People with MBAs sure are stupid.
Okay...Penney’s, Target, General Mills, Starbucks...am I missing anyone?
I think it’s amusing that “detestable” big businesses are turning liberal causes into marketing schemes. I support traditional marriage but as a libertarian/conservative, if Target can make a buck of these people, so be it. If they lose a buck because others won’t shop there, so be that too. Let the market decide.
Without doubt, they have definite weak points. As members of an elite, particularly MBA holders from the top-flight schools, they're prone to overestimate the influence of a small minority that's hyped all over the place. They themselves are a small, albeit exclusive, minority. Camille Paglia noted that male homosexuals are aristocratic at heart. What better group o' guys to tickle the vanity of a top-drawer MBA holder?
The guys seem to be forgetting an old truth: "If you want to live in Manhattan, you sell to the Bronx. If you want to live in the Bronx, you sell to Manhattan."
These people know that after a brief spurt of interest everyone will settle back into going along to get along, so they do whatever makes them a buck and gets them free publicity with pats on their little heads from the "in crowd". The way they see it, Americans have so far accepted everything that's been shoved down their throats from kindergarten condoms to contraception and abortion, so any negative effects will be minor and short lived at best. If it's like everything else that's "upset" average folks it'll be over with in time for them to have great Black Friday sales numbers. As with so many things in the past, it'll amount to a month or so of somewhat lower sales after which they'll win back shoppers by tossing them a bone like putting a little cross on the Pilgram in their Thanksgiving Day sales flyer or using "Merry Christmas" in a few ads rather than "Happy Holidays".
The King Barry round table of Christians in Name Only and Cafeteria Catholics expect you to lay down and roll over the same way the majority rolled over and begged for more rather than making it as hard to run an abortion clinic as it would be to run a Jim Crow lunch counter again in Birmingham. Ending Jim Crow was a cause worth being jailed and having mass demonstrations over but ending the ritual murder of millions of infants and the spreading of the queer agenda isn't? No wonder the democrat fascists have run the country for eighty years and get whatever they want; they're obviously far more dedicated to Fascist ideology than Christians are dedicated to living for Christ and having society reflect Christian values.
It's time for Americans to fish or cut bait, especially those who call themselves Christian. Companies either have to pay a large and long term penalty when they defy Christian and traditional American values, or the people who call themselves Christian need to sit down, shut up, and stop pretending they believe in and stand up for Jesus Christ who lowered Himself to the level of a human, then was mocked, tortured, crucified for them.
So how should your children and grandchildren bet, Christians? Should they bet you'll raise enough Hell to roll all of this back or should they bet on another thirty years of those responsible for them burying their heads in the sand and pretending that some band of magicians will just make this all disappear one afternoon?
Better still, maybe they should bet on the 88 reasons why the Great Surrender & Evacuation will happen before 1988 as a way to rationalize sitting on the sidelines and doing nothing.
OK, I got that off my chest.
Sorry for the rant, but Orange Juice sales suffered more and longer for having Anita Bryant as the Growers spokeswoman when the queers were upset than the supporters of mass murder and the queer agenda have ever suffered for forcing their agenda on society even though eighty percent of the population pretends to be Christian.