American Family Association urges boycott and then buycott of Wal-Mart

"To say that the American Family Association has had something of a tense relationship with retail giant Wal-Mart would be an understatement. In the past, the AFA has targeted the chain for everything from using the phrase “Happy Holidays” instead of “Merry Christmas” to sponsoring Diversity Week at Boise State University.

Last year, when Wal-Mart partnered with the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce, the AFA went ballistic and vowed that “1,000,000 families … will not shop at Wal-Mart or Sam's Club on the Friday or Saturday following Thanksgiving” because of Wal-Mart’s apparent role in furthering the homosexual agenda

The AFA eventually backed off its boycott threat once Wal-Mart pledged that it would “not make corporate contributions to support or oppose highly controversial issues unless they directly relate to our ability to serve our customers."

That seemed to placate the AFA, and now that the Human Rights Campaign is urging people not to shop at Wal-Mart because of the store’s refusal to offer domestic partner benefits to its gay and lesbian employees, AFA has come rushing to Wal-Mart’s defense:

Homosexuals have challenged traditional marriage supporters to do battle. We will now see if traditional marriage supporters accept the challenge.

Make every effort to shop at Wal-Mart this Christmas season. The gays want Wal-Mart sales to go down so they can claim victory.

Forward this to your friends and family and urge them to buy at Wal-Mart. Announce this in your Sunday School class, at church, etc. Ask your pastor to announce in church newsletters and bulletins that the homosexuals are challenging those who support traditional marriage. Tell them about the homosexual's efforts to force Wal-Mart to offer "marriage" benefits and Target's support for "marriage" benefits."

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/2007/11/battle_of_the_b.html

To steal from the RW'ers, was Wildmon and the AFA against shopping at Wal-Mart before they were for it?

Yee shall flip as yee shall flop and damned those who will work at big boxes on the sabbath and yee shall go forth and stone to death the heathens amongst us. **


** - ensure that you pick at least 60% of what you read here and keep it in your heart. Your pastor can help you with your picking and choosing. So sayeth the lord.

The honchos at Wal-Mart must view all this as live entertainment.

..on my door at all hours of the day and giving me those pamplets that "are challenging those who support traditional marriage"

Geez, it just never ends.

I'm being sarcastic, of course.