Graham Calls for Boycott of Pro-Gay Businesses

http://www.cbn.com ^ | June 8, 2015 | CBNNews.com

[NKP_Vet]

Franklin Graham is calling on Christians to boycott businesses that fund and promote the gay activist agenda.

Graham made the comment on Facebook, announcing that his ministry is pulling its accounts from Wells Fargo Bank because they're using a same-sex couple in their ads.

"This is one way we as Christians can speak out," Graham said. "We have the power of choice. Let's just stop doing business with those who promote sin and stand against almighty God's laws and His standards."

Gay activist bloggers are mocking Graham, saying it will be nearly impossible to do what he says because so many businesses now support the gay agenda.

In an earlier Facebook post, Graham called on Christians to pray for Supreme Court justices as they prepare to rule on gay marriage.

Graham said declaring same-sex marriage a constitutional right would be a "wicked, wicked thing," adding, "The only hope we have is prayer."

"Imagine tens and tens and tens of thousands of Americans praying for God to hear their prayers and to change the hearts of these justices," Graham continued. "He might just do that."

[odawg]

“Pick one pro-sodomy business and boycott it. Make it hurt their bottom line. The others will follow suit.”

That was the successful strategy of the auto workers’ union.
Works every time. Take one down, and go down the row. They will get the message.

[Kickass Conservative]

Yes, saw it twice last night on HGTV.

HGTV, where half the folks on House Hunters are Gay.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

[chris37]

[DiogenesLamp]

These men have not sinned against me, they have made me delicious sandwiches is what they have done.

The Nazis made exceptionally fine products too. There were quite a few businesses in this nation that continued to do business with the Nazis even after it became apparent that these people were going to be our enemies.

Ability to produce quality goods is not the sole characteristic for which people should be patronizing businesses. If you are putting money into the pockets of people who are against your long term interests, you are making a mistake.

Many Jews found out that it was a very bad idea to support Nazi candidates for public office, and make no mistake, something very like the Nazis is what we see coming out of the current Gaystapo. In fact, much of the Nazi party was homosexual. It was even founded in a Homosexual bar.

[chris37]

I can only decide how I want to behave. I don’t have control over other to such an extent that I can decide how they behave.

If you decide that you want to boycott a business such as the one I have described, then that is a decision you will have to make.

I would certainly stop patronizing them if they started pushing the gay agenda from their business. That isn’t something I would want to participate in, but they have not done that so far being in business for just over a year now.

As far as nicing ourselves to death... if a person is mean to me, then I may well chose to be mean to them, or I may choose to treat them with kindness. It would depend on which response from me I deem more effective to the situation.

But if a person is kind to me, then I will only respond to them with kindness. These two men have never been anything other than incredibly nice to me, so it isn’t possible for me to respond to them in any other way.

[conservativejoy]

We canceled our Chase Visa.

If I understand correctly, WalMart is also pro gay. If that is so, it will seriously limit us in where we shop, since they put other local stores out of business years ago.

[conservativejoy]

I have no problem with gays who live their lives and don’t have an activist agenda. I do have a problem with Gayhadis who want to dictate to the rest of us and infringe on our right to religious liberty.

[Wpin]

Hmmm, so all you need to know about someone is that they are homosexual and you then decide all else about them must be okay...yet, you imply that anyone else who is not homosexual must be more sinful...now that is some real twisting on God’s word and intent. Congratulations, you have succumbed to satan and his logic.

[chris37]

Thing is I haven’t seen any evidence that these men support things against my interests. My guess is that they support the gay agenda simply because they are gay.

But there is a possibility I could be wrong about that. There are gays who do not support gay marriage.

However, if I decide that I will not patronize or support any person who disagrees with me politically, then I cut myself off from many things I enjoy, especially music from certain artists.

Many or most creative people are left minded, yet I still enjoy the things they create.

People believe all sorts of crazy things, I can’t change the world and make them all agree with me, nor can they do the same to me.

That is very interesting about the Nazi party though. I have always thought of Naziism as the greatest extent of man’s desire to control other men.

And is there any evidence of homosexuals being particularly fond of control? I’d say yes.

[NKP_Vet]

I don’t go near an openly homosexual person around food. Don’t want their filthy hands on anything I eat.

[chris37]

Yeah me too.

I really just try to live and let live, and I hope that others do the same.

Sadly, others often do not.

