Yes. Next question.
RESPONSE FROM THE GENERAL MANAGER OF THE AMERICAN FAMILY RADIO NETWORK
Buster Wilson
TITLE:
Respectfully, I Believe Dr. Moore Is Just Wrong About Boycotts
EXCERPT:
Moore accuses Christians who would participate in a boycott of Starbucks as, “exposing…our worst tendencies..”, and of, “fighting like the devil to please the Lord.” I suggest that Dr. Moore feels this way because he does not understand the total motivation for doing a boycott.
A boycott, in Dr. Moore’s understanding, is nothing more than a battle of economic power. He sees using the tool of a boycott as a way of simply hurting the company economically as a method of bullying them into adopting “our” view. If we can muscle them with enough economic power to force them to stop what they’re doing, that makes us the majority. So we are forcing them to adopt our “majority” view. That’s his first mistake. He says that, “a boycott assumes that the rightness of a marriage definition is constituted by a majority with power….”, since we are hammering that point away as the only right way to believe by our attempt to hurt them by our place in the “supposed” majority with economic power.
I will concede that if we were to boycott, we would be using the tool of economic strength to make a point. But not the point that Dr. Moore says we are trying to make.
I see a greater good that is done toward the members of the Christian community through the information and execution of a boycott. And that greater good is far more desirable than “hurting the company.” As a Christian, I shouldn’t have the desire to “hurt (a) company” with a boycott or anything else. As a follower of God’s Word, I am to do good to those who despise me and I’m to love my enemies. A desire to simply “hurt” a company would be undesirable as a Christian.
However, I see the greater good as informing Christian consumers about trying to do something better with their economic “power” than to enable a company with the power to accomplish something that we Christians would disagree with.
We all lament the distasteful and sometimes even ungodly way our tax dollars are spent. None of us would want our tax dollars to be used to pay for abortions. But what can you do about tax appropriation other than use the fear of the ballot box to either elect someone else or motivate currently elected officials to do differently? But that is exactly what we do and how we do it. And it is right to do so! That’s the same kind of “muscle” in a boycott.
A boycott gives the consumer the personal power they could never exercise with their taxes; the ability to control the influence of their financial power!
If I am a believer in the biblical definition and symbolism of traditional/natural marriage, then I don’t want any of my money to help pay for the promotion and legalization of same-sex marriage! IF a company is using their profits from retail sales to promote an ungodly ideal, then it is a great benefit to me to know about it! Why? So I can give my financial resources to someone else who won’t use my dollars to promote and support ungodly causes!
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Why not just let people make their own, individual decisions instead of telling people what to do?
No we should just sit quietly and seek only to please our liberal masters.
good grief
Absolutely they should.
For me it is not a question as there are none anywhere near and the price would have kept me away anyway.
I don’t go there any more for coffee.
Yup, already have.
Shove it, bucks....you evidently like that sort of thing anyway.
As I skimmed over the words to avoid reading the article, I’m simply reminded that Starbucks has terrible coffee. That is enough to cause me to avoid it.
How is JC Penny doing these days?
I don’t even drink coffee. But why send your enemies money?
Yep. I boycott everything and everyone who aids and abets the take-down of this country.
I don’t go to Starbucks anyway. Overpriced weak coffee.
Gentile tactics?
I went to one of his websites and cannot believe anything negative of him but I still wonder where "Gentile tactics" came from.
Lording it over others (SUCH an appropriate expression) is TRULY a human trait. Don't you think?
Am I wrong?
If STBX is serious, I want them to remove all their shops from Turkey, France, Germany, Russian, all of Central and South America. India, Italy, China, South Korea......plus all the other countries they are in who openly oppose “so called homosexual marriage” or stop bic#ing about the USA.
I dunno about Starbucks, but if they don’t want me as a customer, fine. I just had a cup of Caribou coffee anyway.
“Boycott” implies that you have been patronizing them, stopped for political/policy effect and then would go back if they changed course.
I would argue that any Christian who is paying attention would either have not patronized them at any time or would have already stopped by now and will not patronize or go back ever.
boycott: no
stay away from forever: yes
Don’t know any capital “C” Christians that patronize Starbucks in the first place.
I guess I already do, bought one of their coffees once, didn’t like it, and never went back.
I already boycott them because I brew my own coffee, which is actually drinkable because I don’t used burned coffee beans, and costs $.04 to brew per cup instead of paying $4.00 for what is the worst coffee available on the market.
...another in a long line of lukewarm 21st Century ‘pastors’...
Sorry. Dr. Moore. I'll multitask. Why can't you?