Posted on 08/04/2012 7:11:58 AM PDT by scottjewell
UPDATE:> Amway makes no apologies for president Doug DeVos' 'private gift' to anti-gay marriage group
ADA, MI - A leading national gay rights activist announced he is launching on Amway boycott three years after the direct selling giant's president donated $500,000 to a conservative group that has worked to ban gay marriage.
LGBT rights activist Fred Karger says he is officially announcing the boycott of the Ada-based company and other DeVos family businesses including the Orlando Magic basketball team during a press conference this afternoon in Las Vegas.
Karger says he has obtained tax records that show Doug DeVos gave $500,000 to the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) Education Fund through his Douglas & Maria DeVos Foundation.
Karger called the gift "largest family donation to NOM in its history. Only the Catholic Church’s political arm the Knights of Columbus has given more to the ‘Hate Group’ NOM.”
The donation appears to have been made in 2009.
Fueled with large donations from the Catholic and the Mormon churches, the organization campaigned for Proposition 8 in California, a constitutional amendment to prohibit same sex marriage. The organizations supports similar efforts in other states.
"With four crucial gay marriage elections coming up on November 6 we feel that an Amway Boycott will send a message to Amway owners and other potential mega-donors that if you plan to give lots of money to anti-LGBT organizations like NOM or directly to the November anti-gay marriage campaigns we may well take action against you,” Karger said in a statement.
Devos? You’re kidding me... :)
“Are we not men? We are DEEEE VO”
It’s good to challenge them with that hypocrisy,
but I’d go further and ask -
“doesn’t that just show your agenda is simply anti-Christian and not pro-homo rights?”
This is the stupidest thing ever, anyone who’s been exposed to Amway at all knows 90% of their products are bought by people in the organization, not sold to outsiders. They get you in, encourage you to replace all those brand you buy at the store, with their stuff, and charge you more for it, and then encourage you to have your friends and family do the same thing.
A general consumer boycott of Amway, by 1% of the population is irrellevant.
Now with all that said, their laundry products do kick ass, or at least used to before they had to take the phosphate out.. not sure how good they are these days, but back in the day they were awesome.
Screw all that, I remember when all they wanted was “THE GOVERNMENT OUT OF THEIR BEDROOMS”
Now they want the GOVERNMENT TO SANCTION WHAT THEY DO IN THEIR BEDROOMS!
Their entire movement is based on lies, why should you think their arguments would be any different?
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