Conservatives urge P&G boycott (too gay friendly)

[UpInArms]

http://money.cnn.com/2004/09/17/news/fortune500/pg_gay_rights/

NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Conservative Christian groups are urging a boycott of two of consumer product maker Procter & Gamble's key products, charging the company is aligning itself with gay rights groups, according to a published report.

The New York Times said Friday that James Dobson of Focus on the Family and the Rev. Donald Wildmon of the American Family Association are angry at P&G for a statement on the company's internal Web site opposing an anti-gay rights statute in its hometown of Cincinnati. The law exempts gays and lesbians from special civil rights protection.

The two influential conservatives charge that by opposing the Cincinnati statute, the company is joining a push to allow same-sex marriage. They are urging supporters to boycott Crest toothpaste and Tide laundry detergent.


"For Procter & Gamble to align itself with radical groups committed to redefining marriage in our country is an affront to its customers," Dobson told the paper.

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Back to the 80s (and RayGun) again!

[blueknight]

1. they will never back this

p&g stock is too good. freepers love p&g, they make a ton of money off of it!

[CarolynEC]

2. Well, for me there is some good news...

... I've been a "Crest kid" all my life, and generally buy Tide unless another brand is on sale for a buck or more less. Think I'll write them a letter, saying I'm a long-time customer and appreciate their stance in defense of fairness. :)

[MrBenchley]

3. Wasn't this the same bunch of fuckwits who used

to try to pretend the P&G logo meant they were devil-worshipers?

[MrMonk]

11. Fundies have a long-term jones for P&G

http://www.silcom.com/~barnowl/chain-letter/archive/pe1986-09_proctor.htm

[TheDebbieDee]

12. I've always suspected that the Devil-worshipping claims..............

came from a group of over-zealous Amway distributers - they're trying to weasel-in on P&G's market share.

[yellowcanine]

42. Yep that's them. Devil worshippers + Gay lovers - Wow! What will they

do next? Good thing Dobson and his merry band of book burners is catching this stuff for us.

[smirkymonkey]

4. This is just pure hate and ugliness.

What the F**k is with these people anyway? I am straight, but I simply don't get the "straight" conservatives OBSESSION with the sex lives of others.

[davidinalameda]

5. I can't wait for Dobson and the rest of them to just stroke out

when they get their panties in a bunch over stuff like this

[progressivebydesign]

6. You will know them by their smell...

.. great, the wacko religious nuts will eschew soap and toothpaste. As if they aren't disgusting enough already. Why do they hate America?

[Cobalt Violet]

20. Yuck!

:puke:

[TheDebbieDee]

7. Don't forget the P&G satanic worship meme...................

because of the ritualistic symbols contained in the logo for the company - a man/face in the moon in a field of either 13 or 7 stars.

[arwalden]

8. If The "Satanist" Label Won't Stick... Accuse Them Of Being Gay-Friendly

Remember when their logo used to be the "Moon-and-stars" and everyone was claiming that the CEO had appeared on Donahue (or Sally, or Ophrah...) and had admitted to being a Satanist.

[slackmaster]

31. You beat me to it!

I remember the incident well. P&G sued some RW Xtian wackos for defamation and won.

In closing statements P&G's attorney referred to the allegations as "ridiculous lies". He was right.

[maxsolomon]

9. you know cincinnati is bad when

P & G, they of the 2 square block private park with a chain around it & renta a cops chasing everyone out in the middle of downtown cincinnati, is a force for tolerance & liberty.

my hometown never ceases to lower the bar.

[Barkley]

37. Why is Cincinnati so conservative?

I grew up in Cincinnati in the 1960-70s but Ive lived in L.A.thereafter.
I teach economics summer sessions at NKU in the summer.

At the end of every summer, I'm alway ready to leave.

Growing up, I just don't remember it being so conservative: Ronald Reagan Freeway -- L.A. doesn't have that and Reagan was citizen of L.A.

I've even seen custom-made Gulf War vet license plates in Cincinnati.
Of all the millions of cars I've seen in L.A. I've 'neva' seen that one!

What happened?

[RobertDevereaux]

10. Just more bushwa from Dobson and Wildmon... n/t

[trueblew]

13. Next up for boycott...

Rep. David Dreier

[DeadHead67]

14. I'm going to go right out and BUY SOME TIDE AND CREST. . .

. . .even though I send my laundry out and don't use laundry soap. It did however help me decide what my next CASE of toothpaste will be.

