Thursday, August 31, 2006
Where's Old Sam Now?
Here is an article sure to disappoint. Wal-Mart, long thought to be a strong conservative corporation, has made a dramatic move to choose sides in the cultural war over homosexuality. They have joined the National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce. I understand that the law requires certain positions on the part of interstate corporations. But, this goes beyond the law. This is alignment. I’m going to write to them and politely express my disappointment. If you want to contact them, write to their president, Rob Walton, at letters@wal-mart.com. But do it politely.
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Your link was asking me to join up with Advertising Age in order to see the article, so I just Googled and found the info elsewhere. I have discussed with some homosexuals the differences in my mind between toleration and acceptance. Sometimes there is a fine line between the two, but I agree with you that this action by Walmart has crossed the line into acceptance. I saw a list of other companies that have joined this group, and there are a good number of them that we do business with every day. Do you think this action by Walmart is something that should cause Christians to withdraw their business from these companies, or is writing letters expressing disapproval about all we can really do? I personally have never been a fan of Christian boycotts because they tend to draw more attention TO the thing I would want boycotted rather than away from it.
That last comment was from me. I forgot to sign it.
Kevin Miller
(I'd hate to be sooo anonymous that you don't even know who responded. lol.)
Kevin,
Thanks for the identification. I find boycotts tiresome. I know the argument. Economics is the only thing companies understand. I do not endorse nor start boycotts. That is why, in my blog, I said I was writing an email (which has not been answered, btw) to express my concern. This may sound like Kofi Annan hoping that Iran will stop enriching uranium, but, I do not like to commit to doing one thing or another in print. I may or may not utilize Wal-Mart. If my US or State Rep. took a position that I did not like, I might, or might not, utilize his services in the future. For the record, I do not know what my commercial position will be on this particular action by Wal-Mart. But I have registered with them that at least one of their patrons is not pleased with their action in this regard.
BTW Kevin, I did not have to join AD-AGE to get to the article. I do not know what I did, but I just went right in. Sorry if my link did not work for you.
Are there not more moral issues with Wal-Mart then Gay and Lesbian issue? Sure it gets the dander up but we tend to over look or tolerate things they sell right in front of us everyday the alcohol, condoms, cigarettes, videos, magazines, music, games rated T or M, clothing and possibly more. And we don’t want people to be fanatical about belief. But were do we learn to tolerate all of this. In our churches, Bible College within Christian families. Pastors and Churches change constitutions to make it more issue friendly. Pastors don’t preach on certain subjects because someone maybe offended. College some Bible College have real strict standers on music what you can have or listen too, I pod, cds and laptop checks for music. But video games allowed at same college, music on games is almost all bad. What’s up with that? Or within our Christian families we learn to tolerate different ideas or beliefs different standards all to keep the peace. It would be hard to step out on a limb and say boycott because there would be no place to shop. Just think of the money you would save. Could even buy a new car. And why do we refer to them as Gay and Lesbian? We look to be politically correct in all we say or do so we won’t offend. Do we really get more bees with sugar (Politically correctness) or (is saying what God says Biblically) considered to be rotten apples? Just a voice in the wilderness.
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