RESPONSE FROM THE GENERAL MANAGER OF THE AMERICAN FAMILY RADIO NETWORK
Buster Wilson
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Respectfully, I Believe Dr. Moore Is Just Wrong About Boycotts
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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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“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!”
ABSOLUTELY!
Re; Posting # 3
Wasn’t there a recent turnover in ownership of AFR American Family Radio ?
I just like to support Christian businesses when I can and I choose not to support those who oppose Christians if I can. I enjoy spending my hard-earned money at places like Chick-Fil-A and Hobby Lobby. I used to love buying Edwards Pies because they had a Bible verse on every box of pie. They would bought out, though. I still buy them but it isn’t the same. I miss the Bible verse.