Posted on 09/30/2003 7:48:57 PM PDT by mikemurphy111
I am hoping to get folks to quit shopping at Target because they sell these awful, dirty, FCUK EWE products at Marshall Field's here in Mpls. For any retailer here in the Heartland to spit on the morals and standards that most of us live by is just unbelievable. Target refuses to follow Federated who dropped this line of Degenerate cosmetics and tee shirts and other clothing after a week of protests from God fearing Christians all over the Midwest. Target says No, we will sell what we want. Well, we consumers who don't want our teen age grandchildren wearing FCUK EWE shirts around the neighborhood will Boycott Target.
If so, HAVE AT IT! And may both fight to keep the opportunistic polticians and legislationals and bureaucratrons out of it.
Wal-Mart is the recognized retail leader of importing more Chinese-made goods than any other.
Mr. Robson Walton is in a good place to provide some commentary to the Communists re: human rights/persecution of Christians & Buddhists...but alas, I doubt that is occurring.
Until you get to post #4
Ah, you miss the distinction between text and context. Text: Parents indeed have the role of teaching the text--the followings of Christ. Context: Families provide only one context for minors; the context of Society can either encourage the values imbedded in such teachings, be neutral to them, or militate against them.
Bottom line: You want to live in a culture where every principle to which you hold dear is 100% undermined, politicized & embattled by the school educators, the media, corporate America, etc.? I certainly didn't grow up in such a culture.
Parents already have enough debriefing to do re: teens & pre-teens' peers; school content; media content, etc. w/out adding Corporate America to the mainstream list of cultural "change agents."
Can't we have some demilitarized zones within our culture whereby some entities attempt to be neutral? Now that's obviously wishful thinking when you are looking at some cultural power centers as a whole...yet I would say that 90%+ of all corporations/companies do manage to remain relatively free of riding an intentional unholy cultural agenda.
Also, why the either/or false dichotomy? Deuteronomy 6 clearly shows the parental responsibility of fulfilling what you have claimed. But aside from neglecting the church's responsibility (thereby undermining your argument that this is for "parents only"), you've also neglected the culture, which is like trying to say that lil' guppies swim about only in the conclaves of their parental sanctuaries...
Truth is, fish swim about in water ...and water can be polluted or kept pure from many sources...it doesn't do any good for Papa Fin Fishgill to keep his lil' guppy safe from predators with proper fish protection doctrine if polluted water sources are threatening the environment they live in.
Maybe these'll will go the way of the homosexual greeting cards the Dayton-Hudson owned department stores were experimenting with back in the 90s.
Dayton-Hudson: One of the top promoters of the gay agenda in the public workplace...not to mention a long-time $ supporter of Planned Parenthood.
Yes...But...
Yes: trials, temptations, testings are an important dimension of the Christian life. It develops our character--or shows weaknesses there that need correction & empowerment to overcome.
But...: Jesus didn't exactly pacify those through whom temptations come: "But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a large millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea." (Matthew 18:6)
These t-shirts are only one flow of moral pollution among countless streams. The bottom line, tho, is that they all add up to desensitizing boys/men to the real value of women...
I saw this last night in the 3 minutes I watched 8 Simple Rules on ABC...they had the entire class laughing off the teaching of abstinence as though it were an ancient myth.
If you lived in Sodom & Gomorrah, it didn't do any good to live in a righteous household when that righteous household was under threat of rape. So, tell me, what good does it do to rely on the doctrine of "If you don't like it, don't buy it" if you have rapists in your neighborhood fueled by many streams of moral pollution? Oh sure, your daughter may be protected from wearing such t-shirts, but not by the perps whom you ne'er raised any objection to what was being fed them by the companies you invested in.
Frankly, I have a problem with the kind of folks who conclude, "Don't like abortion?--don't get one." Those folks miss out on the corporate community consequences of murder (Deut. 21:1-9; Eze. 9:1-8; Numbers 35:33; Isaiah 26:21). As they say, if you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem.
I, for one, won't boycott Target. They are finally offering real competition to the local Kroeger affiliate which has been price gouging out town on milk prices since before I moved here. The local Target has milk at about $2.00 a gallon (plus or minus a little depending on fat content) just like stores in bigger markets nearby rather than the $3.00 plus per gallon the local Kroeger affiliate (Dillons) charges.
* cough cough *
Well, since I hadn't read post 77 and today is the first time I have heard this...I don't think you can blame me for my previous stance. If this is now true, I will definitely re-evaluate my stance towards Target. I guess we can't all be as smart as you obviously think you are.
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