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General Mills boycott urged over marriage amendment stance
pioneer press ^ | 6-27-12 | julie forster

Posted on 06/27/2012 5:15:55 AM PDT by TurboZamboni

Earlier this month General Mills came out in opposition to Minnesota's marriage amendment ballot measure. Now supporters of the proposed amendment have launched a boycott of General Mills, imploring consumers to dump their Cheerios, Yoplait, and the myriad other products the Golden Valley manufacturer makes and markets.

The National Organization for Marriage said Tuesday, June 26, that it is initiating a protest of General Mills and has launched a website with an online petition in response to General Mills taking a public position on the amendment, which seeks to preserve Minnesota law that defines marriage as the union of a man and a woman.

(Excerpt) Read more at twincities.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Politics/Elections; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: corporations; dayton; gay; gaymarriage; generalmills; homosexual; homosexualagenda; marriage; mn
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I guess the left is OK with the Citizens United decision after all.
1 posted on 06/27/2012 5:16:04 AM PDT by TurboZamboni
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I sent e-mail to General Mills some days ago asking WHY I
should not remove every product of theirs from my house.
would feed the birds —but am afraid I might be charged with animal cruelty. Were it not for a very small remnant we would all be made to be like Sodom and like unto Gomorrah.As it is written.


2 posted on 06/27/2012 5:22:19 AM PDT by StonyBurk (ring)
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I don't yet think conservatives realize that we've lost this and other such arguments. There's nothing left but the crying.

You can add Nabisco, Target, JCPenny, Disney, P&G and a hundred other such companies to the boycott list. These companies know that these so-called boycotts don't amount to a thing. If you boycotted them all you'd be living in a cave eating berries and wearing fig leaves. They know they can and will survive because the boycotts are represented to the general public as the realm of the "far right". When there is a boycott of Rush, it is carried as being mainstream and inline with the popular view. None of these companies would EVER come out against gay marriage despite the fact that most people oppose it. The liberals have learned from history. When you control the message, a small minority can control the whole country. We'll win some elections and lose some elections, but that is not where these battles are fought. Until we realize we're fighting in the wrong battlefield, gay marriage is just another domino to fall. There are more to come.

3 posted on 06/27/2012 5:36:18 AM PDT by paul544
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To: TurboZamboni; ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas; stephenjohnbanker; DoughtyOne; Gilbo_3; NFHale; Impy; ...

This sounds worth a shot, Dems have organized to launch boycotts of companies that donate to causes they disagree with, as well as Glenn Beck and Rush. Our side needs to give it a try.


4 posted on 06/27/2012 5:37:46 AM PDT by sickoflibs (Romney is a liberal. Just watch him closely try to screw us.)
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Basically every company is obviously going to be gay friendly....we have seen it here numerous times. We are living in not only a very dangerous time but a very sad time. Boycotts don’t work apprently but if you end up having to eat only foods out of your garden to survive these times, your time in Heaven will be 100 percent worth it.


5 posted on 06/27/2012 5:38:35 AM PDT by napscoordinator
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I wonder how the Christians who vote democrat will explain to Jesus their support, sometimes vociferously, of democrat politicians.

I know I’ll have lots to answer for too but this one is so blatantly obvious.


6 posted on 06/27/2012 5:41:17 AM PDT by Josa
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To: Josa
How will those who chose to vote for the lesser of 2 evils say to our Lord, when they stand before GOD to be judged?

Since when did 2 evils make a good? Twins in thinking, signing legislation, etc. Trading one d socialist for an r socialist does not compute.

When bad seed is sowed on bad soil it produces a bad crop. For all those who complain of Snowe, Graham, Collins and the former Specter this is what you will get if you go ahead and drink the GOP koolaide

Ecc12:13-14
13) Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this [is] the whole [duty] of man.
14)For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether [it be] good, or whether [it be] evil.

7 posted on 06/27/2012 5:51:40 AM PDT by GailA (IF U don't/won't keep your promises to the Military, U won't keep them to the public)
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To: GailA

Maybe you could rewrite your post in English?


8 posted on 06/27/2012 5:56:05 AM PDT by agere_contra
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To: TurboZamboni

I have already started avoiding General Mills products at the grocery store.

Screw ‘em. If they love sodomy, they can have it. I won’t participate.


9 posted on 06/27/2012 5:56:36 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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I don't yet think conservatives realize that we've lost this and other such arguments. There's nothing left but the crying.

That was a revolting display of pathetic defeatism. Man up.

10 posted on 06/27/2012 6:03:10 AM PDT by agere_contra
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So I guess I’ll be dumping my general mills stock


11 posted on 06/27/2012 6:33:48 AM PDT by subterfuge (BUILD MORE NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS NOW!!!)
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Johnson & Johnson and Walgreens have teamed up with PFLAG to indoctrinate school kids using bulling as a cover.

http://community.pflag.org/Page.aspx?pid=194&srcid=-2

12 posted on 06/27/2012 6:48:25 AM PDT by MCF
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To: sickoflibs
Dems have organized to launch boycotts of companies that donate to causes they disagree with, as well as Glenn Beck and Rush

In my view, those haven't worked worth a darn.

And I doubt any boycott that is launched on FR would either.

13 posted on 06/27/2012 6:51:56 AM PDT by nascarnation
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To: paul544

Your posts sum this up very well.

A number of years ago I started compiling a list of the retail stores that were “off limits” per FReeper comments.

After a short while, we were left with the St. Vincent de Paul Thrift Shops as the only acceptable one left.

Then someone posted an anti-Catholic screed and we were out of options completely.


14 posted on 06/27/2012 6:54:45 AM PDT by nascarnation
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RE:”Dems have organized to launch boycotts of companies that donate to causes they disagree with, as well as Glenn Beck and Rush.....
In my view, those haven't worked worth a darn.

FNC fired Beck and replaced him with the Dana Per-RINO show and Democrats celebrated their victory. Rush is big enough to survive losing sponsors.

15 posted on 06/27/2012 7:02:08 AM PDT by sickoflibs (Romney is a liberal. Just watch him closely try to screw us.)
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Boycotts work if we pick one company at a time and concentrate on it till it goes bankrupt or changes its policy. JCPenny is very vunerable and Walgreens can be hurt.
16 posted on 06/27/2012 7:02:42 AM PDT by MCF
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I heard Beck was laughing all the way to the bank with his new deal. Isn’t that true?


17 posted on 06/27/2012 7:03:41 AM PDT by nascarnation
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To: paul544

Rush said as much about 2 or 3 years ago regarding homsexual marrage.


18 posted on 06/27/2012 7:12:53 AM PDT by Balding_Eagle (Liberals, at their core, are aggressive & dangerous to everyone around them,)
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To: TurboZamboni

I left General Mills year ago over their support of Planned Parenthood.


19 posted on 06/27/2012 7:38:41 AM PDT by rbbeachkid (Get out of its way and small business can fix the economy.)
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To: TurboZamboni
Gays are what, about two percent of the population? This is just mind-boggling. Why can't companies be neutral? Or, if pressed for their opinion, just say, "We're in the business of providing nutritional, delicious foods at a good price to all Americans. That's all we're going to do. We'll leave the controversial issues to be discussed or decided by others." Instead they cater to the two percent and tick off so many millions more!

Seems to me there can't be much time left before the Lord comes. I mean, how bad do things have to get down here?

20 posted on 06/27/2012 8:12:10 AM PDT by Nea Wood (When life gets too hard to stand, kneel.)
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