Comments on: In Defense of the Boycotters https://byronharvey.com/in-defense-of-the-boycotters/ Fri, 08 Apr 2022 18:42:47 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Esdraelon https://byronharvey.com/in-defense-of-the-boycotters/#comment-1943 Sat, 04 Aug 2012 19:45:53 +0000 http://www.byron-harvey.com/?p=3697#comment-1943 Byron, thank you for the correction, I could hem and haw and say I meant the ‘corporate world’, but obviously I got ‘ahead’ of myself. 🙂

Esd

]]> By: Byron https://byronharvey.com/in-defense-of-the-boycotters/#comment-1942 Sat, 04 Aug 2012 16:52:29 +0000 http://www.byron-harvey.com/?p=3697#comment-1942 In reply to Mark Merritt.

Now THAT is good!

]]> By: Byron https://byronharvey.com/in-defense-of-the-boycotters/#comment-1941 Sat, 04 Aug 2012 16:51:31 +0000 http://www.byron-harvey.com/?p=3697#comment-1941 In reply to Esdraelon.

One quick comment on your excellent words; Truett Cathy will be disappointed to hear that he is gone, because the old man is 91 years old, alive and well, and founding new businesses (he started a pizza joint recently, and I’m sure it’s not open on Sunday).

]]> By: Esdraelon https://byronharvey.com/in-defense-of-the-boycotters/#comment-1940 Sat, 04 Aug 2012 01:36:35 +0000 http://www.byron-harvey.com/?p=3697#comment-1940 Well….all things considered, here are a few more to consider:
Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos waded into a developing corporate culture war over gay marriage Friday with a $2.5-million donation to keep same-sex unions legal in Washington state, becoming the latest in a list of high-profile executives to take public stands on a hot election issue.
Bezos joins Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates and companies like Starbucks and Nike with support to the campaign to uphold Washington’s law. And while fast-food chain Chick-fil-A set off a furor opposing same-sex unions this month, other companies — including big names like General Mills and Nabisco — are brushing off fears that support for gay marriage could hurt their bottom line.
Marc Solomon, the national campaign manager for Freedom to Marry, a New York-based group that advocates for same-sex marriage, said: “When you have some of the mainstays of corporate leadership stand up, that’s important. It sends a powerful message about where our society is right now.”
Solomon and other national advocates say the donation by Bezos and his wife, MacKenzie Bezos, is the largest publicly reported gift to support a gay marriage ballot measure, noting that some gay marriage opponents have tried to shield their donor lists. http://www.freep.com/article/20120728/NEWS07/307280044/Amazon-founder-donates-millions-to-support-gay-marriage
I just ordered a bike handlebar riser from Amazon.com a couple of weeks ago. After reading the above, that is the last product I order from Amazon. There are other vendors to get the same product from at the same price or less, as well as buy chicken sandwiches, if you don’t agree with their policies.
It is not just a ‘religious thing’ that people are opposed to same-sex marriage. Most see a man wanting to ‘marry’ another man, or a woman wanting to ‘marry’ another woman as a psychological aberration and the fact that such numbers are only in the 2-3% range of the population generally appears to bear that out, but I digress.
“Christian family values” is exactly what it says. Many Christians do not live up to those values exactly as they do not live up to other Christian values that are non-family.
The same goes about not judging others because their sins are not the same as yours.
But the fact that I sin and fall short of the values that make up the worldview of an ideal Christian, as espoused in the Scriptures, with a higher bar to seek, in no way coerces me, should I fail in upholding those views within myself, to compromise that worldview and lower that bar.
Chick-fil-A was founded upon Christian principle and the personal beliefs of F. Truett Cathy. He gave a perfect example of his perception of that principle, instead of the worldly bottom line, with his ‘Closed on Sunday’ rule that is still in effect. Just think about the hundreds of millions additional that could be stashed in the Chick coffers had this rule been dropped once he was gone from this world. Instead, the corporate strategy with Christian values has continued and success abounds for Chick-fil-A throughout the world.
Nothing has changed, and the present Mr. Cathy’s worldview has always been public knowledge. His ‘sin’ was that he dared to espouse it in public, especially to a media who plastered it all over the United States!. “How dare he!” say his opponents. ”Religion and religious values are something that is a ‘private’ thing and is not to be exhibited in public!”
Christ said that those who believe in Him would not be ashamed to state such. Once we fall for that progressive line above, we are no longer Christians, we are hypocrites.

]]> By: Shane Ryans https://byronharvey.com/in-defense-of-the-boycotters/#comment-1939 Thu, 02 Aug 2012 18:28:15 +0000 http://www.byron-harvey.com/?p=3697#comment-1939 I have just stayed away from convos about this subject matter. I believe if you a hard working American than you should be awarded the same rights as other hard working Americans. the right thing to do is accept people for who they are not what they are. that is what this country was built on. Its a shame that there has been an invisible fence dividing this country over values it was found on. If being Gay were made a religion nothing could be said or done about it.

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