Stated clerk gets NCC to join Taco Bell boycott

The Layman Online ^ | Nov. 10, 2003 | none given

[PAR35]

Clifton Kirkpatrick, the stated clerk of the Presbyterian Church (USA), has coaxed his allies in the National Council of Churches to join the PCUSA's boycott of Taco Bell.

"Any time a Christian community comes together and seeks to exercise economic justice in this way, it is because there is a very serious injustice that cannot be resolved in any other way," said the Rev. Clifton Kirkpatrick, one of leaders of the social-activist ecumenical body which held its annual assembly in Jackson, Miss., on Nov. 6-8.

Kirkpatrick introduced the resolution calling on the NCC to join a tomato-picker's labor union in its opposition to Taco Bell's use of hand-picked tomatoes because, they say, pickers are not paid enough money for their toil.

Also, the National Council of Churches voted in favor of a boycott against Mount Olive Pickle Co. in Mount Olive, N.C., another target of farm labor. Mount Olive's former president, John Neal Walker, is a devout Presbyterian. Furthermore, the company has been recognized by the N.C. Department of Labor as a leader in improving conditions for migrant workers.

An editorial in the Winston-Salem Journal, which is not a conservative newspaper, says that the farm labor organization that has called for the boycott against Mount Olive has conducted a campaign that is "tinged with deception."

Dr. James McChesney, a retired Presbyterian pastor and former moderator of the Presbyterian Synod of North Carolina, has questioned "the fairness, the wisdom and even the helpfulness of the boycott of Mount Olive Pickle Co."

Neither Taco Bell, whose parent company is Yum! Brands, nor Mount Olive Pickle Co. hires pickers. Taco Bell purchases tomatoes from contractors and Mount Olive buys cucumbers from contract growers. But farm worker unions contend that both companies have the clout to force contractors to pay pickers more money.

At its meeting at the end of September, the PCUSA's General Assembly Council reaffirmed its support of the Taco Bell boycott after receiving a critical letter from the session of Second Presbyterian Church in Staunton, Va. The letter, noting the session's unanimous disagreement with the boycott, said, "More sessions than ours are fed up with paying for things we do not support … We are the ones out here carrying the water for the PCUSA. Please stop shooting more holes in our bucket!"

[PAR35]

I posted this here, rather than under religion, because it speaks more to the strong arm tactics used by core Democrat constituencies than it does to any theological issue.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

Have you seen a FReeper boycott thread lately? Talk about strong arm....

[F.J. Mitchell]

I'll boycott Taco Bell, when the democrats boycott labor unions.

[sticker]

Another reason to eat Taco Bell and kosher dills. Just not at the same ime

[cmsgop]

This Commie boycott has been going on for years...

[JOE6PAK]

Yeah. Go ahead and boycott the "FUDGE PACKERS" union too!

[TommyDale]

One of the most satisfying moments in my life was when Caesar Chavez, the Maxist-Communist leader of the United Farm Workers, was leading a boycott against Safeway Stores in California (they were selling non-UFW union grapes). I came out of the store eating grapes. Nice feeling. These days, I would probaby get shot for that.

[Dog Gone]

The National Council of Churches should drop the pretense.

Change the name to Commie Party International, and quit hiding behind religion as a mask of respectability.

[Dog Gone]

By the way, the enchirito at Taco Bell is pretty dang tasty.

[mhking]

Just damn.

If you want on the new list, FReepmail me. This IS a high-volume PING list...

[YankeeReb]

Kirkpatrick introduced the resolution calling on the NCC to join a tomato-picker's labor union in its opposition to Taco Bell's use of hand-picked tomatoes because, they say, pickers are not paid enough money for their toil.

Shut off the flood of illegal underpaid semi-slave workers from the turd world and wages would have to rise. If these liberal denominations would support the closing of our borders instead of providing water stations in the desert to law breakers the wage problems would be reduced.

[Tacis]

Geez, if the National Council of Churches hadn't spent all that money buying weapons for the communist murders in South Africa's African National Congress (ANC), maybe the could hire some Christian hit men to do some real damage.

[Cultural Jihad]

What has the Marxist NCC got against aunts from Mexico?

[Libertina]

The National Council of Churches is an extreme leftie organization with seemingly very little connection to the Bible. Presbyterian churches are being targeted by lefties to bring about 'change'. Mine, happily, is very conservative and patriotic.

[Cultural Jihad]

Ka-boom!

[Hegemony Cricket]

So, dog, if I tossed you an enchirito, you'd drop the chalupa?

[CARepubGal]

The PCA, RPC, Bible Pres, EPC and OPC do not share the liberal idiocy thankfully. Taco Bell is not hurting from the boycott either. Lunch tomorrow: Yo Quiero Taco Bell. :-)

[Gamecock]

An example of what happens when reprobate liberals join a church.

[LiteKeeper]

INTREP - How many of those union "members" are illegals?

[CARepubGal]

Sad to see this pursuit of irrelevance.