[Fight PFLAG - put $5 in the Red Kettle] 'Kettle Protest' Against Salvation Army Backfiring

CNSNews.com ^ | 11-28-01

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'Kettle Protest' Against Salvation Army Backfiring -- 11/28/2001 'Kettle Protest' Against Salvation Army Backfiring By Matt Pyeatt CNSNews.com Staff Writer November 28, 2001 (CNSNews.com) - The effort by a homosexual group to drop "phony $5 bills" into Salvation Army kettles this holiday season continues to backfire. Another pro-family group has pledged to redeem the phony bills with real cash. The American Family Association (AFA) of Michigan Monday announced it would donate up to $1,000 to redeem the fake five-dollar bills placed in Salvation Army kettles by members of the group, Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians & Gays (PFLAG). Tuesday, Citizens for Community Values (CCV), a Cincinnati organization, said it too would redeem the fake cash. "We are trying to encourage people with the truth and then encourage them to support the Salvation Army," David Miller, Vice President of CCV, said. "Then when we saw what [AFA-Michigan] was doing, we said, 'we can do the same thing right here and let's try to help and encourage Salvation Army in any way that we can.'" PFLAG has called for a nationwide "kettle protest" by its 470 affiliates. Mary Scholl, the organization's president, is the mother of a homosexual man, and says the protest is intended to let the Salvation Army know that its policies against homosexuality are "hurtful to our loved ones." "I do not believe that the love and sexual expression my son and his partner have for each other or any of my friends is any less natural and beautiful than my relationship with my husband," Scholl said. Miller believes the PFLAG protest is going to "backfire on them and they are going to realize that it wasn't the greatest idea to try to hurt the Salvation Army and punish them. "They are actually helping the Army by putting in these phony fives," Miller said. Miller said no limit would be set on how much money his group would donate to the Salvation Army. "We are going to work with what we think we can put in as well as what we think we can ask others to help us with," Miller said. The Salvation Army recently rescinded a decision that would have allowed domestic partner benefits for its Western Territory employees. As a result, Army employees are prohibited from including domestic partners, some of whom are homosexual, on their health care insurance plans. See Earlier Story: Homosexual Group Uses Fake Cash to Protest Salvation Army

[WarHawk42]

From your comments, it looks as if the libertarians are as anti-American and anti-traditional values as the lefties.

Making assumptions is a dangerous thing, something we are all guilty of from time to time.:)  Labels are a lazy way to try and paint someone in a certain light but they are too broad based to be of any value.  I am not or have I ever been a libertarian but I certainly don't see them as being anti-American or in most respects anti traditional.  I don't agree with them on all points however.  In fact on some very important points I disagree with them and could never be a libertarian.

You did your duty however.  You managed to get your little dig in on the libertarian party.  Collect your bonus points and be happy.

WarHawk42

[WarHawk42]

Your battle scars are showing, but it seems to me that given your age, your wisdom is lacking. Just an observation.

I prefer battle scars fighting for freedom rather than the scars from the masters whip.

WarHawk42

[WarHawk42]

Giving to charity is an OPTION. It is from the heart. Welfare is another story. Are the two getting confused?

Yes they are being confused.  If I forcibly took your money and give it to a charity would that be charity?  Not by you it wouldn't and it wouldn't be by me either.  It wasn't my money to give.  That is what the "faith based charity" scheme is.  I bet you have problems with the government "welfare" programs as you should.  I bet you have even complained about "corporate" welfare.  How is this any different?

The idea of faith-based charities from Bush is to not EXCLUDE them because they are associated with "faith," ie, religion, ie, something that works more often than the atheistic systems we are forced to contribute to through tax dollars.

We should be eliminating those we are already giving to not adding more to the public feeding trough.  That is the whole point.

Bush's idea is to change the whole mindset, IMHO.

Bush's idea simply adds more feeding on the federal teat.

WarHawk42

[WarHawk42]

Aw go F**K yourself. Who needs your piddlin donation anyway.

How eloquent, I'm speachless...........NOT.LOL

WarHawk42

[Irma]

No help from me for the Salvation army. Not anymore. I might give them a phoney five dollar bill with bush's picture on it. They supported bush and his unconstitutional faith based charity scheme.

Hi War....LTNS!

All I can say is good thing Gore didn't win......we'd all be stealing from the kettle!
;-)

BTW, when I saw this thread the other day, I thought you were gonna finally come clean!

LOL

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PFLAG activists also stirring up trouble in Detroit. Just saw a local CBS news (channel 62) story about PFLAG encouraging people to protest the Salvation Army by tossing notes into the kettle. Sounds like trespassing and harrassment to me. People are invited to drop in money, not notes of protest. Trespass to chattel.