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Conservative Groups Call for P&G Boycott

CINCINNATI - A pair of conservative groups are calling for a boycott of two Procter & Gamble Co. products because the organizations say P&G is tacitly supporting gay marriage.

The American Family Association, of Tupelo, Miss., and Focus on the Family, based in Colorado Springs, Colo., said they urged their supporters this week to refuse to buy Crest toothpaste and Tide detergent, two of P&G's biggest selling products.

P&G spokesman Doug Shelton said the organizations have wrongly characterized the company's support of repealing a Cincinnati charter amendment to mean that it is supporting same-sex marriage.

P&G has given $10,000 in support of a Nov. 2 ballot issue for repeal of a 1993 city charter amendment that forbids Cincinnati to enact or enforce laws based on sexual orientation. P&G said it believes the amendment makes it harder to attract visitors and potential employees to Cincinnati and that it subjects gay people to potential discrimination in workplaces and housing.

Federated Department Stores Inc., a Cincinnati-based corporation that owns the Macy's and Bloomingdale's stores, also has given $20,000 in support of the campaign.

"P&G has not supported gay marriage. The definition of marriage is a subject that will be debated and decided by voters," Shelton said Friday. "We've not taken a position on that — and we won't."

Activists say the amendment, upheld on appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court (news - web sites) in 1998, denies special legal protections to gays and lesbians. Sixty-two percent of Cincinnati's voters approved the amendment in 1993. The Nov. 2 ballot issue is the first time voters have had an opportunity to decide whether to keep or repeal it.

James C. Dobson, founder and chairman of Focus on the Family, urged listeners of his syndicated radio show Thursday to boycott the P&G products. Dobson said P&G's statements and policies support the gay-activist notion that restricting marriage to one man and one woman is discriminatory.

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

The American Family Association has established a Web site in support of the protest.
"Procter & Gamble, to my knowledge, is the first corporation in this country that has given money for a political campaign pushing the homosexual political agenda," said the Rev. Donald E. Wildmon, founder of the American Family Association.

Sudiegirl's opinion(s)?

1. First of all, Donald E. Wildmon is a schmuck, pure and simple. That man could read bad things into anything! He's the jerk who got one of my favorite cartoons, Ralph Bakshi's "Mighty Mouse", cancelled because he THOUGHT he saw Mighty Mouse snorting a powdery substance. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, Rev.

2. Buying/not buying toothpaste and other P&G products is really stupid. As a matter of fact, why are people even arguing about gay marriage? If they're committed, it doesn't matter to me and to a whole heck of a lot of other people, for that matter. This is persecution in dental form, and I don't like it.

3. What people do in their home is their own business, and in the Bible it clearly states, "Hate the sin and love the sinner." Don't these yahoos realize that if they boycott and mess things up for P&G employees, possibly causing them to lose jobs due to reduction in force, they are just messing up the fiber of our country even more? DUH!

Power to the people, y'all, and BUY CREST IN BULK!
Sudiegirl