Join the BOYCOTT Against Hallmark for its ‘Gay Wedding’ Cards

Family Policy Network ^ | 9/23/08 | Family Policy Network

[TheAverageGuy]

Join the BOYCOTT Against Hallmark for its ‘Gay Wedding’ Cards

 Family Policy Network (FPN) is calling for a nation-wide boycott against America’s largest greeting card company for aligning itself with liberal activists who want to redefine morality and the institution of marriage. FPN announced the boycott against Hallmark Cards, Inc. after the company introduced new greeting cards aimed at “congratulating” homosexuals who enter into so-called “gay marriage” contracts and “civil unions.”

According to an 8/21/08 news story from the Associated Press, Hallmark spokeswoman Sarah Kolell said the company introduced the pro-homosexual cards in an attempt to be “relevant” to as many consumers as possible.

Yet the Bible states in Isaiah 5:20:

“Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; Who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!” (NKJV)

It is likewise clear that God is the Author of marriage, and His design is expressed very clearly in the New Testament by Jesus Christ, who declared in Mark 10:6-8:

“But from the beginning of the creation, God ‘made them male and female.’ ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’; so then they are no longer two, but one flesh.” (NKJV)

Despite these warnings in Scripture, Hallmark now offers cards that celebrate homosexual “marriage.” The cards use various forms of clear homosexual symbolism, including rainbow-colored hearts and an image of two tuxedos, side-by-side.

This is not the only way that Hallmark endorses homosexual immorality. According to the Associated Press, the company also distributes cards designed to “show support” for homosexuals upon their “coming out,” which is a slang term referring to one’s initial declaration of their homosexual perversion.

Despite claiming they want to appeal to as many people as possible, the decision-makers at Hallmark clearly have no problem offending millions of pro-family Americans who know the Bible declares in Proverbs 14:34:

“Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people.” (NKJV)

This is a defining moment in the war over marriage and the family as an enduring institution. Rather than broadening its customer base, Hallmark is choosing sides in the culture war - - against Biblical morality. After all, endorsing homosexuality is an offense to God, and it is an offense to Bible-believing Christians everywhere.

Hallmark says their move was a result of “public demand,” rather than political pressure. But what if a significant portion of its customers demanded Hallmark discontinue their promotion of homosexuality? Would they reverse course?

Hallmark’s annual revenue last year was over $4 billion, prompting FPN Policy Analyst Alex Mason to ask, “What if hundreds of thousands of Americans decided to take their business elsewhere because of the company’s pro-homosexual actions? Would the ‘gay marriage’ cards make up for the lost revenue from pro-family Americans who buy other brands?” He answered, “I doubt it.”

No matter what kind of reaction Hallmark has to a boycott, Mason believes Christians are called to take moral stands and to confront immorality in the culture whenever possible.

Mason said, “Jesus commanded us to be ’salt and light.’ That’s why we’re calling on Christians to draw a line in the sand and refuse to do business with Hallmark unless and until they drop their pro-homosexual cards from their line of products.”

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TAKE ACTION:

 

By signing Family Policy Network’s SECURE petition, your name and contact data will be compiled with many others from all over the United States who are opposed Hallmark’s pro-homosexual cards. The list will be forwarded to Hallmark Chairman Donald J. Hall along with the verses above and an admonition to stop endorsing homosexual immorality.

 

To sign this petition now, click here: 
http://familypolicynetwork.net/petition/hallmark

Thank you for your support. Let’s pray together for Hallmark to do the right thing and pull these cards from their shelves.

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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

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Family Policy Network (FPN) is an independent, national, 501(c)(3) non-profit organization with board members and advisors in Georgia, Illinois, Michigan, Mississippi, North Carolina, Ohio, Virginia and Tennessee. The group has supporters and participants in every state in the nation.

[TheAverageGuy]

I just signed the petition to boycott Hallmark. We've GOT to take a stand against their efforts to undermine family values on behalf of our children!

[silverleaf]

thanks for the heads up

[wtc911]

ditto

[gieriscm]

I was already boycotting Hallmark for giving donations to anti-RKBA organizations. Thanks for giving me another reason! Now maybe I can get my MIL to stop buying their cards.

[KeepUSfree]

No.

I have no problem with civil unions.

[stuartcr]

I won’t boycott because I believe that the company has a right to sell their product, whether or not I agree with it’s message.

[Rebelbase]

Gay wedding cards will be as commercially successful as was the Urban Sombrero.

[donnab]

I agree. Lest we forget, that’s what makes us the USA the USA. I am not forced to buy the product in question.
But I won’t boycott them because I do not agree with something. I hate the “I must be right” mentality on both sides of the aisle.

