Posted on 09/29/2004 1:09:32 AM PDT by familyop
Dear [reader],
Suppose I told you Procter & Gamble created and ran an ad that showed two men (in fuzzy focus at top center of the ad) in bed after an apparent sexual encounter.
Suppose I told you the ad showed clothing scattered across the floor like the two men were in a hurry to get undressed and get into the bed.
Suppose I told you the P&G ad was captioned with these words: "You were more concerned with taking them off than folding them up." (In other words, the two men just could not wait to get into bed to have homosexual sex.)
Suppose the ad goes on to say that you can use Downy Wrinkle Release, a P&G product, to unwrinkle your clothes left on the floor in your haste to get into bed.
Suppose I told you this ad, which leaves the impression that homosexual sex is normal, thrilling and exciting, was created by P&G and run in a homosexual publication called Xtra.
I know you would have a hard time believing me. So see it for yourself. Click here to see the ad. If that link is no longer active, Click here.
There should be no doubt P&G is aggressively promoting the homosexual agenda. A company doesn't create and run an ad that leaves the impression that homosexual sex is thrilling and exciting unless they support the homosexual agenda.
It should come as no surprise when P&G supports homosexual marriage. This is the company that has aggressively come out in favor of repealing the law in Cincinnati which forbids giving homosexuals special rights, but at the same time has refused to support the Ohio Marriage Protection Amendment which defines marriage as being only between one man and one woman.
Remember, this is the company that said they "will not tolerate discrimination [against homosexuals] in any form, against anyone, for any reason." To keep homosexuals from being legally married is discrimination [for good reason] that P&G says they will not tolerate.
American Family Association is asking individuals to:
(1) Boycott three products of P&G Crest toothpaste, Tide detergent, and Pampers diapers. (Make sure your replacement is not a P&G product. Look on the back of the product.)
(2) Call Chairman A.G. Lafley at 513-983-1100 and politely let him know that you are participating in the boycott and will ask others to do the same.
(3) Click here to register your support for the boycott.
(4) Please forward this to your friends and family. They will have to see it to believe it, also.
(5) Click here to print out and distribute the boycott Crest, Tide and Pampers petition.
Sincerely,
Don
It's true and it is DISGUSTING!
Copied & forwarded in email. Thanks.
The link clearly says that the ad was printed in a gay newspaper, and was not intended for general mainstream consumer consumption.
What is such a big deal about that?
Tauiloring ads for particular markets is not unusual in advertising. While I personally don't find the ad appealing, or even creative, it's clearly intended for the market that reads the gay themed newspaper, and also intended to be a bit whimsical for them.
If it featured a man and a woman in bed in an ad in Playboy Magazine, I still wouldn't find it appealing or creative, but I wouldn't find it particularly offensive.
What is the big deal?
I don't see this as 'promoting gay sex' as this ad was in a gay magazine in the first place.
I will continue to buy my Crest toothpaste..
silly new yorker!
don't you know that, before any gay men dare reveal their true natures, they should be encouraged to marry our sisters, father a few children and get alected to high political office as republicans?
"What is the big deal?"
Answer: Now a lot of people know why they're such pigs.
http://www.umich.edu/~urel/admissions/legal/gru_amicus/32_internatl.pdf
Fortune 500 Corporations that filed briefs in favor
of "affirmative action" for Michigan University
3M
Abbott Laboratories
American Airlines
Ashland
Bank One
Boeing
Coca-Cola
Dow Chemical
E.I. Du Pont De Nemours
Eastman Kodak
Eli Lilly
Ernst & Young
Exelon
Fannie Mae
General Dynamics
General Mills
Intel
Johnson & Johnson
Kellogg
KPMG
Lucent Technologies
Microsoft
Mitsubishi
Nationwide Mutual Insurance
Nationwide Financial
Pfizer
PPG
Proctor & Gamble
Sara Lee
Steelcase
Texaco
TRW
United Airlines
General Motors Corporation
http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/1125384/posts
Kerry invests in the following outsourcers:
"BristoMyers Squibb, Medtronics, Proctor & Gamble, SBC Communications, Verizon, Suntrust Banks, ExxonMobil Corp., Intel, Microsoft, 3M, General Electric, Wyeth, Citigroup, BellSouth, American Express, Monsanto, Emerson Electric, Mellon Bank, USAA, AT&T, Comcast, Bear Sterns, Pfizer, Ingerson-Rand, Anheuser Busch, Automatic Data Processing, Bank of America, Becton Dickson, Chevron Texaco, Electronic Data Systems, Equifax, Goldman Sachs, Hershey Foods, Home Depot, IBM, JP Morgan, Johnson & Johnson, Oracle, Pepsico, Sun Microsystems, Target, Texas Instruments, Veritas Software."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A19485-2002Nov21¬Found=true
"says the New York Daily News.
'Pepsi, Coke, Proctor & Gamble, Western Union and Switzerland-based Nestle are among the companies that bought ads on Al-Manar, Hezbollah's television outlet in Lebanon. Al-Manar is not on the Treasury Department's terrorist watch list, but Hezbollah has been for many years.'" (Howard Kurtz, Washington Post)
http://www.washblade.com/2004/9-24/view/actionalert/action.cfm
Action! Alert: Proctor & Gamble under fire
Conservatives charge company secretly backs same-sex marriage
(Washington Blade) [Many of the homo-activist sites are calling
for all homosexual activists to run to the aid of the company.]
Why is Wildmon looking though gay magazines in order to find things that will offend him. What exactly does he expect to find? If P&G wants to advertise to a target audience with specific graphics which address that particular group I see nothing wrong with it. This does not warrant a boycott in my opinion.
The answer is in the comment just above your comment.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1230080/posts?page=9#9
I'm not a new yorker, sorry.
This is just a silly exericse. It has nothing to do with anything. Anyone who runs with stuff like this does conservatives a disservice.
Except Wildmon is promoting the boycott on the basis of the ad and not on the basis of them promoting gay marriage. Furthermore, Proctor & Gamble came under fire for promoting the repeal of some anti gay laws in Cincinati, which by the way was also supported by the Catholic Arch Bishop. Proctor & Gamble has taken no stand on Gay marriage. I am not defending anything P&G did either way, but I think boycots like this in which the message is fuzzy and the ads in question taken out of context, only hurt the cause.
(1) Boycott three products of P&G Crest toothpaste, Tide detergent, and Pampers diapers. (Make sure your replacement is not a P&G product. Look on the back of the product.)
The ad was for Downy.
I have replaced Tide, Downey and Cascade with P&C's competitors brands with one problem............I bought Cheer and found that IT is a P&C product......(won't make that mistake again).........I feel so dirty. *~*
I second your opinion!
Wildmon and his cohort are Grade A kooks.
I've no problem what so ever with P&G selling to an affluent market segment who need their products.
I'd only question P&G's judgement if they were to place an ad for Pampers in the Advocate.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.