...the "greeting card industries" must really be
hurtin' to produce this "kind of product".
Posted on 08/23/2008 3:23:32 AM PDT by TheAverageGuy
A full-scale boycott against the world’s largest greeting card company will begin next week, prompted by the introduction of new products intended to congratulate recipients of so-called “gay wedding” and “civil union” contracts in states that recently began granting them to homosexual couples.
The pro-family campaign against Hallmark Cards, Inc. is being orchestrated by the nationally-organized Family Policy Network (FPN), which is based in Forest, Virginia. Several state-based pro-family groups are participating in the boycott, and their names will be featured on the boycott website when it is launched next week.
FPN Policy Analyst Alex Mason stated Friday that whenever evangelicals were informed of Hallmark’s pro-homosexual cards, interest was high in holding the card-maker accountable. He said, “Up to this point, Hallmark’s brand was pretty wholesome. If they don’t reconsider this endorsement of immorality, they’ll lose more customers than they stand to gain.” He added, “We hope our efforts to hold them accountable will help them see the light.”
An official announcement from Family Policy Network concerning BOYCOTTHALLMARK.COM will be distributed to national media outlets and the group’s supporters in all 50 states next week.
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RELATED LINKS:
Family Policy Network:
http://familypolicy.net/
FPN’s Homosexual Ministry Outreach:
http://hopeforhomosexuals.com/
FPN Leader Defends the Need for Federal Marriage Amendment on CNN:
http://familypolicy.net/43wrongs/?p=473
ugh, stupid...
Boycotts (threatened or otherwise) and bad publicity CAN get a company to change policy!
(I don’t think its stupid at all. Look at the recent results of the episode with Tyson in Shelbyville, TN.
Boycotts (threatened or otherwise) and bad publicity CAN get a company to change policy!)
I disagree on the possibility of outcomes.. All you are doing is giving Hallmark more reason to write YOU (people that feel and beleive as you) OFF.
There is LARGE money in the Homosexual Community and Agenda. Why do you think the Democrat Party is in bed with them, no pun intended.
So you announce a big boycott. Hallmark takes note checks it sale relative to you (Boycott) and relative to the Homosexual agenda.
You would have to have a MAJOR impact in their dollars for them to notice the loss of your business compared to the pick up from the Homosexual agenda.
If their figures show no net loss from those that oppose the Homosexual agenda as compared to the gain by those from the homosexual agenda, this is what will happen.
Hallmark will produce even less cards / items suitable to you and increase those desired by the Homosexual agenda and then other agendas that you would likely have issue with.
Now all that said. I already shop for cards and related items at a local Christian Gift shop or I order online from Christian or Socially responsible companies.
Of course there in lies the problem. Hallmark already realized this and that is why they are courting new markets.
OK, so if nobody counters their amoral business decision, we just give our approval for more by default?!
I agree with you about simply buying something else (or better yet, make it or print it via desktop programs) but to go off into the night without a whimper is just whimpy. We need to make noise, even if ineffective. Personally, I’m glad somebody took the ball and I’ll follow the boycott.
Your right (ô¿ô)
massive emails and boycotts work!
No liberals ever get a free pass! ever (ò¿ó)
I don’t get how it harms anyone for a business to sell a piece of pretty card stock to people who want to buy it. There’s a market out there, regardless of government recognition of the relationship, so why should they ignore it? What’s next, boycotting Hallmark because they sell Islamic, Jewish, or Black-themed greeting cards? There’s people out there who would get right behind any such effort.
Why not pedophile postcards?
Honestly, if you don’t see the dangerous aspects of mainlining and normalizing homosexual unions, you’re in need of more explanations than I can render in a few lines.
The cards make homosexual marriage seem more mainstream. By keeping silent it looks like acquiescence and/or agreement.
I’ve been boycotting Hallmark Cards for years.
IMHO, they are ridiculously overpriced.
I buy greeting cards at the Dollar Store for $.50 each. And they have surprisingly good looking cards at that price.
Do you want a homo at McDonalds making up your kids
hamburgers?(ò¿ó)
I tried to e-mail Hallmark with their online form stating my dissatisfaction yesterday but it wouldn’t go through. I am also considering boycotting their TV channel and push my cable company to quit carrying them.
I do not want to go and get a card only to see cards for homosexuals, especially when I am with my kids.
I have already started the boycott and I hope more will do the same
yes there is a market
for 3 to 5% of the population and yet the majority of the population are to be ignored and have this illegal twisted lifestyle forced upon them
This is about trying to make it seem what homosexuals do is normal or natural when it clearly isn’t
I sent an e0mail to them and called them up
I tried to send them a response to their e0mail but it will not go through
I talked to a rep and she said that they have had tons of calls and mail over this voicing disapproval.
I explained about how they are now trying to force this sick life style upon us and have it see normal
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the woman was in full agreement and said she found it disgusting what Hallmark had done too
Leaving aside the legal & tax aspects, how is two men or two women shacking up and exchanging vows and rings “forcing” anything upon you? How is it “illegal?” What difference does it make to YOU whether it’s “normal” or “natural” if the people involved mind their own business?
And how can you possibly claim that Hallmark is “ignoring” the opposite-sex wedding card market?
the only legit reason to boycott Hallmark!
Thanks upchuck!
Trust me. No one is ignoring the heterosexual wedding market.
Here's the question: odds are pretty good one of my grad school colleagues will have a homosexual wedding at some point. If he were to invite me to the wedding, what should I do? Ignore him? A card saying "I wish you the best" is probably not a bad choice.
Call Hallmark, say you are a Muslim and they offend you.One phone call and they'll be yanked from the shelves faster than tainted beef.
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