Posted on 09/23/2008 4:42:50 AM PDT by TheAverageGuy
OK....I don’t buy from them anyway.
....but my grocery stores have homosexual marriage cards\.
My drug stores have homosexual marriage cards.
....and I gotta shop SOMEWHERE.
It’s interesting to see the different views concerning your post. I have to say, that although I do not support gay marriage, I do not have a problem with Hallmark. This is a marketing idea for their business, and from their point of view probably a smart one.
Also, I do not think the problem is with Hallmark. And even if they stopped making the cards, it will not change the issue which we are dealing with.
But pedophilia and polygamy aren’t legal in parts of this country.
I also cringe anytime our side compares gay marriage beastiality, pedophilia, etc...its not exactly a great comparison and it only marginalizes our cause.
“My boycott will consist of not buying the gay cards. The rest I will continue to buy.
If Hallmark thinks there is a market for this, more power to them.”
Ditto
There is a huge difference between those issues, one is legal (homosexual relationship between two adults), and the other is horribly abusive and will never be legal.
Now, in a free country, people are free to have any kind of relationship that is legal. But what is the entire basis of government involvement in marriage in the first place?
It it primarily to enforce taxation! When you tax income, and tax inheritance, not to mention allow fringe benefits, and give exemptions based on marital status, government must define who is “married” and who is not. At first, that definition was made based on Judeo-Christian values. Now it is being used in part to destroy those values.
Replacing the present Death Tax and Income Tax with the Fair Tax greatly erodes the main basis for gay “marriage”. Yet another good reason for the Fair Tax!
It is just time for government to get out of the marriage business entirely. Allow people to freely state who their heirs are, who makes medical decisions for them, who enjoys the right to share their property and get out of these private matters entirely. It is just not government's business, except we have allowed it to be. What we have slowly done over the past generations can be undone if we would just demand it for the sake of our own liberty.
Who would have thought that using government to protect marriage has now been turned on its head. But government is only power, and now its power is being used to destroy liberty.
Thats what makes it great...each to their own opinion.
With the price of greeting cards rising to $2.75-$3.95, it is getting to the price point where you can design your OWN card and go to a copy store and get a nice color printed card made especially for your loved one without funding corporate socialist agendas.
What next “so your husband cheated on you” or “so you got caught” condolence cards?
You obviously need to read up on the Sex Positve agenda as espoused by feminists, Kinsey, and Reich. The goal is to end all moral judgements against all sexual pairings regardless of sex, age, relation, marital status, number, or species of partner(s). They oppose abstinence because they believe it to be an unhealthy supression of sexual desires.
The homosexual agenda has just been a battering ram to society’s laws and mores. Slippery slope here we come.
When the Lawrence v. Texas decision came down from the Supreme Court, we were assured that it was about consenting ADULTS in PRIVATE but we’ve seen it also expanded to include the homosexual actions of minors and to include the promotion of homosexuality as normal in schools and now the expansion to same sex marriage and adoption.
Doesn’t Hallmark own some “Christian” greeting card companies?
The greetings cards industry is constantly seeking to expand their markets by producing more and more cards for more and more occasions. Is that wrong? That depends on whether you believe that by doing that Hallmark is “pushing” society in a particular direction, OR they are just “reflecting” what is already going on. To a certain extent, they are doing both. They wouldn’t produce these cards unless they thought there was a potential market for them, but on the other hand, the fact that they are doing it “normalises” the behaviour itself.
Perhaps there is a market for “so your husband cheated on you” or “so you got caught” condolence cards. Neither situation is uncommon these days. However, the fact that they are is a sad comment on modern day society, not Hallmark’s business plan.
Most people I know just print out cards on their home printers. I haven't bought a card in years.
Uh, last time I looked neither was homosexual marriage except in 2 states.
So it IS illegal in 46 states with civil unions approved in NJ and Vermont.
Hey...buy their cards if you will and close your eyes to the disease that is homosexuality.
Can’t wait for the Hallmark cards for the blind, lame, and crippled. [HeyCongratulations on your NEW WHEELCHAIR!]
I agree with all of that but I refuse to enrich those who seek to promote, accept or condone homosexuality in any way shape or form.
It is a disease. it is a deformity. It is like praising people with cleft pallets,club feet or schizophrenia. You do not hate them, you do not punish them.
But you do not pretend they are the same as everyone else either.
Nice thought, but you have to have a LOT of people boycott something before the boycott works - basically, they just don’t work.
50% of the population is Left. 50% of the population is Right.
You’re going to need an awful lot of the 50% to do it.
So... basically it isn’t going to help.
I hope you do not think I was being insulting....wasn’t my intention.
Situational cynicism, not personal.
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