[Wpin]

One thing we need to understand is that many corporations are “pro-gay” out of fear of persecution...I agree that that should not be acceptable, but we do need to consider what is said and what policies are in place. For example, in the case where Christians are therefore persecuted with the pro homosexual policies, such as in that donation website...we should boycott them. Others, may simply be falling on their sword from fear of the evil ones.

[NKP_Vet]

Walmart sells to anyone, but they dont’ go out of their to promote any cause.

[chris37]

[conservativejoy]

I hired and worked with a gay young man who has been in a partnership for years. He was an excellent worker and left to go into management with another company. I have never had a problem personally with anyone who was gay.

I do have a problem with the Gay Militant Agenda. I don’t think they realize that they actually harm the opinion that others have of gays. If those militants would just get on with their lives, everyone would be better off, including them.

[bgill]

Adding more to the list of businesses that support LGBT:

3M Co. St. Paul, MN

A.1. Steak Sauce

AAA Northern California, Nevada and Utah San Francisco, CA

Abercrombie & Fitch Co. New Albany, OH

Absolut

Accenture Ltd. New York, NY

Aetna Inc. Hartford, CT

Agilent Technologies Inc. Santa Clara, CA

Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld LLP Washington, DC

Alaska Airlines Seattle, WA

Alcatel-Lucent Murray Hill, NJ

Allianz Life Insurance Co. of North America Minneapolis, MN

Allstate Corp., The Northbrook, IL

Alston & Bird LLP Atlanta, GA

Amazon.com

American Airlines

American Apparel

American Express Co. New York, NY

Ameriprise Financial Inc. Minneapolis, MN

AMR Corp. (American Airlines) Fort Worth, TX

Anheuser-Busch Companies Inc. St. Louis, MO

Aon Corp. Chicago, IL

Apple Inc. Cupertino, CA

Applebee’s

Aquapure

Aquarius

Arent Fox LLP Washington, DC

Arnold & Porter LLP Washington, DC

AT&T Inc. San Antonio, TX

Athenos

Bacardi Mixers

Bacardi Premium Mixers

Bain & Co. Inc. (& Bridgespan Group Inc.) Boston, MA

Baker & Daniels LLP Indianapolis, IN

Banana Republic

Bank of America

Bank of New York Mellon Corp., New York, NY

Barnes & Noble Inc. New York, NY

Barq's

Barrilitos

BASF Corp. Florham Park, NJ

Bausch & Lomb Inc. Rochester, NY

Bayer Corp.

Ben & Jerry’s

Best Buy

Beverly

Bingham McCutchen LLP Boston, MA

BMC Software Inc. Houston, TX

Boca Foods

Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals Inc. Ridgefi eld, CT

Boeing Co. Chicago, IL

Borders Group Inc. Ann Arbor, MI

Boston Consulting Group Boston, MA

Boston Scientific - medical supplies

BP America Inc. Houston, TX

BP Oil

Breakstones

Bright And Early

Bright Horizons Family Solutions Inc. Watertown, MA

Brinker International Inc. Dallas, TX

Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. New York, NY

Brown Rudnick LLP Boston, MA

Bryan Cave LLP St. Louis, MO

Bud Light

Burger King

Caffeine-free Barq's

Caffeine-free Coca-Cola

Caffeine-free Diet Coke

Campbell Soup Co. Camden, NJ

Capital One Financial Corp. McLean, VA

CapriSun

Cardinal Health Dublin, OH

Cargill Inc. Wayzata, MN

Carlson Companies Inc. Minnetonka, MN

Carmax Inc. Richmond, VA

Cascal

Charles Schwab Corp., The San Francisco, CA

Cheez whiz

Cherry Coke

Chevron

Chevron Corp. San Ramon, CA

Chippewa

ChoicePoint Inc. Alpharetta, GA

Chrysler LLC Auburn Hills, MI

Chubb Corp. Warren, NJ

Cisco Systems Inc. San Jose, CA

Citi

Citigroup Inc. New York, NY

Citra

Claussen Pickles

Clear Channel Communications Inc. San Antonio, TX

Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton LLP New York, NY

Clifford Chance US LLP New York, NY

Clorox

CNA Insurance Chicago, IL

Coca-Cola - Odwalla

Coca-Cola Black Cherry Vanilla

Coca-Cola Cherry Zero

Coca-Cola Co., The Atlanta, GA

Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc. Atlanta, GA

Coca-Cola Zero

Coca-Cola Zero Caffeine-Free

Constellation Energy Group Inc. Baltimore, MD

Continental Airlines Inc. Houston, TX

Cool Whip

Coors Brewing Co. Denver, CO

Corning Inc. Corning, NY

Costco

Country Time Lemonaid

Covington & Burling LLP Washington, DC

Cox Enterprises - Cox Media Group (msm), Cox Communications (Phoenix fiber internet), Cox Automotive Cox Enterprises Inc./Cox Communications Inc. Atlanta, GA