[LynneSin]

18. Me too!! P&G all the way

:bounce:

If it's good enough to piss off the religious right, then it's good enough for me to use!!

[BJ]

15. Why doesn't Dobson ask Congressman Ed Schrock?

Ed should have first hand knowledge of the "gay" lifestyle.

In fact he knows so much he's not running for re-election in his heavily reactionary Republican Virginia Beach-centered Congressional District.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

16. I wonder what David Drier has to say about this!

[napi21]

17. Don't these fools realize that this is such a SAMALL piece of

the P&G product line? Even if this gets BIG publicity, it won't affect P&G's salaes enough to even notice! This is just plane dumb.

[Norquist Nemesis]

19. The company's "internal" web site?

Does that mean that it is only accessible with a logon/password given by the company to its employees? :shrug: If so, who's the mole?

[TommyO]

21. Cool, I'm glad that...

I'm already a user of Crest and Tide products.

Crest's new Citrus Breeze (orange) toothpaste is great, especially when followed up by the Citrus Listerine (not a P&G product).

I'm also a regular user of Tide HE detergents in my front-loading washer/dryer combo.

Take that you bastards at FOF and AFA. Dobson and Wildmon, rot in the hell that you're creating for yourselves!

[RebelOne]

22. I've been boycotting P&G for years.

Only because they test on animals.

[RT_Fanatic]

23. No need for a fundie boycott

because most of them don't brush their teeth or wash their clothes anyway!:puke:

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

24. Hey fundies, don't forget to boycott these:

Alldays and Always feminine hygiene
Aussie haircare
Balsam haircolor
Bold laundry detergent
Bounce dryer sheets
Bounty paper towels
Camay soap
Cascade dishwashing detergent
Charmin toilet paper
Cheer laundry detergent
Cover Girl cosmetics
Crest dental care
Dawn dishwashing liquid
Downy fabric softener
Dreft laundry detergent
Dryel home dry cleaning
Era laundry detergent
Eukanuba pet foods
Febreze fabric spray
Fixodent denture products
Folgers coffee
Gain laundry detergent
Giorgio fragrances
Gleem toothpaste
Hairpainting hair color
Head & Shoulders shampoo
Helmut Lang Skin fragrances
Herbal Essence hair care
Hugo-Hugo Boss fragrances
Hydrience haircolor
Iams pet foods
Infusium hair care
Inner Science hair care
Ivory soaps
Joy dishwashing liquid
Lasting Color hair color
Loving Care hair color
Luvs disposable diapers
Max Factor cosmetics
Men's Choice hair color
Metamucil laxative
Millstone coffee
Miss Clairol hair color
Mr. Clean disinfectant
Natural Instincts hair color
Nice 'n Easy hair color
Noxema skin care
Nuances hair highlighting
NyQuil cold relief
Olay skin care
Old Spice shaving products
Pampers disposable diapers
Pantene hair care
Pepto-Bismol antacid
Pert Plus hair care
Physique hair care
Prilosec OTC heartburn medication
Pringles chips
Puffs tissues
PUR water filtration systems
Scope mouthwash
Secret antiperspirant
Sunny Delight fruit drink
Sure antiperspirant
Swiffer cleaning products
Tampax tampons
Tide laundry care
Thermacare heat wraps
Touch of Sun hair highlighting
Torengos tortilla chips
Ultress hair color
Vicks cold relief products
Vidal Sassoon hair care
XtremeFX hair color
Zest deodorant soap
Actonel, Asacol, Dantrium, Didronel, Macrobid and Macrodantin prescription drugs

[yardwork]

25. Hey, I use a lot of that stuff! Is that all P&G?

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

26. Yup

And those are just the North American products. There are even more globally.

I've worked on advertising for about 16 of their products and can attest that P&G Headquarters is the most secure facility I have ever been. If they had handled RNC security, no protester would have made it into MSQ.

BTW, they took the moon 'n stars logo off their products - the big wusses - but didn't remove the 12-foot-tall relief of it it that graces the elevator banks in their main building.

