Posted on 09/23/2008 4:42:50 AM PDT by TheAverageGuy
thanks for the heads up
ditto
I was already boycotting Hallmark for giving donations to anti-RKBA organizations. Thanks for giving me another reason! Now maybe I can get my MIL to stop buying their cards.
I have no problem with civil unions.
I won’t boycott because I believe that the company has a right to sell their product, whether or not I agree with it’s message.
Gay wedding cards will be as commercially successful as was the Urban Sombrero.
I agree. Lest we forget, that’s what makes us the USA the USA. I am not forced to buy the product in question.
But I won’t boycott them because I do not agree with something. I hate the “I must be right” mentality on both sides of the aisle.
I’m strongly against the redefinition of marriage too...I think its a disastrous step for our culture to take, but I don’t believe in boycotting businesses either. Hallmark are not “endorsing” homosexual marriage. They are just responding to a gap in the market. Our job is to prove there shouldnt BE such a gap.
Businesses do not force behavior on us - no boycott. I may instead boycott California and Massachusetts.
That’s part of the fun of FR...lots of people like that.
Seriously though, I think that’s one of the reasons our country is so divided...the internet has made it very easy for people that are ‘right’ to join together and drown out those that will admit that there may be other views.
In a bad economy things like greeting cards are one of the first items to get cast aside, nice job narrowing your markets dillweeds.
Well I sure as hell will boycott them.
I don’t understand that reasoning at all.
So if they want to make a card for pedophiles[not that they would right now] or polygamists, thats ok? What the heck...all kinds of room under the big tent. I don’t have to buy THAT one.
Doesn’t work for me but whatever floats your boat.
Hallmark had a large store two blocks away from the WTC- it was in business for over 20 years.
It closed its doors last year due to less customers in the downtown area since 9/11.
Fine, no boycott. Instead, how about a “I will never ever take my hard earned dollars to that business again” stand? I haven’t done business with Hallmark for years. As with others, this just gives me another reason not to in the future.
Meh. Whatever, they’re selling a card to an extremely small segment, if they want to print them WTF do I care.
Hallmark is NOT the reason gay “marriage” exists. What a waste of electrons.
If Hallmark thinks there is a market for this, more power to them.
I am now boycotting McDonald’s and Hallmark. Yes, they have a right to sell what they want, and I have a right not to buy it. In spite of what the popular media tells us, homosexual behavior is a destructive lifestyle. It destroys lives and relationships and contributes to the deterioration of our culture.
As a Christian, I am called to love all men including homosexuals. I count several of them among my friends and acquaintances. I want the best for them and that is why I do not endorse or encourage their self-destructive behavior.
I think they’d make a card for fascist dictators if they thought there was a market for it (Congratulations! You’ve just committed your FIRST genocidal act!)
Banning these cards is not going to stop homosexuals “marrying”. Being convinced of the sinfulness of their lifestyle and allowing their lives to be changed right around is going to stop that. So, if you think homosexual “marriage” is wrong, what do you think you should be doing?
Let me put it like this: If someone insists on saying and doing something that you are sure is wrong, you basically have two choices. You can either out-argue them, or you can shut them up. I know its very tempting to simply “shut them up”. You are very convinced they are in the wrong and are doing harm not only to themselves but to all that you hold dear (as indeed they are). Besides “shutting them up” is SO very much easier to do. And of course, the opposition tries to shut US up all the time.
Lovingly bringing those, who after all are made in Gods image, to a personal knowledge of their sinfulness and their need to rethink their entire lives, in the teeth of what can be vicious opposition, is a hard, thankless task that can take years. Decades even. But IMHO that is what God calls us to do.
You put out fires with water, not fires of your own.
halmark is playing into the “normalization.”
what next:
congratulations on you first crime?
congratulations on the jury finding you not guility?
congratulations on [insert something about farm animals]?
congratulations on cheating on your husband/wife?
congratulations on writing a tasteles SNL skit?
there is a limit and a company should pay the price for it.
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