Cracker Barrel

Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP New York, NY

Credit Suisse USA Inc. New York, NY

Crystal Light

Cumberland Gap

Cummins Inc. Columbus, IN

Dannon

Dasani

Debevoise & Plimpton LLP New York, NY

Delaware Punch

Dell Inc. Round Rock, TX

Deloitte LLP New York, NY

Delta Airlines

Deutsche Bank New York, NY

Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP New York, NY

Diageo - brands include Johnnie Walker, Crown Royal, JεB, Buchanan’s and Windsor whiskies, Smirnoff, Cîroc and Ketel One vodkas, Captain Morgan, Baileys, Don Julio, Tanqueray and Guinness.

Diageo North America Norwalk, CT

Dickstein Shapiro LLP Washington, DC

Diet Barq's

Diet cherry Coke

Diet Coke

Diet Coke Black Cherry Vanilla

Diet Coke with Lime

Diet Coke with Splenda

Diet Fuze Tea

Diet Inca Kola

Diet Master Pour

Diet Northern Neck

Diet Sprite

Diet Sprite Zero

DLA Piper Baltimore, MD

Dorsey & Whitney LLP Minneapolis, MN

Dow Chemical Co. Midland, MI

Dr Pepper

DuPont (E.I. du Pont de Nemours) Wilmington, DE

Eastman Kodak Co. Rochester, NY

eBay Inc. San Jose, CA

Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP Boston, MA

Electronic Arts Inc. Redwood City, CA

Eli Lilly & Co. Indianapolis, IN

Ernst & Young LLP New York, NY

Estee Lauder Companies New York, NY

Esurance Inc. San Francisco, CA

Evian

Expedia

Facebook

Faegre & Benson LLP Minneapolis, MN

Fannie Mae Washington, DC

Fanta

Fanta Sugar Free

Fanta Zero

Five Alive

Flavor Rage

Foley & Lardner LLP Milwaukee, WI

Foley Hoag LLP Boston, MA

Ford Motor Co. Dearborn, MI

Freescale Semiconductor Inc. Austin, TX

Fresca

Fried, Frank, Haris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP New York, NY

Fruitopia

Full Throttle

Fuze

Fuze Tea

GameStop Corp. Grapevine, TX

Gap

Gay Destination Weddings

Genentech Inc. South San Francisco, CA

General Mills

General Motors Corp. Detroit, MI

Gerber Baby Products

Gevalis Kaffe

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP Los Angeles, CA

Glacéau fruitwater

Glacéau smartwater

Glacéau vitaminenergy

Glacéau vitaminwater

Glacéau vitaminwater zero

GlaxoSmithKline plc Philadelphia, PA

Global Hyatt Corp. Chicago, IL

Gold Peak

Goldman Sachs Group Inc., New York, NY

Google Inc. Mountain View, CA

H2OK

Harrah’s Entertainment Inc. Las Vegas, NV

Hartford Financial Services Co. Hartford, CT

Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Inc. Wellesley, MA

Haynes and Boone LLP Dallas, TX

HBO’s True Blood

Heller Ehrman LLP San Francisco, CA

Herman Miller Inc. Zeeland, MI

Hershey's

Hewitt Associates Lincolnshire, IL

Hewlett-Packard Co. Palo Alto, CA

Hi-C

Hilton Hotels

Hoffmann-La Roche Inc. Nutley, NJ

Holland & Knight LLP Miami, FL

Home Depot

Honest Ade

Honest Fizz

Honest Kids

Honest Tea

Honest Tea Zero

Honeywell International Inc. Morristown, NJ

Hospira Inc. Lake Forest, IL

Howrey LLP Washington, DC

HSBC - North America Mettawa, IL

Human Rights Campaign

Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP Kansas City, MO

Hyatt

Illy

Inca Kola

IndyMac Bancorp Inc. Pasadena, CA

ING North America Insurance Corp. Atlanta, GA

Intel Corp. Santa Clara, CA

International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) Armonk, NY

International Group Inc.

