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OttoDestruct
Join Date: 2002-11-08 Member: 7790Members
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Saw this on fark
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<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Southern Baptists ended an eight-year boycott of the Walt Disney Co. (DIS) for violating "moral righteousness and traditional family values" in a vote on the final day of the faith's annual convention Wednesday.
"We believe for the boycott to be effective, it had to have a beginning and an ending," said Gene Mims, chairman of the Southern Baptist Convention (search) committee that put the Disney resolution before some 12,000 members at the meeting.
SBC delegates also passed a resolution that encourages parents to investigate their children's public schools to determine whether they are too accepting of homosexuality.
The Disney resolution, passed at the SBC's 1997 convention in Dallas, called for Southern Baptists to refrain from patronizing Disney theme parks and Disney products, mainly because of the entertainment company's decision to give benefits to companions of **** employees.
"We felt like it was time to end it. We're hopeful Disney will do what the resolution calls for," Mims added.
The resolution states Disney should serve "families of America by providing only those products that affirm traditional family values."
Southern Baptists should also continue to monitor the "products and policies of the Disney Company," according to the resolution, which also urged members to "practice continued discernment regarding all entertainment products from all sources."
Officials at Burbank, Calif.-based Disney did not immediately have a comment.
"We have cost them (Disney) hundreds of millions of dollars," said Wiley Gray, an SBC member from Florida, who spoke in favor of lifting the boycott because Disney had made corporate changes, including the March announcement that longtime Disney Chief Executive Michael Eisner (search) would leave the company in October.
A spokesman for The Human Rights Campaign, a Washington-based **** rights advocacy group, said Disney continues to be one of more than 8,200 companies that offer domestic partner benefits to **** employees.
Southern Baptists also came out in support of stem cell research that did not require the destruction of human embryos or put them at risk in obtaining human stem cells.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Southern Baptists ended an eight-year boycott of the Walt Disney Co. (DIS) for violating "moral righteousness and traditional family values" in a vote on the final day of the faith's annual convention Wednesday.
"We believe for the boycott to be effective, it had to have a beginning and an ending," said Gene Mims, chairman of the Southern Baptist Convention (search) committee that put the Disney resolution before some 12,000 members at the meeting.
SBC delegates also passed a resolution that encourages parents to investigate their children's public schools to determine whether they are too accepting of homosexuality.
The Disney resolution, passed at the SBC's 1997 convention in Dallas, called for Southern Baptists to refrain from patronizing Disney theme parks and Disney products, mainly because of the entertainment company's decision to give benefits to companions of **** employees.
"We felt like it was time to end it. We're hopeful Disney will do what the resolution calls for," Mims added.
The resolution states Disney should serve "families of America by providing only those products that affirm traditional family values."
Southern Baptists should also continue to monitor the "products and policies of the Disney Company," according to the resolution, which also urged members to "practice continued discernment regarding all entertainment products from all sources."
Officials at Burbank, Calif.-based Disney did not immediately have a comment.
"We have cost them (Disney) hundreds of millions of dollars," said Wiley Gray, an SBC member from Florida, who spoke in favor of lifting the boycott because Disney had made corporate changes, including the March announcement that longtime Disney Chief Executive Michael Eisner (search) would leave the company in October.
A spokesman for The Human Rights Campaign, a Washington-based **** rights advocacy group, said Disney continues to be one of more than 8,200 companies that offer domestic partner benefits to **** employees.
Southern Baptists also came out in support of stem cell research that did not require the destruction of human embryos or put them at risk in obtaining human stem cells.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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Disney is in difficult financial straits at the moment. It wouldn't surprise me if they did.
It's a surprise to me that they ended the boycott.
Then we can do anything there. I say we put up large billboards that say "**** Marriage Rules" and stuff, and we allow stem cell research on our Island and actively invite people there to carry it out and stuff.
See if they can bouycott a nation. They can't! Muahahahaha! WHAT WOULD THEY DO THEN?!
(I'm trying to get myself non-violently excommunicated from religions. for fun.)
Then we can do anything there. I say we put up large billboards that say "**** Marriage Rules" and stuff, and we allow stem cell research on our Island and actively invite people there to carry it out and stuff.
See if they can bouycott a nation. They can't! Muahahahaha! WHAT WOULD THEY DO THEN?!
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Let me be the nation's leader <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Oh, @topic:
Anyone involved in actions caused by religious motives which have any negative influence on the economy should be shot.
I guess that pretty much sums up what I think about it ^^
Then we can do anything there. I say we put up large billboards that say "**** Marriage Rules" and stuff, and we allow stem cell research on our Island and actively invite people there to carry it out and stuff.
See if they can bouycott a nation. They can't! Muahahahaha! WHAT WOULD THEY DO THEN?!
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Pfft, stickyman if you want to do that just go up to the Pope and call him a bigot, that will pretty much alienate you from every major religion that actually holds any sway over anything.
It's usually called sanctions. And would be enacted shortly after they accused you of all being satanical fascist communists (so what if it's an oxymoron?).
Boycotts are one of the nicer ways that people can choose to display their distaste with something. I rather prefer it to, say, convincing a government to disallow legal marriage between four-star people and deny them the associated benefits. Oh wait, they did that too...
(Not supposed to evade the filters, so one might as well have fun with them)
It's usually called sanctions. And would be enacted shortly after they accused you of all being satanical fascist communists (so what if it's an oxymoron?).
