn’t go through. I am also considering boycotting their TV channel and push my cable company to quit carrying them.
I do not want to go and get a card only to see cards for homosexuals, especially when I am with my kids.
I have already started the boycott and I hope more will do the same
yes there is a market
for 3 to 5% of the population and yet the majority of the population are to be ignored and have this illegal twisted lifestyle forced upon them
This is about trying to make it seem what homosexuals do is normal or natural when it clearly isn’t
I sent an e0mail to them and called them up
I tried to send them a response to their e0mail but it will not go through
I talked to a rep and she said that they have had tons of calls and mail over this voicing disapproval.
I explained about how they are now trying to force this sick life style upon us and have it see normal
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the woman was in full agreement and said she found it disgusting what Hallmark had done too
Leaving aside the legal & tax aspects, how is two men or two women shacking up and exchanging vows and rings “forcing” anything upon you? How is it “illegal?” What difference does it make to YOU whether it’s “normal” or “natural” if the people involved mind their own business?
And how can you possibly claim that Hallmark is “ignoring” the opposite-sex wedding card market?
the only legit reason to boycott Hallmark!
Thanks upchuck!
Trust me. No one is ignoring the heterosexual wedding market.
Here's the question: odds are pretty good one of my grad school colleagues will have a homosexual wedding at some point. If he were to invite me to the wedding, what should I do? Ignore him? A card saying "I wish you the best" is probably not a bad choice.
Call Hallmark, say you are a Muslim and they offend you.One phone call and they'll be yanked from the shelves faster than tainted beef.
BINGO! And that is what is behind companies (Ford, McDonald's) supporting the agenda and courting the demographic. Maybe I am wrong, but I don't remember seeing Hallmark cards targeted to, say, interracial couples. Must not have met the profitability margin. There are a good many wedding cards out there already that do not depict a man and woman or make reference to the gender of the parties in the verse. Why create a new class of cards?
It's a pity, I liked the Hallmark channel and its mostly wholesome fare. I have bought Hallmark cards in the past, but frankly, most commercially-made cards are too expensive.
[I buy greeting cards at the Dollar Store for $.50 each. And they have surprisingly good looking cards at that price.]
Amen, sister! (or brother.)
Hallmark has long been off my radar.
er it’s forcing me to explain to my kids why two men or two women are doing what they are doing.
I have to explain that nature did not intend for two of the same sex to be together and that they like to be together for perverted sexual acts
Mind my own business , should I do that with polygimists, should I do that when someone wants to make it legal to have sex with animals.
A guy had sex with an animal , no shock in sherborn MA was it, should I ignore that as he isn’t forcing anything on me, should I ignore it because it is his own business?
come on where is the line drawn
your whole argument is flawed and trying to defend something which is not defend able
Ignore, no way, the mroe these homosexuals want to run around and not get help the more my family will never accept them and no I will never be silenced by name calling,
tolerance is what is needed and yes it is the homosexuals who need to find tolerance as it is those who do not tolerate anyone who stands ion their path and point the truth out
O and as for nature
well we were created to be a man and to be with a woman to reproduce and have our species live on
Two men cannot reproduce nor can two women , nature intended for man and a woman to be together
A man arse is designed for things to come out and not certainly for things to go in
A man is designed to have sex with a woman , vica versa
what utter nonsense
what difference does it make to me, ARF
another thing while we’re at it, it it is their business why have the weird parades, why go and have stickers, and what on earth is this gay and proud thing.
Why go and tell everyone
I’m in.
Do you want your children looking at cards for gays at Walmart?
UH, can’t you just send a generic card? Does it have to be homosexuality based?
That would do it. Declare jihad on them.
Well a lot of normal wedding cards will be wildly inappropriate.
So get one without a picture.
What picture do you have in mind? Ewwww...
Simple. You said the normal ones would be inapproiate. I guess that would mean a picture of a man and woman exchanging rings or something. I said just get a card without the picture. If it is so normal, then any old generic verse should cover it.
Inappropriate. My spell checker is broken. LOL
And a lot of greeting card verses are gender-specific.
My point is this: there is a place for a tasteful greeting card. It's an effective way to be polite, even if I don't approve of the behavior.
I am associated with a very pro-American, pro-Family greeting card company that combines the best of Internet with that good old fashioned, barely used but necessary in today's world form of communication-a real, live, snail-mail card.
My kids actually ASK me if they can send thank you's. Freepmail if interested in more information.
