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I basically stole Jacquelyn's post about this.

I joined the American Family Association mailing list a few years ago when they were protesting Kraft's advertising "support" of the Gay Olympics. The AMA is a right-wing, fundamentalist Christian hate group that gets up in arms about the "gay agenda." The problem is, they're a relatively successful group when it comes to organizing boycotts.  I have since used the e-mail list as a way to keep in touch with their latest campaigns, in order to call up and do the exact opposite of what they'd like: telling various companies that I support their advertising, or whatever.

The AMA's current "Action Alert" is targeting Heinz for an add featuring a gay family. The website is here, if you'd like to read more about the issue and sign up to be notified of future opportunities to thwart their hate-based campaigns (warning: there is some sick, hateful, twisted, un-Christian vitriol on this website).

A YouTube version of the ad is below. Please take a moment today to call Heinz's corporate headquarters toll-free and let them know you support them for using advertisements that feature non-hetero-normative families. Tell your friends! You may have to wait on hold for a bit, but remember that it's because of all the homophobic hate-mongers tying up the lines - don't give up!

HEINZ's number is 1-800-255-5750, or feel free to e-mail them (info here) instead (thanks, [personal profile] were_duck!). Then, tonight you can have a celebratory barbecue with your newly-purchased Heinz products!


See? What could be more despicable and evil than good, old-fashioned family values, like a loving parent who makes meals for their polite, well-behaved children, and kisses their hard-working spouse goodbye for the day?

Date: 2008-06-25 02:10 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] symwyse.livejournal.com
Oh, and don't forget the cool part: we can summon the Wrath of GAWD!

Date: 2008-06-25 02:12 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jackshoegazer.livejournal.com
That's probably what's got the religious peeps all pissed. No matter what they do, God doesn't show Himself to them. You gays have a parade and God sends a hurricane!

Also, in case you haven't gotten your Gay Agenda Newsletter, you also want equal rights for marriage because that's the first step on the slippery slope to marrying children, animals, corpses, and various combinations thereof.

Date: 2008-06-25 02:20 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] symwyse.livejournal.com
I should renew my subscription- apparently when I do, I get my very own Gay (Pocket) Agenda, complete with super fabulous stickers and a pink, marabou-feathered pen.

Date: 2008-06-25 11:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] castleclear.livejournal.com
In medieval Europe (male) homosexuality was also thought to be the cause of earthquakes.

Date: 2008-06-27 12:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jackshoegazer.livejournal.com
I also read that male homosexuality was considered virile and 'manly' in Roman times. No wonder Rome fell! :P

Date: 2008-06-27 03:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] castleclear.livejournal.com
From what I've read, Romans considered men & women naturally bisexual; however, crossdressing males or other "effeminancy" was looked down apart; thus, as in U.S. prisons today, it was important and manly to Roman men to be the "insertive" partner in all sexual relations.

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