Posted on 04/02/2013 8:08:12 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Yes. Next question.
RESPONSE FROM THE GENERAL MANAGER OF THE AMERICAN FAMILY RADIO NETWORK
Buster Wilson
TITLE:
Respectfully, I Believe Dr. Moore Is Just Wrong About Boycotts
EXCERPT:
Moore accuses Christians who would participate in a boycott of Starbucks as, “exposing…our worst tendencies..”, and of, “fighting like the devil to please the Lord.” I suggest that Dr. Moore feels this way because he does not understand the total motivation for doing a boycott.
A boycott, in Dr. Moore’s understanding, is nothing more than a battle of economic power. He sees using the tool of a boycott as a way of simply hurting the company economically as a method of bullying them into adopting “our” view. If we can muscle them with enough economic power to force them to stop what they’re doing, that makes us the majority. So we are forcing them to adopt our “majority” view. That’s his first mistake. He says that, “a boycott assumes that the rightness of a marriage definition is constituted by a majority with power….”, since we are hammering that point away as the only right way to believe by our attempt to hurt them by our place in the “supposed” majority with economic power.
I will concede that if we were to boycott, we would be using the tool of economic strength to make a point. But not the point that Dr. Moore says we are trying to make.
I see a greater good that is done toward the members of the Christian community through the information and execution of a boycott. And that greater good is far more desirable than “hurting the company.” As a Christian, I shouldn’t have the desire to “hurt (a) company” with a boycott or anything else. As a follower of God’s Word, I am to do good to those who despise me and I’m to love my enemies. A desire to simply “hurt” a company would be undesirable as a Christian.
However, I see the greater good as informing Christian consumers about trying to do something better with their economic “power” than to enable a company with the power to accomplish something that we Christians would disagree with.
We all lament the distasteful and sometimes even ungodly way our tax dollars are spent. None of us would want our tax dollars to be used to pay for abortions. But what can you do about tax appropriation other than use the fear of the ballot box to either elect someone else or motivate currently elected officials to do differently? But that is exactly what we do and how we do it. And it is right to do so! That’s the same kind of “muscle” in a boycott.
A boycott gives the consumer the personal power they could never exercise with their taxes; the ability to control the influence of their financial power!
If I am a believer in the biblical definition and symbolism of traditional/natural marriage, then I don’t want any of my money to help pay for the promotion and legalization of same-sex marriage! IF a company is using their profits from retail sales to promote an ungodly ideal, then it is a great benefit to me to know about it! Why? So I can give my financial resources to someone else who won’t use my dollars to promote and support ungodly causes!
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Why not just let people make their own, individual decisions instead of telling people what to do?
No we should just sit quietly and seek only to please our liberal masters.
good grief
Absolutely they should.
For me it is not a question as there are none anywhere near and the price would have kept me away anyway.
I don’t go there any more for coffee.
Yup, already have.
Shove it, bucks....you evidently like that sort of thing anyway.
As I skimmed over the words to avoid reading the article, I’m simply reminded that Starbucks has terrible coffee. That is enough to cause me to avoid it.
How is JC Penny doing these days?
I don’t even drink coffee. But why send your enemies money?
Never went to Starbucks.Yesterday ordered a large black coffee at Dunkin Donuts.The voice said”A large Black Coffee”I said yes.The voice said “Do you want that black”:)
I gather, you don’t buy things online at Amazon either...
RE: The voice said”A large Black Coffee”I said yes.The voice said “Do you want that black”:)
If were you, I’d ask him -— What Year was the War of 1812?
Or what was the color of The Lone Ranger’s White Horse?
There are other places to shop online.
I have no problem with people wanting to boycott businesses. Unfortunately, nearly all of corporate America is tied in with political correctness and socialism.
My own pet peeve is the deluge of “holiday” ads at Christmastime. These ads actively substitute the word “holiday” for Christmas, repeating it over and over and over. The redundancy is appalling. It’s in your face. But they all do it now. I mute the ads during football for over a month. If I want to boycott, there is almost no one to buy gifts from.
Corporate America is a huge part of the socialist beast.
Yep. I boycott everything and everyone who aids and abets the take-down of this country.
I don’t go to Starbucks anyway. Overpriced weak coffee.
Gentile tactics?
I went to one of his websites and cannot believe anything negative of him but I still wonder where "Gentile tactics" came from.
Lording it over others (SUCH an appropriate expression) is TRULY a human trait. Don't you think?
Am I wrong?
Agreed...you don’t need Starbucks. Christians must start acting in unison as a matter of self protection. The progressives (socialists and communists) are coming after us. For awhile they will attempt to legally drive us to fight civil lawsuits...but shortly...the Christian recognition of sin will be established to be a violation of civil rights “law”.
In the old USSR Christians could be locked up in mental wards because of their “delusions”. You know...things like belief in Christ.
Don’t think it won’t happen here...in small and large ways it’s already begun.
The Starbucks and Hollywood stars who mock and marginalize us must be made to pay.
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