Intuit Inc. Mountain View, CA

J.C. Penney Co. Inc. Plano, TX

J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. New York, NY

Java Monster

JC Penney

Jell-O

Jenner & Block LLP Chicago, IL

Jericho

Jet Blue

Jet-Puffed

Johnson & Johnson New Brunswick, NJ

JP Morgan Chase & Co

Kaiser Permanente Oakland, CA

Kenneth Cole - shoes

KeyCorp Cleveland, OH

Kimberly-Clark Corp. Irving, TX

Kimpton Hotel & Restaurant Group Inc. San Francisco, CA

Kinley

Kirkland & Ellis LLP Chicago, IL

Kool-Aid

KPMG LLP New York, NY

Kraft Foods

Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP New York, NY

Krest

Latham & Watkins LLP New York, NY

Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. New York, NY

Levi Strauss & Co. San Francisco, CA

Lexmark International Inc. Lexington, KY

Lexus

Lift

Lincoln Financial Group

Littler Mendelson PC San Francisco, CA

Liz Claiborne Inc. New York, NY

Lockheed Martin Corp. Bethesda, MD

Los Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority

Lunchables

Macy’s Inc. Cincinnati, OH

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP Los Angeles, CA

Marc Jacobs - apparel and accessories

Marriott International Inc.

Marsh & McLennan Companies Inc. New York, NY

Martha Stewart

Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. Springfield, MA

Master Card

Master Chill

Master Pour

MasterCard Inc. Purchase, NY

Maxwell House

McDermott Will & Emery LLP Chicago, IL

McDonald’s

McKinsey & Co. Inc. New York, NY

Mello Yello

Mello Yello Zero

Merck & Co. Inc. Whitehouse Station, NJ

Merrill Lynch & Co. New York, NY

MetLife

Mezzo Mix

MGM Resorts International

Microsoft

Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo PC Boston, MA

Minute Maid

Minute Maid Enhanced

Minute Maid Fruit Falls

Minute Maid Juices To Go

Minute Maid Light

Minute Maid Orchards

Mio

Miracle Whip

Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams - home décor

Mondelez International - Oreos

Monster

Moody’s Investors Service

Morgan Stanley

Morrison & Foerster LLP San Francisco, CA

Motorola Inc. Schaumburg, IL

National Grid USA Brooklyn, NY

Nationwide Insurance

NCR Corp. Dayton, OH

Nestle

New York Life Insurance Co. New York, NY

New York Times Co. New York, NY

Newell Rubbermaid Inc. Atlanta, GA

Nielsen Co., The Schaumburg, IL

Nike

Nixon Peabody LLP New York, NY

Nordstrom Inc.

Northern Neck

Northern Trust Corp. Chicago, IL

Northrop Grumman - global security company providing innovative systems, products and solutions in unmanned systems, cyber, C4ISR, and logistics and modernization to government and commercial customers.

NOS

Novartis Pharmaceutical Corp. East Hanover, NJ

O’Melveny & Myers LLP Washington, DC

Odwalla

Olive Garden

Oracle Corp. Redwood City, CA

Orbitz Worldwide Inc. Chicago, IL

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP San Francisco, CA

Oscar Mayer

Owens Corning Toledo, OH

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP New York, NY

Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP Los Angeles, CA

Paula Deen

Peace Tea

Pepe Rico

Pepsi - Naked Juice

Pepsi Bottling Group Inc., The Somers, NY

PepsiCo – also funds abortions

PepsiCo Inc. Purchase, NY

Perkins Coie Seattle, WA

Pfizer

Pfizer Inc. New York, NY

PG&E Corp. San Francisco, CA

Philadelphia Cream Cheese

Pibb Xtra

Pibb Zero

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP San Francisco, CA

Planters Nuts

Polly-O Cheese

Powell Goldstein LLP Atlanta, GA

Powerade

Powerade Play

Powerade Zero

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP New York, NY

Proctor & Gamble

Progressive Corp., The Mayfield Village, OH

Proskauer Rose LLP New York, NY

Prudential Insurance

Purina PetCare Co. and Omnicom Group

Raymond James Financial Inc. St. Petersburg, FL

Raytheon Co. Waltham, MA

Recreational Equipment Inc. Kent, WA

Red Flash

Red Lobster

Replacements Ltd. McLeansville, NC - silverware and china

Reynolds American Inc. Winston-Salem, NC

Rite Aid

Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi LLP Minneapolis, MN

Ropes & Gray LLP Boston, MA

S. C. Johnson & Son Inc. Racine, WI

Sabre Holdings Inc. Southlake, TX

Sandos Hotels and Resorts

Schering-Plough Corp. Kenilworth, NJ

Schweppes

Sears

Sears Holdings Corp. Hoffman Estates, IL

Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold LLP San Francisco, CA

Sempra Energy San Diego, CA

Seyfarth Shaw LLP Chicago, IL

Shell Oil

Sidley Austin LLP Chicago, IL

Simply

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP New York, NY

Smirnoff’s

Sodexho Inc. Gaithersburg, MD

Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal LLP Chicago, IL

Southern California Edison Co. Rosemead, CA

Southern Sun

Southwest Airlines

Spring!