Boycotts are one of the nicer ways that people can choose to display their distaste with something. I rather prefer it to, say, convincing a government to disallow legal marriage between four-star people and deny them the associated benefits. Oh wait, they did that too...
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A relatively small group of southern baptists wouldn't be able to do squat to the Isle Of Awesome. It's got "Awesome" in it's name. And we can all live there, and grow sheep and cows and dogs and horses. And cyndane can bring her spider.
As long as it's kept in a cage and kept far, far away from me.
Anyway, on topic, how exactly are Disneyland "promoting" unmoral behaviour? Leaving aside your actual beliefs at the moment, they're not exactly campaigning for every country in the world to follow suit, hell, I wouldn't have even known about it until these guys threw a hissy fit.
Aren't they just giving the **** rights movement even more positive publicity, outside of their own insanely odd circle?
Then we can do anything there. I say we put up large billboards that say "**** Marriage Rules" and stuff, and we allow stem cell research on our Island and actively invite people there to carry it out and stuff.
See if they can bouycott a nation. They can't! Muahahahaha! WHAT WOULD THEY DO THEN?!
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Yea, better research nuclear weapons, too, or we might suddenly have "other" WMD and get invaded by our former neighbors.
Oh and you'd better believe that the nation of awesome would be put under sanctions. These radical right would start twisting Bush's arm and then they'd start linking Awesome Nationals to terrorism and then for America's safety we'd have to be straightened out.
EDIT: Wait did I really find a legitimate use for the words: Awesome Nationalists? SCORE!
The Awesome Airforce could not be understocked.
Start sending money to my paypal account cabewse [at] gmail [dot] com, and I'll buy the island!
Start sending money to my paypal account cabewse [at] gmail [dot] com, and I'll buy the island! <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
The seeds of corruption are already sewn.
Start sending money to my paypal account cabewse [at] gmail [dot] com, and I'll buy the island! <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
The seeds of corruption are already sewn. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
I'm not surprised that Caboose is the one doin' the plantin'.
Download, listen and laugh. For on the morrow we begin the revolution!
<a href='http://sio.midco.net/selcock/Rhetoric.mp3' target='_blank'> Rhetoric </a>
LETS END THE OPPRESSION!
YAY
now im just as one sided as they are
If you want a song, I'm happy to provide one.
<b><span style='color:red'>LANGUAGE WARNING</span></b>
<a href='http://frontalot.untimelydeath.com/mc_frontalot_-_i_heart_fags.mp3' target='_blank'>Download</a>
<!--QuoteBegin-MC Frontalot - I Heart F**s+--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (MC Frontalot - I Heart F**s)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->I love ****
because I am a san franciscan
if you're dissing on my homos
then this censure's what you're risking
(I'm insisting on containing my temper but listen up):
you shouldn't ought to be intolerant about who queers like to ****!
**** are great, they've got hundreds of uses
you can see them on TV explaining what puce is
abstruse is the world but very simple is the homo
he or she is anyone who's keen to do another one more so
than the opposite, follow?
**** are great 'cause almost every single one swallows
or so I'm led to believe, lesbians also I've heard of,
not to mention non-gender-identified spivaks seeking nerd love,
and I've spurned just about everything there is
cause I was born here, and here's where I live
here i give you this advice, love a *** today
either up close and personally, or from far away
see **** are ****, and ****'s a good adjective
it means like happy and high, but you had to just
shy me away from the topic of my ***-love
something maybe that you're lacking in? don't get mad just
cause you don't have such a big heart as frontalot
you could love **** too, you already think dykes are hot
why not come on down to the street fair,
(there's) **** in chaps plus rough trade to meet there,
some of whom been barebacking it in back alleys for years
yo I promise if you visit you could meet some queers
and if you love even just one, hooray
if you don't, well I hope you enjoyed your stay
and I hope you go on your merry way
with the chorus of my song slowly turning you ****
and you don't love ****, this much is apparent
you're having nightmares about them every time you get your hair cut
you stare what you suspect could be a queer man
in the eye, in the mirror, enzymes coming out your fear gland
he's got scissors near your eardrums
you might lose your hearing you don't watch it with these queer ones
and here comes your presidential cheerleader now
so disturbed by the marriages in my home town
that he's got to take the tip top law in the land down
scribble on it: "I hate homos, big bad frown."
put it back up, be like "what? it's better!
y'all were with me a second ago
when I said that marriage was threatened
and it was! under siege by these villains
can you believe they wanted to gang up and have children?
there would be an army of them, teeming and thronging
tempting every American to give in to forbidden longing
i thought they couldn't reproduce, that was their weakness!
now what are we gonna do? they're gonna seek just
treatment under the law, dammit that's like saying
it's okay to be ****! or a lesbian! hey man,
you can not say that. society would crumble and fall apart."
i'll think about that on the BART
gladdening every inch of the ride
to be on the way to the where I reside
not just a place where I keep my stuff
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Any company that endorses, supports and helps fund pornography studios should be boycotted.
Too much corruption in Disney. Do you really think thats what Walt originally intended?
After all those Cuban children he's been eating, I don't think he's sane enough to to believe in anymore.
oh well now its here <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
uea i was kinda annoyed at this group as well.
Apparently love thy neighbor isnt one of their family values.
Depends whether your neighbour's male or not.
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HAHAHAHAHAHA now that was funny <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->