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To: Stone Mountain
I like this idea. Particularly because I believe that most boycotts are completely counter-productive. The Last Temptation of Christ would have been a movie that none of us had heard of except for the religious groups that protested it. Sean Penn has just given Parker and Stone a ton of free publicity for their movie with his stupid criticisms. I think that it's possible that some boycotts could conceivably work in a limited way, but for the most part, the publicity that boycotts create almost always backfires on the protestors.

Oh, you're right! Just look at all the publicity thru the centuries that God's boycott of Sodom & Gomorrah has received. Now, some people say there are more homosexuals world-wide than ever.

God, a word to the wise. When you're provoked, just stay quiet. Go along with business as usual. Eventually, the lack of a media hubbub about it will mean that Sodom & Gomorrah would have eventually faded into the woodwork. I mean, at that time, gays couldn't naturally reproduce anyway. If ya woulda just left matters alone & not made a big stink, we all know that gayness is just genetic, anyway, and therefore, those civilizations promoting homosexuality would have just died out. That's a genetic fact, Lord! Lord? Are ya listening, Lord?

77 posted on 10/12/2004 10:31:58 AM PDT by Colofornian
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To: Colofornian

Sorry, I read your post a few times but I don't get your point. Is your point that boycotts really are effective? Is it that it doesn't matter if they are effective because they are right? I have no idea how what you posted relates to the point I made in post 72.


88 posted on 10/12/2004 12:33:32 PM PDT by Stone Mountain
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