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MILLER BREWING KNOWS THE STAKES: MUST PULL SPONSORSHIP OF OBSCENE EVENT(Catholic League)
Catholic League ^ | September 25, 2007 | staff

Posted on 09/26/2007 7:49:01 AM PDT by kellynla

On September 30, San Francisco’s Folsom Street Fair will be held. The ad for this year’s gay/leather event depicts half-naked homosexuals at a table mimicking the Last Supper. The sadomasochistic theme features sex toys displayed on the table.

Catholic League president Bill Donohue explains his response today:

“Kudos to Concerned Women for America for bringing this obscenity to the attention of the public. Their strategy is to get California politicians to denounce this event. Our strategy is to get Miller Brewing Company to withdraw its sponsorship. Here’s why.

“There are several sponsors to this street fair, but most are local and represent niche markets; Miller is the only national household sponsor. Furthermore, Miller has a record of acceding to requests from various segments of the population that have objected to certain ads: it has bowed to the wishes of Muslims, African-American clergy, lawyers and feminists by pulling ads deemed offensive. Surely it will do the same in this instance: the ad, like the event, is morally depraved. Indeed, it is the kind of ad that only the enemies of Christians would entertain.

“We have contacted Miller Brewing and expect that they will cooperate and do what is ethically right.”

Contact: Miller spokesman Julian Green at green.julian@mbco.com


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News
KEYWORDS: beer; catholicleague; donohue; homosexualagenda; lastsupper; miller; millerbear; pervsonparade; sfstreetfair
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To: L98Fiero

I never liked Miller, either. Miller Hi-Life always tasted skunky to me. Bud and Coors are just boring ... “back then” I drank Michelob ... which really isn’t much better than Bud.


21 posted on 09/26/2007 7:59:11 AM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: kellynla

Consumer Response Center at 1-800-MILLER 6 for anyone wishing to speak to them about the events they sponsor.


22 posted on 09/26/2007 7:59:38 AM PDT by driftdiver
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To: Post-Neolithic

Laura Ingraham just mentioned that Miller ALSO sponsored the ILLEGALS RALLY!! This Gay crap has gotten out of hand. I had nothing against gays before, but it’s getting DISGUSTING.....they are acting like UNCIVILZED ANIMALS with this anti-Christian crap.


23 posted on 09/26/2007 7:59:57 AM PDT by Suzy Quzy (Hillary '08...Her PHONINESS is REAL!!!)
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To: kellynla

It sort of makes sense that Miller Brewing would sponsor such an event when you consider how their beer sucks.


24 posted on 09/26/2007 8:00:04 AM PDT by FormerLib (Sacrificing our land and our blood cannot buy protection from jihad.-Bishop Artemije of Kosovo)
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To: AmericaUnited

The article says CWA is contacting politicians, not Miller. The Catholic League is going after Miller, and AFAIK, Catholics do consume a fair amount of the suds.


25 posted on 09/26/2007 8:00:08 AM PDT by savedbygrace (SECURE THE BORDERS FIRST (I'M YELLING ON PURPOSE))
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To: HamiltonJay

“Well, they can count me out as a consumer.”

Not sure a silent boycott is the best approach here. We need more press to wake other companies up.


26 posted on 09/26/2007 8:01:15 AM PDT by driftdiver
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To: driftdiver
Consumer Response Center at 1-800-MILLER 6 for anyone wishing to speak to them about the events they sponsor.

If you call, don't insult their product. It's not a boycott if you refuse to drink it because it tastes like crap.

27 posted on 09/26/2007 8:01:24 AM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: ArrogantBustard

I do not drink anything miller makes and I do not diginfy it by calling it beer. It is a rice and corn based malt beverage.


28 posted on 09/26/2007 8:01:33 AM PDT by Hydroshock ("The Constitution should be taken like mountain whiskey -- undiluted and untaxed." - Sam Ervin)
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To: MeanWestTexan

I don’t understand your post. Could you explain it please?


29 posted on 09/26/2007 8:01:35 AM PDT by CaliGirlGodHelpMe
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To: kellynla

Fags have to mock Christian Values to somehow make themselves feel better about their immoral and filthy butt-sex!


30 posted on 09/26/2007 8:02:28 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: Hydroshock

“I do not diginfy it by calling it beer. It is a rice and corn based malt beverage.”

Well put.


31 posted on 09/26/2007 8:04:23 AM PDT by L98Fiero (A fool who'll waste his life, God rest his guts.)
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To: kellynla; george76

Quick stat note to Miller CEO and board members.

This gay sponsorship is worse than the Dixie Chicks marketing strategy, where they poed about 50% of their potential market.

Miller is trying to po over 90% of their potential market with this outrage.


32 posted on 09/26/2007 8:04:38 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Waiting for the Next H$U to fall!)
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To: ArrogantBustard

Update:

http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=/Culture/archive/200709/CUL20070926b.html

Miller Brewing Pulls Logo From ‘Last Supper’ Advertisement
By Randy Hall
CNSNews.com Staff Writer/Editor
September 26, 2007

(CNSNews.com) - “The Miller Brewing Company, a sponsor of this weekend’s homosexual “leather” street fair in San Francisco, has asked to have its logo removed from an advertising poster that has offended some Christians.”

Offended “some” Christians...


33 posted on 09/26/2007 8:04:43 AM PDT by milford421 (U.N. OUT OF U.S.)
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To: kellynla

I suppose Miller decided it’s core market was more gays than it was Christians.


34 posted on 09/26/2007 8:05:01 AM PDT by highlander_UW (I don't know what my future holds, but I know Who holds my future)
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To: driftdiver

Miller Brewing is owned by SAB MILLER a London based company which is public owned & shares are traded on the London Stock Exchange.
http://www.answers.com/topic/sabmiller


35 posted on 09/26/2007 8:05:14 AM PDT by kellynla (Freedom of speech makes it easier to spot the idiots! Semper Fi!)
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To: kellynla

Miller Beer? They can pump that stuff back into the horse.


36 posted on 09/26/2007 8:05:24 AM PDT by Sig Sauer P220
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To: 1rudeboy; driftdiver

Miller is one of the brands of SABMiller, a brewing and hotel conglomerate that is based in London and trades on the London exchange. It’s largest shareholders (the owners) are the Altria Group (29%) aka Phillip Morris, the former owner of Miller, and Bevco Int’l (15%) a Houston-based importer and distributer of beer/wine/liquor.


37 posted on 09/26/2007 8:12:11 AM PDT by green iguana
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To: kellynla

Miller has been exposed. Too late to pretend that they are sorry.

Maybe they can paint their race car in rainbow colors. Is there a gay guy in the “Man Club”? What did they mean by “Tastes Great, Less Filling”?


38 posted on 09/26/2007 8:19:30 AM PDT by gathersnomoss (General George Patton had it right.)
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To: kellynla

why would anyone in their right mind drink Miller products anyway. The only product they brew that is worth a crap is Leine. I’ve been boycotting them since the decision to sponosor the illegal immagrant rallys earlier this year-well with te exception of a Leine every now and then.


39 posted on 09/26/2007 8:20:54 AM PDT by mrmargaritaville
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To: RexBeach

“Good Lord, imagine, in a city named for St. Francis, that this extraordinary depravity occurs so regularly.”

You would think that the San Francissys would have learned something from the 1989 if not the 1906 earthquake!


40 posted on 09/26/2007 8:21:19 AM PDT by kellynla (Freedom of speech makes it easier to spot the idiots! Semper Fi!)
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