[Vanders9]

I’m strongly against the redefinition of marriage too...I think its a disastrous step for our culture to take, but I don’t believe in boycotting businesses either. Hallmark are not “endorsing” homosexual marriage. They are just responding to a gap in the market. Our job is to prove there shouldnt BE such a gap.

[jimfree]

Businesses do not force behavior on us - no boycott. I may instead boycott California and Massachusetts.

[stuartcr]

That’s part of the fun of FR...lots of people like that.

Seriously though, I think that’s one of the reasons our country is so divided...the internet has made it very easy for people that are ‘right’ to join together and drown out those that will admit that there may be other views.

[Camel Joe]

In a bad economy things like greeting cards are one of the first items to get cast aside, nice job narrowing your markets dillweeds.

[Adder]

Well I sure as hell will boycott them.

I don’t understand that reasoning at all.

So if they want to make a card for pedophiles[not that they would right now] or polygamists, thats ok? What the heck...all kinds of room under the big tent. I don’t have to buy THAT one.

Doesn’t work for me but whatever floats your boat.

[Canedawg]

Hallmark had a large store two blocks away from the WTC- it was in business for over 20 years.

It closed its doors last year due to less customers in the downtown area since 9/11.

[itsthejourney]

Fine, no boycott. Instead, how about a “I will never ever take my hard earned dollars to that business again” stand? I haven’t done business with Hallmark for years. As with others, this just gives me another reason not to in the future.

[American_Centurion]

Meh. Whatever, they’re selling a card to an extremely small segment, if they want to print them WTF do I care.

Hallmark is NOT the reason gay “marriage” exists. What a waste of electrons.

[codercpc]

My boycott will consist of not buying the gay cards. The rest I will continue to buy.

If Hallmark thinks there is a market for this, more power to them.

[Drawsing]

I am now boycotting McDonald’s and Hallmark. Yes, they have a right to sell what they want, and I have a right not to buy it. In spite of what the popular media tells us, homosexual behavior is a destructive lifestyle. It destroys lives and relationships and contributes to the deterioration of our culture.

As a Christian, I am called to love all men including homosexuals. I count several of them among my friends and acquaintances. I want the best for them and that is why I do not endorse or encourage their self-destructive behavior.

[Vanders9]

I think they’d make a card for fascist dictators if they thought there was a market for it (Congratulations! You’ve just committed your FIRST genocidal act!)

Banning these cards is not going to stop homosexuals “marrying”. Being convinced of the sinfulness of their lifestyle and allowing their lives to be changed right around is going to stop that. So, if you think homosexual “marriage” is wrong, what do you think you should be doing?

Let me put it like this: If someone insists on saying and doing something that you are sure is wrong, you basically have two choices. You can either out-argue them, or you can shut them up. I know its very tempting to simply “shut them up”. You are very convinced they are in the wrong and are doing harm not only to themselves but to all that you hold dear (as indeed they are). Besides “shutting them up” is SO very much easier to do. And of course, the opposition tries to shut US up all the time.

Lovingly bringing those, who after all are made in Gods image, to a personal knowledge of their sinfulness and their need to rethink their entire lives, in the teeth of what can be vicious opposition, is a hard, thankless task that can take years. Decades even. But IMHO that is what God calls us to do.

You put out fires with water, not fires of your own.

[longtermmemmory]

halmark is playing into the “normalization.”

what next:

congratulations on you first crime?
congratulations on the jury finding you not guility?
congratulations on [insert something about farm animals]?
congratulations on cheating on your husband/wife?
congratulations on writing a tasteles SNL skit?

there is a limit and a company should pay the price for it.

[ElectricStrawberry]

OK....I don’t buy from them anyway.

....but my grocery stores have homosexual marriage cards\.

My drug stores have homosexual marriage cards.

....and I gotta shop SOMEWHERE.

[HollyB]

It’s interesting to see the different views concerning your post. I have to say, that although I do not support gay marriage, I do not have a problem with Hallmark. This is a marketing idea for their business, and from their point of view probably a smart one.

Also, I do not think the problem is with Hallmark. And even if they stopped making the cards, it will not change the issue which we are dealing with.

[buckeye12]

But pedophilia and polygamy aren’t legal in parts of this country.

I also cringe anytime our side compares gay marriage beastiality, pedophilia, etc...its not exactly a great comparison and it only marginalizes our cause.

[jilliane]

“My boycott will consist of not buying the gay cards. The rest I will continue to buy.
If Hallmark thinks there is a market for this, more power to them.”

Ditto

[HollyB]

There is a huge difference between those issues, one is legal (homosexual relationship between two adults), and the other is horribly abusive and will never be legal.