Sprint Nextel Corp. Overland Park, KS

Sprite

Sprite Zero

Squire, Sanders & Dempsey LLP Cleveland, OH

Starbucks

Starcom MediaVest Group Chicago, IL

Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide White Plains, NY

State Farm

State Street Corp. Boston, MA

Stove Top

Subaru of America Inc. Cherry Hill, NJ

Sugar Free Full Throttle

Sugar Free NOS

Sugar Free Sprite

Sullivan & Cromwell LLP New York, NY

Sun Life Financial Inc. (U.S.) Wellesley Hills, MA

Sun Microsystems Inc. Santa Clara, CA

Sunfill

SunTrust Banks Inc. Atlanta, GA

Supervalu Inc. Eden Prairie, MN

Surge

Symantec

Symantec Corp. Cupertino, CA

TaB

Target

Target Corp. Minneapolis, MN

Tassimo coffee

TD Bank

Tech Data Corp. Clearwater, FL

Texas Instruments Inc. Dallas, TX

Thompson Coburn LLP St. Louis, MO

Time Warner Inc. New York, NY

TJX Companies, Inc., The Framingham, MA

Toyota Financial Services Corp. Torrance, CA

Toyota Motor Sales USA Inc. Torrance, CA

Travelport Inc. Parsippany, NJ

Troutman Sanders LLP Atlanta, GA

Tylenol

U.S. Bancorp Minneapolis, MN

UBS - banking

UBS AG Stamford, CT

Unilever Englewood Cliffs, NJ

United Airlines

United Business Media LLC Manhasset, NY

United Parcel Service Inc. (UPS) Atlanta, GA

UPS

US Airways Group Inc. Tempe, AZ

Vanilla Coke

Vanilla Coke Zero

Vault

Vault Zero

Vegibeta

Vegitabeta

Velveeta

Viacom Inc. New York, NY

Vinson & Elkins LLP Houston, TX

Visa Foster City, CA 3

Visteon Corp. Van Buren Township, MI

Volkswagen of America Inc. Herndon, VA

VPI Pet Insurance

W Hotels Worldwide

Wachovia Corp. Charlotte, NC

Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz LLP New York, NY

Walgreen Co. Deerfield, IL

Walgreens

Walt Disney

Washington Mutual Inc. Seattle, WA

Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP New York, NY

Wells Fargo & Co. San Francisco, CA

Whirlpool

White & Case LLP New York, NY 1

Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr LLP Washington, DC

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC Palo Alto, CA

Winston & Strawn LLP Chicago, IL

Worx Energy

Wyndham Worldwide Corp. Parsippany, NJ

Xerox Corp. Norwalk, CT

Yahoo! Inc. Sunnyvale, CA

Zico

[chris37]

Yeah the militants are a real problem, and I also think that they do harm to gays by lowering the opinion of others, inciting ire and such.

If a person is nice to me, and I am nice to them. if a person let’s me be, I let them be.

Not everyone is like that though, some people can’t leave well enough alone, and that makes them a problem.

[IrishBrigade]

Their business isn’t a sin, and furthermore it is not my duty to punish sin in this world.

Fair enough...for me, the determining factor would be how over the top they were in their proclivities...for instance, you say it’s obvious they are gay; I would think that comment needs to be fleshed out a bit more. Obvious how? do they flaunt it? If so, no business with them would be my stance..but if I found out quietly, either from them or some third party, and nothing more is ever said about it, it would be business as usual...

[RansomOttawa]

I do not think you read, or if you did, understood my post.

Judging by your subsequent posts in this thread, I submit that I understood your post just fine.

If you cannot understand that, my explaining further will not enlighten you.

In my experience, that's just a long-winded way of saying "because I say so." So be it. Your concession is acknowledged. Have a good one.

[Cinnamontea]

There very few places that aren’t pro-gay.

I don't think that's true, but even so, the ones to boycott are the ones that are vocal about their support (especially in their advertising) and, particularly, the ones who give big bucks to pro-gay (i.e., anti-Christian) causes. That narrows the field considerably.

If Christians aren't willing to be careful about where they spend their money, which is a relatively easy thing to do, then we really can't complain, can we?