Hallmark joins the 'overthrow of America'
In my best faux European accent - Our operatives tells me that we were able to elicit Hallmark Greeting Cards in our plans to overturn Christian values in America. With them selling cards congratulating gay couples on their marriages, nothing can stop us now.
Okay that was corny but I only did it to give a gist of the mindset of the anti-gay industry. Apparently they are all up in arms with Hallmark's decision to start selling gay marriage greeting cards.
In fact, the American Family Association will be launching a boycott:
Today, the right-wing American Family Association (AFA) announced a protest of Hallmark for its decision to start selling gay marriage greeting cards. AFA wants Hallmark to “stop promoting a lifestyle that is not only unhealthy, but is also illegal in 48 states.” From the protest site:
We’ve all given or received Hallmark Cards – remember their slogan – “when you care enough to send the very best.” But promoting same-sex marriage for profit is not the very best for families or our nation.
Hallmark is a private company obviously driven by greed. Let them know you do not appreciate Hallmark promoting a lifestyle which is illegal in 48 states. American Greeting Cards, Hallmark’s competitor, does not offer same-sex marriage cards.
Enough of the semantics already! Hallmark is selling these greeting cards because of the old reliable concept of supply and demand.
God bless capitalism. If you don't agree with the concept of gay marriage greeting cards, then don't buy any.
But don't waste your time telling that to the AFA. The group continues to push the lie that anything recognizing the fact that lgbts are normal people and should be catered to and treated as such is really part of a nefarious plan to destroy Christianity.
Somehow I just know Janet Folger is going to connect Hallmark with putting Christians in jail. Or Peter will connect the company with Folsom Street Fair.
What kills me about the AFA is their intentional deception regarding the legality of gay marriage - Hallmark is a private company obviously driven by greed. Let them know you do not appreciate Hallmark promoting a lifestyle which is illegal in 48 states.
That passage is not accidental nor is it a product of an overeager publicity writer. It's an intentional distortion.
Same-sex marriage is not illegal per se. True, it is not legally recognized but it is not against the law. The illegality of an act entails penalities such as arrests and jail terms.
I personally think that the AFA has stock in Hallmark, especially when one considers how successful their boycott against McDonalds is going.
I'm expecting Hallmark's sales to go through the roof.
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"Somehow I just know Janet Folger is going to connect Hallmark with putting Christians in jail. Or Peter will connect the company with Folsom Street Fair."
OR WORSE!...
Think of the millions of mothers with hungry children in mile long checkout lines at the supermarket who will be FORCED to go back to the card isle upon realizing that the ‘perfect’ greeting card they just bought wasn’t so perfect after all…it was a Hallmark!
The boycott of McDonald's has gone so well that the stockholders might get an increase the dividend this year. It appears that Hallmark is a privately owned family company, from what I was able to determine. Perhaps the Hall family can tell the AFA what family really is all about.
I know whos' cards I'm going to be buying from now on and the name begins with an H!
“Ask them to stop promoting a lifestyle that is not only unhealthy, but is also illegal in 48 states.”
What if the person we’re complaining to happens to be gay, should we then continue to refer to them as a “lifestyle” who is “illegal in 48 states?”
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Ok, check me out I’m Janet Folger:
"What’s next Hallmark, 'Happy Hateful and Homophobic Christian Day' cards?
And you know what comes after that? Hallmark cards that can read your mind! Mark my words, if the homosexual agenda has its way, you won’t even have to say you’re offended by such a card, as soon as you think it, the card will pick it up, send a signal to the gay mafia, and you’ll be arrested on the spot!"
Emproph, I have said it once and I will say it again:
PLEASE DON'T GIVE THAT CRAZY WOMAN ANY IDEAS!! LOL
"PLEASE DON'T GIVE THAT CRAZY WOMAN ANY IDEAS!!"
Crazy - definitely
Woman - I seriously doubt it
"She" might be able to fool the so-called "christians" and conservatives, but "she" doesn't fool me.
"She" sweats all the time, and "she" sweats like a man - whether it be medication-induced, I'm not for sure.
LOL Emproph - you could definitely be a ghost writer for Janet Folger, because that hallucination was unmistakably Janet.
wow, these people are really nuts "illegal" ? Not quite, more like a-legal, as in not recognized by law whatsoever. Murder is illegal, you can be arrested for even attempting to murder someone, even, in some instances, for saying you're going to murder someone. But you cannot be arrested for saying you're going to marry the same sex, nor for having a wedding ceremony.
If the boycott of McDonalds is any indication of how sucessful this one will be, soon we're going to see companies begging for the AFA to boycott them too so their stock and sales will increase!
I think that what I find ironic about this whole thing is that the people who support the AFA are also the kinds of people who think capitalism and a free market with little or no regulation are God's gifts to the economic world. But if a company suddenly makes a market decision to attract more LGBT people's money, suddenly it's "greed" and a bad thing.
Personally, I'm both impressed and surprised that Hallmark feels there's enough of a market and sufficient potential profits to make this new line of cards a worthwhile venture. And in the end, I wonder if that's what really underlies the AFA's (and others') fears. If this line of cards and similar ones really take off, it's just another strong sign that the so-called "culture war" is coming to an end soon -- and not in their favor.
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