[theBuckwheat]

It's a free country, or so we used to commonly say. It is not so free anymore when words can be redefined and then used against us. “Marriage” means some things and nothing else. Now we are being force to accept it means something that is hostile to Judeo-Christian values. Sorry, but I am not playing this game.

Now, in a free country, people are free to have any kind of relationship that is legal. But what is the entire basis of government involvement in marriage in the first place?

It it primarily to enforce taxation! When you tax income, and tax inheritance, not to mention allow fringe benefits, and give exemptions based on marital status, government must define who is “married” and who is not. At first, that definition was made based on Judeo-Christian values. Now it is being used in part to destroy those values.

Replacing the present Death Tax and Income Tax with the Fair Tax greatly erodes the main basis for gay “marriage”. Yet another good reason for the Fair Tax!

It is just time for government to get out of the marriage business entirely. Allow people to freely state who their heirs are, who makes medical decisions for them, who enjoys the right to share their property and get out of these private matters entirely. It is just not government's business, except we have allowed it to be. What we have slowly done over the past generations can be undone if we would just demand it for the sake of our own liberty.

Who would have thought that using government to protect marriage has now been turned on its head. But government is only power, and now its power is being used to destroy liberty.

[donnab]

Thats what makes it great...each to their own opinion.

[weegee]

With the price of greeting cards rising to $2.75-$3.95, it is getting to the price point where you can design your OWN card and go to a copy store and get a nice color printed card made especially for your loved one without funding corporate socialist agendas.

[weegee]

What next “so your husband cheated on you” or “so you got caught” condolence cards?

[weegee]

You obviously need to read up on the Sex Positve agenda as espoused by feminists, Kinsey, and Reich. The goal is to end all moral judgements against all sexual pairings regardless of sex, age, relation, marital status, number, or species of partner(s). They oppose abstinence because they believe it to be an unhealthy supression of sexual desires.

The homosexual agenda has just been a battering ram to society’s laws and mores. Slippery slope here we come.

When the Lawrence v. Texas decision came down from the Supreme Court, we were assured that it was about consenting ADULTS in PRIVATE but we’ve seen it also expanded to include the homosexual actions of minors and to include the promotion of homosexuality as normal in schools and now the expansion to same sex marriage and adoption.

[cookcounty]

Doesn’t Hallmark own some “Christian” greeting card companies?

[Vanders9]

The greetings cards industry is constantly seeking to expand their markets by producing more and more cards for more and more occasions. Is that wrong? That depends on whether you believe that by doing that Hallmark is “pushing” society in a particular direction, OR they are just “reflecting” what is already going on. To a certain extent, they are doing both. They wouldn’t produce these cards unless they thought there was a potential market for them, but on the other hand, the fact that they are doing it “normalises” the behaviour itself.

Perhaps there is a market for “so your husband cheated on you” or “so you got caught” condolence cards. Neither situation is uncommon these days. However, the fact that they are is a sad comment on modern day society, not Hallmark’s business plan.

[dfwgator]

It closed its doors last year due to less customers in the downtown area since 9/11.

Most people I know just print out cards on their home printers. I haven't bought a card in years.

[Adder]

Uh, last time I looked neither was homosexual marriage except in 2 states.

So it IS illegal in 46 states with civil unions approved in NJ and Vermont.

Hey...buy their cards if you will and close your eyes to the disease that is homosexuality.

Can’t wait for the Hallmark cards for the blind, lame, and crippled. [HeyCongratulations on your NEW WHEELCHAIR!]

[Adder]

I agree with all of that but I refuse to enrich those who seek to promote, accept or condone homosexuality in any way shape or form.

It is a disease. it is a deformity. It is like praising people with cleft pallets,club feet or schizophrenia. You do not hate them, you do not punish them.
But you do not pretend they are the same as everyone else either.

[HollyB]

Just because I choose not to boycott Hallmark does not mean that I agree with or promote gay marriage. But, there is a HUGE difference between gay marriage and pedophilia. There is no comparison. One is abuse and one is not. One is consensual and one is not. Personally, I don't agree with homosexuality, but I believe judgment belongs to God. And I believe there are bigger issues to divert my time to than a Hallmark card. But, this is what makes America great, is the ability to share our ideas, free speech, personal boycott, have sites like Free Republic to share our ideas, even when we do not agree. Just because we do not agree on every issue, should not give us reason to insult one another.

[Rick.Donaldson]

Nice thought, but you have to have a LOT of people boycott something before the boycott works - basically, they just don’t work.

50% of the population is Left. 50% of the population is Right.

You’re going to need an awful lot of the 50% to do it.

So... basically it isn’t going to help.

[Adder]

I hope you do not think I was being insulting....wasn’t my intention.

Situational cynicism, not personal.