[Zynx]

34. I'd like to see them survive without that stuff.

[Zorra]

27. These christianist hate groups never stop persecuting innocent people.

They are the same people that, historically, murdered everyone that did not believe the same way that they do. Burning heretics at the stake. These people use religion for profit, and their religion is based on hatred and intolerance. Their religion has absolutely nothing to do with the teachings of Jesus.

Believe me, if these people could get away with killing gays, and anyone else that does not agree with them, they'd be out there zealously hunting them down and lynching them right at this moment.

[kwolf68]

28. How about buy products you like

These nitwits are making a mockery out of free-market economics. I was always taught (I am an Economics major) that companies “won” in the market by producing the best product at the most competitive price.

We are slowly getting to the point where ANY program, song, musician, movie, tv show that in anyway deviates from a right-wing perspective will be protested and shutdown no matter the quality of song, musician, movie, tv show. This is an affront to market economics.

What is bought and sold by the consumers should be valued based on the quality of the product not some covert political agenda. These people are gross.

[kwolf68]

29. How about buy products you like

These nitwits are making a mockery out of free-market economics. I was always taught (I was an Economics major) that companies “won” in the market by producing the best product at the most competitive price.

We are slowly getting to the point where ANY program, song, musician, movie, tv show that in anyway deviates from a right-wing perspective will be protested and shutdown no matter the quality of song, musician, movie, tv show. This is an affront to market economics.

What is bought and sold by the consumers should be valued based on the quality of the product not some covert political agenda. These people are gross.

[Politicub]

30. "Conservatives" won't be happy until

the trains leave to take all of the fags to camps to be slaughtered. That would please the right greatly. I wish they would be honest about their ultimate goal and not pussyfoot around it. But, the hallmark of the right is lying.

I fear for the direction our country is heading. The GOP is getting too fast and loose with it's anti-family bigotry. We have made so many advances in being treated as equals, and Bush and his asshole cronies come along and try to destroy every step forward. It's shameful. Either they will win out and get their way and get to write history as the GOP sees fit, or history will look back on this time and declare the GOP as immoral, and position them alongside the segregationists and the KKK.

[BiggJawn]

32. Poor Proctor and Gamble....

OK, they're an EVIL mega-corporation, but to have to spend time fending off this bullshit.

Seems like every few years the Fundies decide to go after P&G. Last time I remember, it was because of their "moon" trademark, an OCCULT symbol that had "666" hidden in it! P&G supports the Church of Satan!(gasp!)

All bullshit. Wonder how much Lever Bros gives these nut-jobs to start this shit?

[Zynx]

33. I've owned P&G stock since September of 2000.

It's been a good performer and now it is doing battle with bigots. This is a gift that keeps on giving.

[dbackjon]

35. Time to buy some Crest

[demoman123]

39. It will make you gay. :) n/t

[Neecy]

36. must be fund-raisin' time

These hateful crackpots use the gay community for one purpose and one purpose only: to line their pockets with the money of their often destitute followers.

I'm sure they'll both send out fundraising letters soon trumpeting their oh-so-scary boycott of P&G and shaking people down for more money for their Krazy Kristian Krusades agin' homosexuals. They do it all the time.

If Jesus ever does return, these types will be the first ones he'll drive from the temple.

[Barkley]

38. Cincinnati actually petitioned for the Olympic Games

Cincinnati wants to be a 'big city' but the mentality of the people is astounding.

Its hard for P&G and other Cincinnati firms like Krogers to recruit qualified people to come live there with Title XII which actually permits discrimination based on SEXUAL ORIENTATION of any kind: straight, gay, bi etc.

The gay boycott has cost the city millions in lost conventions.

With a pop. of only 325,000, cheap housing and essentially only two racial groups Cincinnati should be a much better place to live.

But Cincinnati has all the problems of a 'big city' (e.g. riots, racism, inequality, traffic congestion, crime, pollution, police brutality, civic corruption, poor public schools etc) and few of the advantages: ranked by Forbs Magazine 39th out of 40 for singles.

[Kat45]

40. Are those two dickheads still around?

Hadn't heard their names in a long time; not too happy to hear them again.

[Flammable Materials]

41. <rocky the squirrel>"Again?!?"</rocky the squirrel> n/t

[cyr330]

43. uggh

Quite frankly, Donald Wildmon & all of his supporters should be lined up and shot by firing squad. I'm really not a violent person, but extreme individuals call for extreme measures. . . .