Rev. Flip Benham’s Operation Save America and The American Family Association are just two examples of overly zealous religious conservative organizations that meddle in the businesses of corporate America’s financial, budget and marketing operations in the name of their moral and religious idealism. They do not speak for all of America. We are not Iraq or Iran, Afghanistan or China, North Korea or Africa. Religious groups should not hold political or religious authority over America, its people or its corporations. Once again we see the hand of religious fundamentalist dipping into a cookie jar that is not theirs exclusively. And what makes it worst is…that they have multitude of followers. The same misled idealism and brainwashed mentality led by the Rev. Jim Jones that led to the Jones Town Massacre in Johnsonburg, Guyana.
Freedom to choose is ours. That is what freedom is; a choice and the will to choose as individual souls that we are. So, this cookie jar is ours and not unconditionally for the religious conservative fundamentalist. I strongly object to their meddling. Neither Wal-Mart nor any other corporate entity should bow down to every religious whimper. What will be their target next, your congressman that you voted to office, the mom and pop stores, schools, your programmed TV, how and when your police force responds and to whom, what the media tells you and what it does not…maybe they will take it right into our court system where bias and prejudice already exists, when does their meddling end.
Operation Save America and The American Family Association were planning a post Thanksgiving boycott on Wal-Mart because of the company’s membership to the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce and because they donated $60,000 to Out and Equal, which promotes gay-rights advances in the workplace. Wal-Mart conceded with a statement “the company had agreed to stay away from controversial causes."
Corporations are entities that employ a diverse multicultural workforce. Does this mean that the religious fundamentalist boycotts the whole of diverse multicultural workforce…or are they just promoting hatred of homosexuality by trying to take an economic weapon to Wal-Mart’s financial portfolio? Diversity means just that…couples living together, but not married, unwed mothers and fathers, singles, divorcees, gays and homosexuals, married couples and couples with children. This is the fabric of our society. Not one of these peoples is less than the other. In either case, religious conservatives have no business in supporting boycotts on corporate American in the name of religious morals.
If hatred for homosexuality or any other “morality" takes a political or economic stance to the level of global markets as the religious fundamentalist conservative believes it should, than those same fundamentalist are no different than terrorist with a personal agenda, destroying the basic constitutional right to liberty, freedom and the pursuit of happiness. Our constitution did not add…only if you believe as we do. All mankind living and breathing this earth air are created equal to the right to live in peace in accordance to their own beliefs without infringing on the beliefs of others. We do not need religious conservatives, the government or anyone else to tell us what we can or cannot do. Religious conservatives, stay in the realm of your own institutions, in your own living realities and in your own beliefs. Freedom of choice is ours to make. This cookie is ours…
Sara Margarita Medina-Ramos
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» left by Anonymous (2 years 340 days ago.)
Just as you say you are free to choose - I believe that is what the "religious right" is doing...taking back their cookie jar thru the freedom of buying goods from whomever they choose...so I am sure you support that freedom too, right? Respond to this comment
» left by Sara M. Medina-Ramos(15) Sara M. Medina-Ramos (2 years 271 days ago.)
Freedom isn't an exercise of mal intent to economically impact those who do not agree with our idologies, politics or religious beliefs. Respond to this comment
» left by Sara M. Medina-Ramos(15) Sara M. Medina-Ramos (2 years 271 days ago.)
Freedom isn't an exercise of mal intent to economically impact those who do not agree with our idologies, politics or religious beliefs. Respond to this comment
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