I will not longer sell Sam Adams at my bar.
Good grief, why in hell do they have to bring their politics into a simple parade? It’s not about homosexuality, it’s about St. Patrick! They have their own Pride Parade, let them march there!
No more Sodom Adams for me.
Ironically, the former mayor of Portland Oregon is named Sam Adams - a homo that groomed a 17-year-old into that perversion and had sex with him two weeks after he turned 18. This was right before the election and he still won the mayorship. Oh, and he lied about it until after the election.
GAY RIGHTS!?! IN MASSACHUSETTS!?!/s
No beer is that important.
Perhaps Sam Adams is the beer preferred by the homosexual crowd, so there will be no change in their sales and consumption.
There are many other brands of beer as good as, or better, than Sam Adams. I found it a little pricey for an ordinary beer. I cannot quit because I never started after the first taste test. Good luck to them!
I have my case of Guinness already cooled down. No more Sam Adams for me. I’m starting to think I live in a forced re-education camp. This is no longer American.
The real Sam Adams would be rolling over in his grave.
I don’t drink much beer any more but there will not be any Sam Adams in the mix when I do.
This whole thing is so weird! And The Guardian is covering what should be merely a local Boston story? BTW, the LGBT (or "Giblets," as someone called them) petitioned for a group of 20 gay veterans to march. Turns out, there was only one veteran (purported veteran?) in the group; the other 19 were "gay activists," who wanted to march with rainbow flags and who knows what else. The Allied War Veterns took offense at being lied to, and broke off negotiations.
I don't know why this is all started up again. In the early 90s, there was a big, long battle over this, and the gays sued, and continually won in Massachusetts courts ('nuff said). I believe it was the year the MA Supreme Judicial Court (doesn't that sound like something out of 1984?) found in favor of the gays that the parade organizers cancelled the parade rather than give in. They carried it to the Supreme Court, and in 1995 won a 9-0 opinion (yes, even Bader and Breyer, etc.) that the organizers had the right to decide who would be invited/allowed to march.
Why it's coming up again after almost 20 years, I don't really know. I'm wondering if it's at the urging of Boston's new mayor, Marty Walsh, who hasn't been in long, but who's already making even "Mumbles" Menino (Boston's mayor for 20 years) look almost sane. Menino never marched in the parade (and did march in the June "Gay Pride" parade). Nobody misse him. Why Marty Walsh thinks anyone cares if he doesn't march is, well, just one of life's litte mysteries!
One can only conclude that gay groups make a lot of political contributions . . .
I ran a big marketing group once. I’ll never understand these people getting involved in something that could hurt sales. You don’t put emotions ahead of profit! Sounds cold, but that is rule number one. In this case to risk sales to millions of customers because of a 5% demographic is marketing insanity. They should just “shut up and brew!”
I’ll never understand any business that seeks a global clientele, or entertainers seeking global audiences, taking a public stand on these stupid minority issues.
They only succeed to tick off 50% of their potential revenue source, (in this case, 97%), forever. Seems like a bad business decision.
They just pulled their queer beer right out of my life, too. And I’ll be sure to mention it wherever I see their queer tapper: “Ya like pulling that queer beer? Has good head, eh?”
No REAL man is going to want to be associated with ‘queer beer’...”I always thought so and so was straight, but there he is tugging on a Sam Adams...who knew?”
amazing how companies will go this route even after the whole JC Penny fiasco.
Is Sam Adams even popular among gays?
oh well...adios to another decent product