Moderator: If this post is deemed inappropriate, then please remove. I don't want to step on any FR rules that I might not be aware of....
Or just don’t send anything at all. Just make a phone call and say have a great life and leave it at that.
Only time I ever go to Hallmark is for Christmas ornaments...Mrs. Santa Fe_Conservative and her mother have this abnormal need to collect everything depending on the series...
What's the best number to call Hallmark?
1 800 425 5627
I along with my wife and two friends have called
there is more info on this contact on the Free republic, click on homosexual agenda, then you will see another thread about Hallmark , it might be about half way down but the info is on there.
Also you’ll find the numbers to press to get though straight away
good luck and let your voice be heard as they are blocking mail coming in
the thread is called now on the Hallmark channel it has around 72 replies but all the info is there for you or anyone else
A whole slew of the birthday cards for young heterosexual men and women on display at a card shop near you are not suitable for children's eyes, between the nearly naked swimsuit models and the mildly amusing explicit sexual innuendo.
So why should I worry about a wedding card with two tuxedos on it?
Because homosexuality is deviant, dangerous, disgusting behavior that must be tolerated but should not be celebrated. This is the mainstreaming of the aberrant and naturalizing of the unnatural.
This is a fight of decency and god vs indecency and evil.
Sorry. “good” not “god”.
Preview is your friend.
I once went to a Chinese restaurant that was a favorite of the local Chinese people. I was served what smelled for all the world like a steaming pile of composting grass clippings on a plate, and it disgusted me.
Japanese people eat fungu, which is a sushi made from the puffer fish, the organs of which contain a highly-lethal neurotoxin.
Should we thus rally around the restaurant with pitchforks and torches demanding that people stop this disgusting and dangerous behavior?
What ever happened to “live and let live?” Why do you find a greeting card with two tuxedos on it so threatening? It’s not as though that if there were no greeting cards, there’d be no same-sex relationships, so what difference does a greeting card make in the grand scheme of things?
Because developing a taste for bizarre food is not the same as developing a taste for deviant sex.
Accepting its existence is one thing, but elevating the sexual preferences of these people to the realm of normal or that which is to be celebrated is an affront to decent society.
Would you find cards that celebrated polygamist Muslim marriages acceptable? Consenting adult incest unions?
These things, like the food you mentioned, may exist, but polite decent society does not condone or encourage them. That is what this is about.
No one is talking about either criminalizing the acts or the cards. We are simply saying that this is a poor business decision and we aim to help them see it.
I’ll not support a company that supports this kind of behavior. Being conservative is a helluva lot more than just being for low taxes and a strong military.
Why does it matter? It doesn't cost me anything when they're made, and I'm not required to buy them, or even pick them up off the rack.
I'm far more offended that I'm forced to pay, via my taxes, a share of $336 million to Planned Parenthood in a year in order to snuff out the lives of innocent, defenseless babies, but it's against the law to boycott the government by keeping your own money.
Compared to that, two men or two women committing to spend their lives with one another is a glowing beacon of wholesome Americana.
Expending so much energy over a few sappy, nondescript greeting cards is a waste of precious energy that could go to winning hearts and minds to the cause of life and liberty, something that this feel-good hysterical "think of the children" boycott nonsense is doing the opposite of.
We should concentrate on world-proofing our children with the Holy Armor of the love of the Almighty, instead of trying to child-proof the world and forcing others to permit us to avoid having to explain things that are difficult or uncomfortable to explain.
Straw man. I never said the key reason was protecting children from the greeting cards aisle.
I said that the issue here was the Hallmark company is endorsing, celebratri8ng, and helping to mainstream, disgusting, evil, unnatural, dangerous sexually deviant behavior - which DOES have a negative effect on society as a whole - and it is both proper and logical to make the decision to NOT reward them for this behavior by withdrawing your patronage.
It they created sympathy cards for abortions with proceeds going to “planned parenthood” would you feel the same way?
Do you have a problem with anal sexual relations between heterosexuals? Is your objection with both people being of the same sex?
yes and yes
why do you not?
Do you think they should be married becsuse of that they like to do sexually?
The fact that these people think they should be married and then tell people what they do is just down right disgusting.
I said heterosexuals not homosexuals.
I was asking you if you had a problem with a man and a woman engaging in anal sex.
OK you asked me two questions and I believe I said yes and yes
Tha is two answers
The rest I have said to you
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