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’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.
In a bad economy things like greeting cards are one of the first items to get cast aside, nice job narrowing your markets dillweeds.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Doesn’t Hallmark own some “Christian” greeting card companies?
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.